The administrative whirlwind at the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) continues. After former director Sasha Suda filed a complaint accusing the museum of unlawful termination, PhAM is countering with its own legal filing, alleging that she misappropriated thousands of dollars in museum funds. Suda accused the museum of unlawful termination and multiple employment agreement violations, and is seeking two years of severance pay at her contracted salary rate ($720,000 annually), alleging that she was dismissed “without valid basis.” The museum, however, argues that she was terminated “for cause” and is not entitled to severance pay as the external investigation concluded that she engaged in “dishonesty, misappropriation, breach of fiduciary duty as the Director or fraud.” Although the compensation committee denied Suda’s multiple requests for pay increases between 2023 and 2025, she awarded herself two unauthorized pay bumps effective in March and July 2024, respectively, the museum alle...