How many U.S.-based corporations with a global presence have a national security advisor on staff or retainer to help them make these kinds of decisions?
Mr. Hummel asked a series of questions attempting to show that the F.B.I. did no investigation to disprove Mr. Arneson's contention that he was paid a monthly retainer to do all sorts of security work for Mr. Pellicano's clients like Farrah Fawcett, Nicholas Cage and even, the elusive Mr. Fields.
In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas, one of Lyndon Johnson's closest advisers on Vietnam even while on the court, had to resign after revelations that he had been on retainer to a financier under investigation for securities violations.
Mr Bush scored two costly home goals first when he spent his post-election political capital on a doomed bid to reform Social Security, and second when he nominated a light-weight family retainer, Harriet Miers, for the Supreme Court, provoking a fire-storm on the right.
The law firm DLA Piper was tapped in 2o15 by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia for a nine-month contract to "assist the Embassy in strengthening the ability of the United States and Saudi Arabia to advance mutual national security interests". The work is listed as receiving a $50,000 monthly retainer, or a combined $450,000.
In the end, in December, Lurie paid a stiff twenty-one-thousand-dollar retainer to Bill Stanton, an on-air "safety-and-security expert" for "Good Morning America," so that Stanton would befriend Perry and then somehow gaslight him into certifiable insanity.
For convention purposes, congregations divided themselves into various committees in order to oversee everything from security to media relations; they even took care of cleaning, despite the Superdome's retainer on dozens of janitors.
Mr. Arneson explained how he'd been paid a monthly retainer by Pellicano to be on call to perform all sorts of security services for many of Mr. Pellicano's famous clients--including Farrah Fawcett, Mary J. Blige and Whoopi Goldberg.
And if you have more than one retainer, then you are not reliant on a single client, which gives you even more security.
