According to Ms. Williams, the comptroller's office closely vetted the consultants to disqualify any that posed a conflict.
Mr. Nguyen, who is cooperating with prosecutors, vetted prospective consultants, measuring their "ability and willingness" to give inside information, the complaint said.
It's hard work to vet consultants before you hire them.
The 42 respondents included 30 sheep and beef cattle farmers and 12 representatives from the wider industry (vets, consultants, meat processors, breeding advisors, researchers).
Investors are discovering that some hedge funds, and perhaps the consultants who vetted them, are not all they were cracked up to be.
The consultant said he vetted the arrangement in advance with the Ethics Commission, which has a policy of not commenting on possible or pending investigations.
The group swiftly produced a proposal for a multidisciplinary Contemplative Sciences Center, which was vetted by Jones's paid yoga consultant.
Loh said a team of consultants, attorneys and financial analysts fully vetted projected revenue data that Big Ten officials provided.
The letters will invite borrowers to submit their cases for a free review by independent consultants that are funded by the lenders but vetted by regulators.
So the foundation hired a consultant to vet innovative small firms; they quickly settled on Aurora, which maintains a library of 400,000 small molecules that can be screened at high speed for medical applications.
Since time consultants are generally hired by larger organizations, they will be heavily vetted based initially on education and then on experience, a track record of excellence.
