Garten said Sater was never a Trump Organization employee and was paid nothing during the brief 2010 arrangement.
In a message to The Times's news staff, Bill Keller, the paper's executive editor, said: "In brief, the arrangement goes like this: We will give NBC stories, graphics, pictures and the Caucus blog for their Web site.
After a brief meeting, arrangements were made for Stephanie's to sell and showcase pieces of the collection.
A brief tutorial on arrangement followed, with demonstrations.
But in many ways the gem of the collection is "Deep River," in a brief but powerful arrangement by Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann.
After a brief string quartet arrangement of a song (from a cycle celebrating sex) comes an extended finale — called "Magyar Madness," like the work as a whole — that makes even heavier use of a four-note descent, usually as part of a longer descent.
Another hedge fund marketing executive, Mark Marxer, may have been involved in arranging for Mr. Calugar's trading, people briefed on the arrangement said.
But one real estate executive who had been briefed on the arrangement said that a deal was highly likely.
It is expected to pay its banks an underwriting fee of just 3.25 percent of proceeds raised, according to another person briefed on the arrangement.
Lawrence Di Rita, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said at a news briefing that the arrangement "will be some sort of mutually agreed process" that was still under discussion.
Under the deal with Live Nation, according to people briefed on the arrangement, ownership of her new recordings would eventually revert to her.
