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Harvard officials confirmed last week that they received a subpoena from the New York Attorney General’s Office regarding an investigation into how the University approves contracts for its study abroad program...
Harvard officials confirmed Tuesday that they received a subpoena from the New York Attorney General’s Office regarding an investigation into how the University approves contracts for its study abroad program...
Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake said that the University received the subpoena late last week, and that it is still under evaluation. He declined to comment on what information the attorney general was seeking or what practices were under investigation...
...commissioner, Bud Selig has the power to launch whatever type of investigation he desires. George Mitchell was essentially acting as an agent of the commissioner during the entire process. But from the beginning, Mitchell faced a major obstacle: he had no subpoena power. Plus, he was facing a bitter players union, which felt it had already bent over backward to allay concerns about steroid use, twice agreeing to open up the 2002 collective bargaining agreement to strengthen penalties for drug users. Predictably, the players union balked. Frank Thomas and Jason Giambi were the only active players who talked to Mitchell...
...Still, there is a way the Feds could benefit from the unusual partnership: Mitchell and his team do much of the legwork, pinpointing who used illegal drugs and who distributed them. Then, if the government wants to press criminal charges against a specific person, it can subpoena the evidence in the report, the investigators, Mitchell, whomever, and pursue the case...