The e-mails prompted a Senate committee to call Deloitte back for an explanation – though Mr. Runia wasn’t among them. On Thursday, a trio of Deloitte staff told the committee that Mr. Runia had indeed called them in “March sometime,” but stressed they didn’t give out information.
“He contacted me on one occasion in one phone call. The phone call was, he wanted to know if Senator Duffy Were to repay, how much would that be,” said Deloitte’s Gary Timm, who was one of a handful of people involved in the Duffy audit and took Mr. Runia’s call. “ I told him I can’t divulge or disclose any confidential information. He understood my reply.”
He later added: “It was a short call and it ended there…. I wanted to keep everything confidential.”
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