U of L pays 3 administrators double retirement to keep them from divulging secrets - Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal

The University of Louisville last year paid three officials close to President James Ramsey twice as much to take early retirement as other administrators, so they would keep quiet about sensitive information the university did not want them to disclose. Records show that the school paid a full year’s salary to outgoing Vice Presidents Michael Curtin ($252,350) and Larry Owsley ($248,255) and to assistant to the president Vivian Hibbs ($66,391) in part to induce them not to “disparage, demean or impugn the university or its senior leadership.” “We had to give them something,” said Mark Hebert, U of L spokesman. http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140315/NEWS0105/303160014/U-of-L-pays-3-administrators-double-retirement-to-keep-them-from-divulging-secrets?nclick_check=1