21.   Others have been funded by faculty consulting fees, book royalties, drug trials, research grants and sales of materials and services.

22.   Paxson will also receive an annual consulting fee.

23.   Payments to lawyers are reported when they are in the form of salaries or consulting fees.

24.   Research presented recently in Atlanta suggests that the more consulting fees are paid, the more likely companies manipulate their earnings.

25.   So companies carefully cultivate their luminaries, offering them consulting fees and fancy perks.

26.   Starr also alleged that Hubbell performed little or no work for hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees, much of it from Clinton friends.

27.   Suspicions of a quid pro quo involving Hubbell arose after he obtained various consulting fees through political connections at the height of the Whitewater scandal.

28.   The disclosures will include the audit fee paid to the accounting firm, the amount of technology consulting fees and all other fees paid by the audit client.

29.   The government contends that the defendants attempted to disguise the payments as consulting fees, and that Thompson and Lehr knowingly drew up sham consulting agreements.

30.   The kickbacks were disguised as consulting fees and charged to Medicare, said Jackie Williams, U.S. attorney for Kansas.