Word: subpoena
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When Spitzer gave the order to subpoena every relevant e-mail he could get his hands on, he had no idea he would get the smoking guns that materialized. Merrill Lynch complied promptly, perhaps unaware of the documents' incriminating nature. Over six weeks in March and April, the investment bank sent 30 big boxes of e-mail, snapshots from the hard drives of Internet-company analyst Henry Blodget and his team...
...months since, with new allegations of clerical abuse emerging almost daily, the passions have only increased. So a heavy shouldered Law, 71, facing a grand jury subpoena and the potential bankruptcy of his archdiocese, went to Rome again last week to tender his resignation. This time it was accepted. And although ecclesiastical changes are sometimes hushed for a while, this one was made public almost at once. Says Scott Appleby, a professor of Catholic history at the University of Notre Dame: "The crisis finally has been acknowledged by Rome to be as serious as most American Catholics have understood...
...From its inception, however, the Presidential Truth Commission on Suspicious Deaths faced powerful opposition. Conservative lawmakers, some of whom worked as police or prosecutors under former military strongmen, successfully watered down the legislation establishing the commission, denying it the right to subpoena witnesses, conduct searches or even demand access to official documents. With the commission due to release a final report by Oct. 16, it now seems the body has been less than thorough even within its purview. It investigated only 83 cases out of hundreds of unexplained deaths because many of the victims' families were suspicious or too discouraged...
...press conference had originally been called to protest the subpoena, which was issued 12 days ago and would have required the release of records of conversations that victims had at meetings or with volunteers at SNAP. The subpoena stemmed from a lawsuit brought against the Diocese by five women, who argued that it did not do enough to protect them from Kelley...
Kelley’s lawyers apparently dropped the subpoena mid-morning yesterday and Kelley, who said he first heard about the subpoena on Sunday, confirmed the action several hours later...