Article: Grasso wins in the end.(Editorial)

Former New York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso has been rhetorically flogged from one end of Wall Street to the other for being a greedhead after taking $139.5 million in salary in 2003 and trying to take $48 million more in advance retirement benefits. But the attorney general of New York had no good grounds for trying to make him give up $100 million of it, and it's a good thing that a state appeals court has dismissed the lawsuit.

A victory for Grasso at trial would have reinforced the principle that a deal's a deal, a principle that could stand reinforcement these days. But no defendant is required to risk the chance of losing, just to reinforce a principle, if the ...

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