After Grenell and President Donald Trump attacked the Kennedy Center’s old leadership at the White House, former center president Deborah Rutter called the claims false.
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Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell accused the art institution’s previous leadership of financial mismanagement and “fraud” during a speech at the White House on Monday evening.
“Our great new CFO went through the ’24 and ’25 budgets of the Kennedy Center and found $26 million in phantom revenue, fake revenue,” Grenell said. “It’s criminal. We’re going to refer this to the U.S. attorney’s office.”
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