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Former MBTA pension chief earned $2.2 million since 2009

Michael Mulhern, the former leader of the MBTA Retirement Fund, earned $2.2 million in compensation from 2009 to 2016. Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe

Michael Mulhern took home $2.2 million in compensation as chief of the MBTA Retirement Fund in the eight years after the financial crisis, including $216,329 in 2016, when he worked just seven months.

The compensation, released in response to a records request by the Globe, included pay for unused vacation time, representatives of the pension fund said. Based on his prior year’s pay rate, that would be nearly $50,000 for accrued vacation.

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