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TexasTowelie

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Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:21 AM Aug 2016

Is it business or pleasure? Trustees of Medical University of South Carolina expensive splurges

Last edited Fri Aug 26, 2016, 11:48 AM - Edit history (1)

A $160 bottle of Barolo, Italy's fabled “king of wines.”

A $6,400 farewell dinner at Peninsula Grill, described by one restaurant reviewer as “unapologetically indulgent.”

A $37,430 Christmas banquet, including $5,600 for cocktails, at Charleston Place, one of the Holy City's top luxury hotels.

These are some of the perks that members of the Board of Trustees of the Medical University of South Carolina enjoy when they gather in Charleston for six or so meetings a year.

Read more: http://www.postandcourier.com/20160826/160829697/musc-board-members-rack-up-thousands-on-luxury-hotels-meals

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Is it business or pleasure? Trustees of Medical University of South Carolina expensive splurges (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
OP title has wrong state -- it is SC, not NC unc70 Aug 2016 #1
Oops, I'll get that corrected. TexasTowelie Aug 2016 #2

unc70

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1. OP title has wrong state -- it is SC, not NC
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:50 AM
Aug 2016

We have enough problems of our own in NC, but this one is about South Carolina.

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