Pay Czar – Kenneth R. Feinberg

by **Admin** Tue 25 Jan 2011, 10:39 pm

Pay Czar – Kenneth R. Feinberg

Title: Special Master on executive pay

Salary: reportedly receiving no compensation for his work.

Reports to: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

Appointed: June 2009

Department that might have handled similar issues: Treasury

• Named to examine compensation practices at companies that have been bailed out more than once by the federal government

• Oversaw the payouts to the families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

• Was the chief administrator to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, which commemorates the students who died in the April 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech

• Founder and managing partner of Feinberg Rozen LLP (1992 to present), law firm specializing in mediation

• Was Chief of staff for Sen. Edward Kennedy (1978 to 1980)

• While working with the Feinberg Group, donated over $150,000, nearly all of which has gone to Democratic candidates and political action committees. In 2007, donated $2,300 to 2008 presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani R).

(SOURCE: List of Obama Czars by Glenn Beck
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Chief of Staff to Sen. Ted Kennedy??

Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs.