The Evening Standard has FOI responses about additional help hired in the Pollard Inquiry into what went wrong with the Jimmy Savile investigation at Newsnight - but in one case it was pushing at an open door.
It says PR company Greab & Gavin Anderson was hired to field phone calls from journalists. This was openly reported by PR Week in November last year. Greab was founded in Sweden by its executive chairman Peje Emilsson and Jan-Erik Ander. They merged with US firm Gavin Anderson, also in financial and corporate PR, in 2009. Together they have 25 offices around the world - their London base is, aptly, in Scandinavian House, Cannon Street.
More interestingly, the Standard reveals that Kroll investigators were hired - they prefer the name Kroll Advisory Solutions for their global business. They don't come cheap. Kroll was bought by Altegrity Inc ('Make decisions smarter [sic]") in 2010. Altegrity in turn are owned by Providence Equity Partners, headquartered in Providence, Rhode IslandHired hands.
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