Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court refused to reconsider Gravel's argument that he and his aide. Leonard S. Rodberg, have Congressional immunity from outside inquiry. The decision made both men subject to subpoena in the Boston Grand Jury's investigation of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers...
...learned that just before talking to the Patman staff, Stans received a call from President Nixon in San Clemente. It was described by White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler as a "keep-your-spirits-up type call." Stans has resisted a formal committee hearing, however, and Democrats hope to subpoena him. Last week Stans filed a $5,000,000 libel suit against the former National Democratic Committee Chairman Larry O'Brien, for "falsely and maliciously accusing" him of "a number of criminal acts." Stans also filed a $2.5 million suit against O'Brien and his attorneys for using...
...usual, such belated, pious protestations commanded the headlines but did not faze the Mafia; they have heard it all before and have still gone on with business as usual. A more serious threat was District Attorney Frank Hogan's revelation that he would subpoena as many as 600 Mafiosi before a grand jury...
Where was Frank Sinatra? The House Select Committee on Crime wanted to ask him some questions about his part-ownership of the Berkshire Downs race track in Massachusetts during the early 1960s, when other part-owners included two Mafia leaders. But when the committee tried to serve a subpoena on Sinatra, it couldn't find the fast-moving horseman, who turned up in London-to attend some races. He was seen at dinner with Composer Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady), but then checked out of his hotel for points unknown. Said a hotel spokesman: "Frank Sinatra is not here...
...surprisingly, the first subpoena was greeted with displeasure by Popkin and, represented by attorneys William P. Homans Jr. '41 and Daniel Klubock, he filed a motion to have the order quashed and moved that the government be required to reveal any intercepted wire communications, (i.e., wire tapping). Both motions were denied, but Popkin was not required to testify at that time...