Word: subpoenaed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visited Israel last week, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir still insisted that the Pollard affair had been a "rogue" operation undertaken without the government's knowledge. Two weeks ago, the Israeli Cabinet reluctantly appointed a two-member committee to investigate the case, but failed to give it the power to subpoena witnesses. Last week the committee appeared to be near collapse after an attorney for three Israelis implicated in the case advised his clients not to testify. In the meantime, a second official inquiry, conducted by the Knesset's intelligence subcommittee, was reportedly making progress in secret session...
Poindexter himself appeared under subpoena yesterday before a House subcommittee which wanted to question him about the Reagan administration's computer-security policy. He refused to answer any questions, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination, as he had when questioned in December about his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair...
...Northrop said it had given him $450,000 in bribes for Saudi generals. Khashoggi denied the allegations that he had asked for bribe money, but the accusations did not endear him to the Saudi ruling family. In 1976 and '77 the Securities and Exchange Commission attempted several times to subpoena Khashoggi as part of its investigation into arms companies. Khashoggi stayed away from the U.S. for nearly two years, but later came back to give a voluntary deposition...
...information, he said, is "opening moredoors that we have to send a subpoena through inorder to [compile] accurate information...
...based Jefferies & Co. investment firm, which specializes in assembling large blocks of stock in takeover targets. Jefferies recently supplied Canadian Raider Robert Campeau with $1.8 billion worth of stock in Allied Stores, a move that eased a $3.6 billion takeover of the retail chain. Jefferies has acknowledged receiving a subpoena, and told the New York Times that he was innocent of wrongdoing. Also served was Michael Singer, 37, a former Jefferies senior vice president who | switched in October to the Manhattan-based Salomon Brothers investment firm. Singer resigned his new post last week, but said, "I have done nothing wrong...