gossip or not, I doubt that someone just made up these very specific information. A lot of board talk here in the past was based on information from gossip websites and they were all good in your books when they showed pictures of KK or Mel B wearing Vata.
Which takes us back to the financials being completed and quite possibly being audited to prove that these costs were not incurred. As long as they can blog it, we have to fight it. The financials would prove which ever way it was.