Federal prosecutors recently charged consultants in the project with an $80 million fraud scheme.
These days, companies like Zimmer have fewer consultants, part of the fallout from settlements in 2007 by several companies, including Zimmer, of Justice Department charges that consultant payments were used to disguise kickbacks to surgeons.
And Kathy Bates is nothing short of brilliant as the take-charge campaign consultant with a history of nervous breakdowns.
Pressure from government overseers will provide a hammer to get the rest done more quickly, says industry expert Ronald Harbour, partner in charge of consultant Oliver Wyman's North American automotive practice.
Moreover, with their companies investing billions of dollars in China, executives told me they didn't care whether consultants charged $500,000 or $5 million, as long as their strategies helped them make money.
Dunne also charged: "Our consultants observed physical restraints..
The charges against the consultant, Melvin E. Lowe, who also served as a political aide to John L. Sampson, a former Democratic leader in the State Senate, include accusations that he and an unnamed state senator stole $100,000 from the campaign committee in an invoicing scheme.
While that kind of charge is both obscene and certainly an outlier, it dwarfs the $9,999.00 fee charged by another consultant for a three-and-a-half day college application "boot camp" reported on in IHE in 2005.
Her daughter's college consultant charged $2,000.
Her son's college consultant charged $3,000.
