Top Rutgers lawyer tied to coaching scandal gets more than $420K in resignation settlement

By Ted Sherman and Kelly Heyboer /Star-Ledger Staff

NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University’s former top lawyer, who was forced to resign in the wake of the basketball coaching scandal, will get a payout of nearly $420,000 and free football tickets as part of his deal to step down, school officials said today.

John Wolf, who served as Rutgers’ interim senior vice president and general counsel, announced his resignation Thursday after he was pressured to quit for his role in advising the university’s president not to fire basketball coach Mike Rice last fall after video emerged of Rice manhandling and shouting profanities at players.

Wolf is the third Rutgers official to receive a large payout after resigning or getting fired in the fallout of the coaching controversy.

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“We continue to be dismayed at the large sums of money and other benefits that are to be paid to former employees for their bad behavior. This is especially troubling given the low pay received by many of our teachers and researchers,” Rutgers AAUP-AFT, which represents more than 6,000 professors and staff, said the statement.

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