WASHINGTON ? The founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian spent more than $250,000 in institution funds in the past four years on first-class transportation and plush lodging in hotels around the world, including more than a dozen trips to Paris. In that time, W. Richard West Jr. was away from Washington for 576 days on trips that included speaking …

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