Salaries Soared For Staff At 9/11 Memorial -- North Jersey
The private foundation seeking federal tax money to run the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center paid one executive about $440,000 in 2010, recently released tax records show.
Joan Gerner, the foundation's former executive vice president of design and construction, worked about four months that year before receiving a $296,000 severance payment, the records show. A spokesman for the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum declined to comment on the severance payment or Gerner's departure, less than three years after she was hired, citing a non-disclosure agreement between the non-profit and Gerner.
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My Comment: $440,000 to watch over a memorial .... who are you kidding.