Womanizer Modesto Maidique wants a BIG PAYOFF

This lowlife who shielded, befriended, and employed Cuban spies wants nearly a million dollars in order to go away from his job in the State University system. The Maidique is 65 years old, instead of retiring with dignity, he wants to steal more money from the public University system. Once again, the taxpayers get fleeced by a well-connected, unethical slimeball.

(excerpt from Miami Herald story) FIU's leader wants perks if he quits. Florida International University President Modesto Maidique requested a bonus and a lucrative retirement package in his next contract.
BY NOAH BIERMAN, The Miami Herald
Florida International University President Modesto Maidique is asking for a $250,000 bonus in his new contract and a slew of perks in case he resigns.


His proposed contract would expire July 31, 2008. But it would also allow him to resign before that and still reap the $250,000 bonus ``in recognition of his 20 years of faithful, dedicated and exemplary service.'' It would also grant him a year-long sabbatical after stepping down at his current salary of $326,340.

Or he could forgo the sabbatical, take a lump-sum payout and retire. After a sabbatical, he could return to FIU as a professor at his present salary, which would make him the highest-paid, full-time professor by more than $100,000.

But the past year has been tough -- with fallout from a federal grant investigation that forced the school to return $11.5 million, a faculty senate resolution expressing ''grave concerns'' with his leadership, a divorce and, most recently, criminal spy charges against two close friends who work at the university.

His current contract, signed in 2002, brought his salary up to $285,000 in the first full year. ''It is only in the past three or four years that I have been paid even close to competitively,'' Maidique said.

''They may be a large enterprise but that doesn't mean they should run like a for-profit business,'' said John Curtis, director of research for the American Association of University Professors.