He confronts Carte, at the new theatre, over lavish expenses.

Those amounts consisted of advertising and production costs for shows that were not selling enough tickets to recover their lavish expenses.

The lavish expenses led to McNevin's resignation from the Board.

The lavish expenses noted coincide with the Sultan's extensive mosque.

In June 2010, he is a part of the ministers involved in a series of scandals related to their lavish expenses deemed by the medias.

He also dropped some lavish promotional expenses, including a drag-racing funny car, a ocean-racing boat and an airplane.

He claimed to have no knowledge about who paid for his million-dollar home, Cadillac Escalades, and other lavish expenses.

This was a wonderland, as impressive in its lavish expense as in its execution.

These lavish expenses led McNevin to resign from the board in 1987.

"These are lavish expenses, not just an occasional charge," Ms. Korenstein said.