The poverty campaigner who walked away with £500k of poor kids' cash
THE head of a charity set up to tackle poverty in one of the poorest parts of Scotland has been given a golden goodbye worth £500,000 by Labour councillors, the Sunday Herald can reveal.
GERA was set up to tackle poverty in areas such as Dalmarnock
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By Tom Gordon and Paul Hutcheon
Ronnie Saez landed a package worth around six times his salary after being made redundant from his post as chief executive of Glasgow East Regeneration Agency (GERA).
His exit deal comprised a "severance payment" of £42,000 and a £470,000 boost to his pension, which included a discretionary £208,000.