Charles Grassley: Meet Michelle Leder

In the wake of the resignation of American Red Cross CEO Marsha Evans over "communication and coordination" issues, Senate Finance Committee chair Charles Grassley (R-IA) has called for information on spending by the ARC on Katrina and South Asian tsunami relief efforts. He also asked for details on Ms. Evans severance package and compensation of ARC executives, including Ms. Evans.

The obvious person to scrutinize the ARC-Marsha Evans severance package would be Michelle Leder, author of the top-notch Footnoted.org blog (see "The Ninth Blog of Christmas" or the links at the right of the page). In her "My Big Fat Deal" category, Ms. Leder has pulled severance package information out of dozens if not hundreds of corporate annual and SEC reports and undoubtedly would do a fine job on the ARC package as well.