Last year, Freedom Forum paid Neuharth, 88, $225,000 in wages plus $286,003 for expenses -- more than in any other year since 2000, according to public IRS tax returns.
Freedom Forum is the original Gannett Foundation.
Related: Gannett's ethics policy. Plus: The newspaper division's policy.
How do you rack up almost $300,000 in expenses? Does he charge $500 an hour for a ride to the airport? $1,000 for a fax?? Ay ay ay!!
ReplyDeleteIt's good to be a one (half) percenter!
ReplyDelete7:19 He doesn't travel couch. And I suspect he thinks Groupon is a type of fish.
ReplyDeleteAnd Jim, he probably thinks Deal Chicken is a card game, lol! Is that twice-size statue of him still at the entrance to Fla. Yesterday?
ReplyDeleteThat's so cool. Live it the right way.
ReplyDeleteAnother pig at the trough.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of an arrogant, egomaniacal son of a bitch whose reach far exceeds his grasp.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pig. No other word for it. Fabulously rich. Near the end. And yet just can't stop himself from sticking his snout in the trough.
ReplyDeleteWould elbow aside a guy who needs the paycheck just so he can get a little more to add to his pile. What a repulsive, greedy pig. He should be ashamed.
Maybe one of his boys at The Freedom Forum was the ghost writer.
ReplyDeleteHe also adopted several children yet rejects his own biological daughter. What kind of person does that?
ReplyDeleteHis hangers-on keep trying to crown him as a historic figure in the newspaper business. He's a footnote.
ReplyDeleteAl,
ReplyDeleteRetire. Please.