Not exact matches
Ex-CEO Thomas Galante is demanding that the Queens Library, which is suing him to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in
salary and benefits he
lavished upon himself, is obligated to
pay for his defense against the clawback countersuit.
The embattled library board was dismantled in July after eight trustees opposed firing library director Thomas Galante, who spent $ 27,000 of his mostly taxpayer - funded
salary to
pay for
lavish office renovations, among other things.
The expanded 401 (k) style program
lavishes an extra 8 percent of
salary, over and above their lucrative
pay — literally thousands of dollars — into their individual investment funds.