In 2008, when he was 92 years old, legally blind and not very mobile, Rabbi Bernard Lander received a presidential salary of $350,000 from Touro College, a nonprofit university (“Touro Says Lander Pay Was Deferred Comp,” Nov. 19). The school had decided that the salary for Lander, who died last February, was insufficient, and he was awarded a bonus of $4 million.
Unbelievable.
Forest Hills, Queens
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