NEW YORK: The four-year legal case against Richard Grasso, former CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, came to a close July 1 when a New York State appellate court decided that he could keep the entirety of the $139.5 million retirement package he was given when he was fired in 2003.
Grasso enlisted Eric Starkman, president of Starkman & Associates and a former financial journalist, as his PR representation in the media frenzy that followed his exit.
In his first in-depth ...