Word: subpoena
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WHITE PLAINS, New York: Parts of a tape recording containing racial slurs uttered by Texaco executives may have been deleted, says a U.S. prosecutor. During subpoena arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stanley Okula told the court that the oil company's independent investigation has uncovered evidence of "purposeful erasures" on the recordings. Okula said that additional charges may be brought against Richard Lundwall, the Texaco executive who originally made the tapes public, if it can be shown that he was responsible for the suspected deletions. Neither Okula nor Lundwall's attorney, Ethan Levin-Epstein, would comment on which portions...
...rebuilding their Main Streets, churches rethinking their missions--occurs well out of earshot of the nation's capital. Rarely does a town council think that Washington will provide any protection from or solution for its problems, a feeling confirmed by the spectacle of politicians bickering over flood relief and subpoena power. Even if they could get federal or state aid, Americans are wary of the baggage that would inevitably come with it. If you can't help us, goes the message to government, at least stay...
...work for a host of companies friendly to the Democratic Party. Starr has just hired three seasoned prosecutors, in part because he needs the benefit of their judgment as the probe wraps up. His court victory this week could be viewed as a renewed fishing license--allowing him to subpoena notes and depose White House lawyers--but that would be a mistake. After last week, even Starr must know that time is running...
...Democrats. Meanwhile, a reform bill remains stalled in Congress with no real incentive to move it towards a vote. One could come out of Fred Thompson's Senate hearings on the campaign finance scandal that begins next Tuesday. The hearings will of course be partisan -- the committee will subpoena 442 Democratic targets and only 34 Republican targets. But just as no one could have predicted that the Watergate hearings would uncover the tapes that eventually sank the Nixon Presidency, these hearings could produce enough evidence that even Congress won't be able to ignore the calls for meaningful reform...
...lately the most telling shots in this guerrilla war have been called by the White House itself. The President's defense team operates with a bunker mentality, scrawling messages in erasable marker to avoid the net of subpoenas. At 8:45 every morning, the "senior command"--a dozen lawyers, political aides and spokesmen--meet in the office of deputy chief of staff John Podesta to project where the Republicans are heading and how they can be headed off. They have managed this with the collaboration of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle while still providing most of the documents Thompson...