Mr. Gantt, who was described as a consultant to the group, was accused of falsifying documents.
Admiral Soar suggested he could ignore Acoba rules if he was described as a consultant rather than a lobbyist.
Soar, who retired this March, suggested he could ignore those guidelines if he was described as a consultant.
But minutes later, he used a profanity to describe a political consultant who had offended him.
Mr. Laird, the security consultant, described a chain of events he said became common.
In their presentation earlier in the evening, developers and their consultants described a "renaissance" in urban design nationwide that is now reaching into smaller cities like Maitland, where residents could live and work in a walkable, "zero commute" environment.
Their rising popularity, though, has created greater competition for managers and analysts, a proliferation of new funds and a strain on the talent pool, according to several fund managers and consultants, who described a litany of job-hopping at top funds.
After the S.E.C. began investigating and asked for ways to contact SpongeTech's major customers, the suit says, RM Enterprises hired George Speranza, whom the S.E.C. describes as a consultant "who operates the Internet stock hype site, 'nohypenobull.com.' " He was assigned to create false Web sites and false office listings for the fictitious customers, the S.E.C. said.
At the Like Minds conference in Exeter at the beginning of March, Joanne Jacobs, a social media consultant, described an AR application that demanded you buy a T-shirt and then go and sit in front of your webcam – so you could play Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Recognizing the challenges with not being present on the ward, one consultant described an effective communication strategy that relied on the intermediary role of a nurse-clinician, a specialized nurse educator role.
