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  • Purcell's $44m reward for failure?

    07/09/2005 2:06:38 AM PDT · by gd124 · 4 replies · 361+ views
    Times Online ^ | July 08, 2005 | Miles Costello
    Miles Costello reports on the settlement in New York that marks the final chapter in the former chairman's unhappy reign at Morgan Stanley Philip Purcell, the former chief executive of Morgan Stanley, is to be paid an exit bonus of about $44 million (£20 million) in cash. Taking into account the value of his accrued stock and options, this means Mr Purcell walks away from the bank with more than $110 million. According to a regulatory statement submitted yesterday, as part of an agreed departure settlement, Mr Purcell, pictured - who quit the bank last month following a sustained attack...
  • UN cash for accused Nazi (Waldheim got 4,1 million)

    10/20/2002 6:50:33 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 21 replies · 1,704+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | October 20 2002
    KURT Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary general accused of committing Nazi atrocities, has received a $4.1 million golden handshake from the world body. The money has been paid secretly over the past 20 years, despite Mr Waldheim being linked to war crimes. The former UN secretary general has been banned from setting foot on United States soil since 1987, when he was found to have "assisted or participated" in Nazi deportations and the executions of Jews and soldiers in the Balkans during World War II. But now it has been revealed that the UN gives the 83-year-old ex-Wehrmacht intelligence...