Because to sell the deal to crossflo they had to guarantee that they would not be held accountable for any money or contracts that were implied to exist. Perhaps some contracts could not get funded in this fiscal year that were expected.(however naively). Baroni himself wrote an article stating that funds for the health care initiative would not be available till 2010 fiscal year. So where was our 6-9 mil. revenue estimate coming from. I think that the executives at Crossflo knew they had a cash cow, but could not fund it until fruition, it is a deal they didn't want to make. They certainly didn't want to give anything back on it. This leaves an out for the BOD under Baroni's recomendation to get rid of the parties. How could our board not have been aware of that clause?