Article: Grasso Breached Duty to NYSE, N.Y. Judge Rules

A judge ruled yesterday that former New York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso breached his duty by failing to disclose his ballooning retirement fund in the years before his resignation, a decision that could force Grasso to hand over as much as $100 million he already received and relinquish his stake to $48 million more, prosecutors said.

In what New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos called a "shocking" abdication of responsibility for an executive, Grasso thwarted the stock exchange's board from fulfilling its obligations to oversee his pay and benefits before he left the nation's largest and most prestigious market three years ago.

Ramos's sharply worded order, which ...

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