KENSINGTON, Md. — McGladrey has remained quiet on the question of the Lafayette balloting since it decertified the vote and made a request of NCUA not to make these documents eligible for release under the Freedom of Information Act, but these documents coming to light have left some questions on the table.

For example, during the Jan. 9 phone call McGladrey recalled Lafayette's counsel being upset that the firm had notified NCUA that it decertified the vote. In the firm's account of the phone call, McGladrey said Lafayette's counsel "expresses unhappiness that RSM contacted the NCUA directly." The law firm has not yet responded to inquiries about why it had been unhappy that the agency had been notified of the certification.

Likewise, the brokerage firm of Sandler O'Neil has not yet commented on McGladrey's report that one of its principals, Louis Parr, contacted Hotz on Aug. 14 regarding the Lafayette voting. In the firm's statement Hotz said Parr contacted him by phone about "encoding ballots and the mailing process" and Hotz told him that McGladrey had no role in the mailing other than collecting and tabulating the returned ballots.