HOLMES REPORT: Paying someone to speak on a client's behalf can generate more questions than answers

Word that a speakers' bureau working on behalf - although apparently without the knowledge - of American International Group had sought to recruit "independent" experts to attack New York attorney general Elliot Spitzer drew a brief flurry of coverage in the national media recently, along with some half-hearted outrage from Spitzer's office, which seemed more amused than alarmed by the whole episode.