An independent panel investigating recent leadership scandals at the Smithsonian Institution has issued a scathing report that lays much of the blame for the Smithsonian’s problems at the feet of now-resigned CEO Lawrence Small. “Rather than rein him in, the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents stood passively by, the report said, allowing him to spend the institution’s money on copious personal expenses and to treat the board as irrelevant to decision making.”