The planned sale of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting leaves just one big accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche, with a large consulting operation.
Its deep ties to a Republican consulting operation raise questions about whether, under cover of its tax-exempt mission "to promote a strong, job-creating economy," the group is largely a funnel for anonymous donations.
Khan would go on to establish an illicit nuclear weapons technology procurement and consulting operation, the "Khan Network," that would play a major role in the transmission of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and to a lesser extent, North Korea.
ACCOUNTING rules and practices have recently been changed with the intent of limiting the reporting of losses that cannot be accurately measured, but these changes are not likely to force this shadow space into the open, according to Gregory A. Tosko, an executive managing director in Insignia/ESG's consulting operation.
The partners -- C. E. Andrews and Lawrence A. Rieger -- reaffirmed Andersen's commitment to focus on providing audit services to clients while shedding its consulting operation and much of its tax and finance business.
The list of potential bidders has read like a who's who of technology and services, including Logica of Britain, Siemens of Germany, and Cap Gemini of France (which is merging with the computer consulting operation of Ernst & Young) as well as E.D.S. and Computer Sciences of the United States.
By offering services, it raises questions, even if the product development is entirely separate from the consulting operation.
Jeff Scofield, a founding partner at Shokey Scofield Solutions, wrote VICE in an email that McChrystal's firm "will not be involved in this client or any of our clients," claiming that his company only rents space to the former general's consulting operation.
