Wylie told the committee that Kogan's company was set up exclusively for the purposes of obtaining data for CA, and said the firm chose to work with Kogan because another professor it had approached first had asked for a substantial payment up front and a 50% equity share — whereas he had agreed to work on the project to obtain the data first, and consider commercial terms later.
Not all of the "Indian" officers of the 11th found themselves the object of Brudenell's disfavour: when in October 1840 Major Jenkins, a long-serving veteran, fell seriously ill Brudenell attended his bedside for two nights and, when he died, made a substantial payment to the family and secured a suitable position for his younger son.
When I visited him I was in the happy position of bringing news of a substantial payment for his crippling bronchitis and emphysema.
The plea resulted in a year's probation, three days in a work release program, a substantial payment covering fines, court costs and restitution.
Alberto Diaz Gutierrez - better known as Korda - has accepted a "substantial" payment from the picture agency Rex Features and the advertising agency Lowe Lintas, which had used the image in an advertisement for spicy vodka.
"The very clear and unmistakable intention of both Ray Charles and all his children was that, in exchange for a substantial payment, the children were not to raise any claims against their father's estate," Ms. Ervin said in a statement.
