It said that many expenses included in the $140,000 were for business travel by other association employees using Mr. Meyocks's credit card, and that the dining expenses cited as improper were "for retirement or executive dinners that are not only responsible, but the right thing to do".
For a meeting of Marriott's executives, dinner for 45 was served in the kitchen, so that behind-the-scenes became the scene itself.
In fact, he said he was told as much by a senior sales executive during dinner at a Silicon Valley Latin American restaurant.
Some of the more eye-catching claims included: Creative director Alan Yentob claimed £1,579.63 for an "executive Christmas dinner" for 27 people in 2006.
He took the job only a week after meeting Mark Walsh, VerticalNet's current chief executive, over dinner at an industry conference.
Some rights reserved The Newton was meant to be an intelligent "personal digital assistant" (a phrase coined by John Sculley and a Toshiba executive over dinner one evening).
A bill of nearly £1,600 for an "executive Christmas dinner" held by the BBC's creative director Alan Yentob was among the claims in the latest list of expenses published by the broadcaster.
On one occasion, Tillerson joined a group of chief executives at dinner with Obama.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt dined with oil executives over dinner at the hotel, according to Bloomberg News, which obtained his schedule.
Ms. Batts recalled how they would fly into a city, round up local trucking executives for dinner, then hit them up for cash.
Top executives had dinner at the Art Institute, the museum that holds treasures like works by Cezanne and Edward Hopper.
