my name is christie wilson, [speaker not understood] a big data company headquartered [speaker not understood]. we have over 5200 customers worldwide. i mention that specifically because i'm here to strongly lend our support to the creation of a chief data officer position. the existence of the company speaks to the power of [speaker not understood]. there are two main points i'd like to make. one is there is a huge economic opportunity here through the creation of both businesses in the private sector as well as increasing the sort of economic livelihood and opportunities that our citizens face. the second point that i would like to make today is open data is absolutely integral to a modern democracy. we must make data open, accessible, and valuable to all people throughout the world. and san francisco has both the [speaker not understood] because of our proximity being at the heart of technology and also because of our former sort of leadership in this area of really amazing opportunity to continue to search forward and be a leader in that area. so, both personally and also as a representat

we'll bring in a former federal prosecutor under now governor chris christie and also an attorney at wilson, good rich and rosati. mitch, what does this do for kpmg in. >> bad for kpmg. not as bad as some of their prior scandals because this is apparently one bad ale, but it's bad for kpmg. >> prior scandals, refresh us. >> their biggest prior scandal is they were part of a big tax shelter problem where the treasury department came into a number of the leading law firms and kpmg and basically said that something that they had on purpose designed was nothing but a tax fraud. >> right, right, right. okay, so, look. this scott london guy, the l.a. partner. he was monitoring all these companies. we know about herbalife and now about skechers. deckers and pacific bank corporation. do we believe the financials on these companies? mean, how does that affect? kpmg said we're okay, we're okay, but we're dropping out. do we believe the auditing returns they filed are valid? >> well, two of those companies don't exist anymore. kpmg was representing them as their attestation firm, and then they were ac