The extremity of demands in the Clarence House contract shocked broadcasting experts.
In the white silences, Elliot could hear the boards of his house contract and feel a shrinking in his bones.
Rivera said she did not want the house contract to raise questions about her integrity or that of her family.
Last December, Essex awarded Education and Health Centers of America, a nonprofit organization affiliated with Community Education, a $130 million contract to house county inmates and federal immigration detainees in Delaney Hall, the largest halfway house contract in the state.
Mr. Christie issued a line-item veto in June to reduce new disclosure agreements, and last week significantly weakened a measure that would have required special audits of the halfway house contracts.
He set up Community First in 2005 while still working for the company, then used the nonprofit group to bid successfully against the company for the halfway-house contract, according to interviews and public records.
In its bid for the federal halfway-house contract, Community First said it had a $2.2 million contract with New York City to provide shelter for homeless people with H.I.V.
After Mr. Lanham was fired, the department said, it rolled out new safeguards against rogue consultants, including an in-house contract manager responsible for approving and monitoring purchases and payments and a unit charged with carrying out price and cost analyses for contracted services.
The theater's board of directors voted in August to change a housing contract for the man, Joe Patten, 83, citing his "deteriorating health".
In essence, amorphous distribution entities – networks, studios, publishing houses – contract with outside content-makers who create the many products and brands and, hopefully, hits, that feed the channel.
In a separate dealing, the senator, whose clout at the Pentagon is legendary, helped this private-sector patron secure a $450 million Air Force housing contract over Pentagon objections.
