Word: subpoenae
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Road, where he and his brothers collect art and lavishly entertain visiting mob chieftains. Those that didn't fade were mortally embarrassed by the subpoena servers. "They went around to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker," complained Joe Adonis. "They made slurring remarks...
...having their names always available in University Hall. Motivated by a perfectly natural if not altogether rational fear of the forces of orthodoxy, they are reluctant to put their lists in the hands of the Dean's Office. Dean Watson has admitted that he could not refuse a subpoena of the lists; so that even if one assumes that the Dean's Office will hold the lists inviolate in every other case, there is this one case in which the lists might be delivered up for outside scrutiny...
...committee was naturally anxious to ask Harry Russell to explain his panacea, and did its best to subpoena him. But Harry just couldn't be found; he sent word that he remembered what happened to Kansas City Gangster Charles Binaggio, who was killed after talking to the authorities. Neither could the other partners in the S & G be found, nor Dog Track Magnate William H. Johnston, the man who gave the governor the 150 Gs. Like all good things, crime investigation could be carried a little...
...reticence has not prevented the law from checking up on some of his business enterprises. Take Jack's last job: one of his associates told the cops all about it to avoid being electrocuted at Sing Sing. It took place in 1939, after Gangbuster Tom Dewey slapped a subpoena on a onetime garment-union leader named Philip Orlofsky. Orlofsky knew a lot about the union rackets, and Mob Chieftain Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter was disturbed. He ordered Orlofsky's death. Parisi was chosen to do the honors...
...nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone, I will perform that duty under subpoena ... I will not discuss anyone in private with any government investigator...