From WHEC:

A suburban highway superintendent entitled to a $25,000 bonus turned it down, saying he couldn’t accept the money when “it’s hard times for everyone.”

“It’s a very tough thing to do, to take a raise when a lot of people are losing their homes,” Eric DiBartolo said Friday.

DiBartolo, a municipal employee in Yorktown, about 38 miles north of New York City, had been promised the bonus if he could save his town money. He did so - to the tune of about $1 million.

Update: Or, more appropriately, can we appoint him to be CEO of one of the many companies taking bailout money for executive bonuses while laying off thousands?

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