NYSE chairman resigns amid furor over lavish pay package

Thursday, September 18, 2003

NEW YORK -- New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso resigned Wednesday amid rising fury over his $139.5 million pay package, his 36-year career ruined by cries that he made too much money running the world's richest financial market.

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