The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 3, January 16, 2005, Article 19

COMPULSIVE COLLECTOR BOUGHT "OFFICE SUPPLIES"

Collecting is a compulsion, and numismatists can at least
understand the enthusiasm of an Ontario, Canada collector
of hockey cards who went a little too far in raising funds to
feed his habit:

"Canadian police charged a former senior federal bureaucrat
with fraud on Friday, alleging he used government credit cards
to fund his passion for collecting sports cards.

Donald Billing, a former director of Measurement Canada,
was charged with 11 counts of fraud. Police say he used
government credit cards to buy hockey cards valued at
approximately C$185,000 ($150,000), and tried to pass
off the purchases as office supplies."

"As a result of the case, Fox said: "There's now an increased
monitoring of credit card purchases and the number of credit
cards in use by Measurement Canada has been reduced by
42 nationally."

To read the full story from Reuters, see: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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