“Mr. [former TNRD CAO Sukh] Gill did not expense half-a-million dollars for his own purposes and walk away with it,” Christian said. “This is about how he paid for different things that we had.” Christian pointed to successive meetings as to a reason why dining expenses would be charged by Gill on behalf of directors. In those circumstances, Christian said, it wasn’t only Gill who charged the expenses, but also the TNRD’s finance director, Doug Rae, or director of development Regina Sadilkova. KTW did not analyze expenses via those staffers’ taxpayer-funded credit cards. Christian said costs for dining in such cases are subsequently assigned to directors and included in the annual statement of financial information report. Christian referred to KPMG audits and the regional district’s audit committee, upon which he sits. He would not comment on behalf of that committee, citing “consistency of messaging.”