Mr. Lynch was the chair of the board. I knew this was an active issue in October. I took the meeting with the company. They are not a pariah. It was not improper to have communications with the company.
The conversation was a telephone conversation and not a meeting, and it lasted less than 10 minutes.
Mr. Lynch, as the chair of the board, expressed his frustration that he did not understand why a DPA was not being considered and he knew that the board, in its trustee relationships for the shareholders in the company, was going to have to take some tough decisions in October and November.
My recollection of the conversation is that he asked, “Isn't there anything that can be done?” I told him, in the firmest, curtest possible terms, no, he would have to go through the Attorney General and the DPP through his counsel.