That's just not plausible, sir, because Annie Ropar from the Infrastructure Bank is communicating with Zak Cutler and Antonino Piazza at McKinsey, and they're discussing your schedule and events they're going to put together, at which you're going to participate, along with McKinsey and various others. Either you're not telling the committee the truth, or you routinely take meetings where you have no idea who's going to be there, either before or after.
Even if we believe your account that you were totally ignorant to these things, that doesn't sound like a very effective ethical screen. If you say there's an ethical screen that's supposed to keep you from interacting with McKinsey, but McKinsey can show up at meetings and you're not aware they're there, and you're fine to share your advice not knowing who's on the call—