Kennedy Center whistleblowers expose leak fix Trump's chief shelved before shutdown
Former Kennedy Center employees allege that the very leak problem now being used to justify shutting down the arts institution was actually canceled from repair months ago by the same official now citing it as an urgent safety emergency.
A lawyer representing the unidentified former staffers sent internal documents and a letter to Congress on Thursday, part of growing scrutiny over President Trump's control of the Washington cultural institution, The New York Times reported. The center's main building has remained closed, with officials attributing the shutdown to worsening structural problems they say prior leadership never properly fixed.
Center executive director Matt Floca, appointed by Trump, defended the closure, saying newly discovered damage justified the sudden urgency....