{"id":193743,"date":"2008-11-20T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/not-enough-bullets-85\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T12:16:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/not-enough-bullets-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s longtime CEO and founder of South Financial Group, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/bank-got-bailout-ceo-got-golden-parachute-1119\/\">moved up his retirement date to preserve an $18 million dollar severance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Meanwhile, corporate governance analyst Hodgson said that Whittle&#8217;s deal &#8212; nominally a retirement, but treated as a severance &#8212; is all too typical of golden parachutes: &#8220;If you and I decided to retire, we might get what&#8217;s left of our 401(k). But for some reason the rules seem to be different for executives. They get severance even though they&#8217;re retiring. There&#8217;s no logic to it at all.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These guys need to be tattooed with verses insulting Mohammad, and parachuted into a Taliban camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s longtime CEO and founder of South Financial Group, who moved up his retirement date to preserve an $18 million dollar severance: Meanwhile, corporate governance analyst Hodgson said that Whittle&#8217;s deal &#8212; nominally a retirement, but treated as a severance &#8212; is all too typical of golden parachutes: &#8220;If you and I decided &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}