Word: subpoena
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Undergraduate students in the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) failed in their second attempt to deliver a subpoena to a Harvard Business School (HBS) professor during his class yesterday morning...
...turns out that Robert B. Reich, the former Secretary of Labor and soulmate of Bill Clinton, kept a diary. That's unusual in the subpoena-happy capital, and so is the tone of his kiss-and-shrug memoir--a bittersweet but ultimately forgiving account of his four years in Washington. In Locked in the Cabinet, to be published this month by Knopf, Reich describes his constant appeals to Clinton's conscience against the stronger pull of such personalities as then Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and presidential adviser Dick Morris...
...survey of state records shows that Lindner wasn't alone. Las Vegas casino owner Steve Wynn, who according to FEC records gave $35,000 to the D.N.C., sprinkled 10 times that amount last fall to seven state Democratic parties, including Georgia and Colorado. Wynn wanted to limit the subpoena power of a new federal gambling commission. Clinton initially favored giving the panel broad investigative authority to study casinos and their books but subsequently reversed his position. Not long afterward, Wynn's cash came through, steered to tightly contested swing states by D.N.C. officials...
...former deputy chief of staff says his cooperation with Representative Dan Burton's Government Reform and Oversight Committee is not retribution but common sense: he believes it would be easier--and cheaper--to comply with a request for documents than pay his lawyer to cope with a subpoena. That's a plausible explanation from a patrician tightwad who hates to spend money (he sends his old suits out to be rewoven rather than buy new ones). In any case, Ickes draws a line between his treatment by the President and everyone else at the White House. Clinton tried to give...
...looking for work," he explained. "I was a friend of Webb's. So I asked Webb if he had experience with antitrust work. I talked to Tim. I went and told Webb. Webb called Tim." Berman said he arranged no other work for Hubbell and has not received a subpoena from Starr...