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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...
...investigation began on a shoestring in June 2001, when the attorney general's office, inspired in part by a Wall Street Journal article, issued a subpoena to Merrill asking for documents related to GoTo.com and another Internet company, InfoSpace. Spitzer dusted off the Martin Act, a 1921 New York statute that allows the attorney general's office to launch broad investigations of securities companies. "Martin," Spitzer concedes, "is generous to prosecutors." His interest picked up the following month when he learned that Merrill Lynch had settled promptly and magnanimously with a New York City pediatrician who charged that...
...first shot had been fired. But Spitzer was not done. His office led an effort to subpoena e-mail from a dozen other investment banks. The cases were later parceled out for several other states to pursue: California got Deutsche Bank, for example; Massachusetts got CSFB. The SEC jumped in after the Merrill settlement, and Spitzer and the SEC's director of enforcement, Stephen Cutler, began working on a comprehensive deal to settle all 12 cases at once...
...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...