1.   An investigator in the case said that among the matters under scrutiny were consulting contracts that COJO and its affiliates gave to people with ties to Hikind.

2.   Aside from the various consulting contracts and other business relationships disclosed in the proxy statements, there are ties that are not made clear.

3.   Boards should drop the consulting contracts, pension plans, and other frills that, they say, have often made board independence a fiction.

4.   A firm that is eager to land a consulting contract may be too lax about how a company keeps its books.

5.   After Rose dismissed Funkhouser, according to Kunasek, he illegally offered him a consulting contract and to pay Funkhouser for unclaimed sick leave.

6.   After he left office, he was given lucrative consulting contracts by Clinton supporters.

7.   But Corporate America is rife with other examples where consulting contracts outweigh audit fees.

8.   Critics have charged that Andersen failed to properly oversee Enron because it was too concerned with securing lucrative consulting contracts with the company.

9.   For example, accounting firms seek consulting contracts from the very same companies they are hired to audit.

10.   For Kahn also had a penchant for awarding six-figure consulting contracts, some of them to friends.