Word: cherrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...
...Cherrey angrily called the school board's purchasing department, which canceled the order. The board began an investigation into what Miami's newspapers soon dubbed "the gold-plated plumb ing caper." The elaborate fixtures had been picked out by MacArthur Principal Solomon Barnes, 36, although a salesman at the plumbing-supply house claims he had tried to get him to buy cheaper items. Johnny Jones, 46, superintendent of schools for the 225,000-pupil Dade Coun ty system, fifth largest in the nation, approved the purchase as a "special needs" requisition, which took it out of normal channels...
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