Word: subpoenaed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racketeering laws to seize any attorney fees paid with illgotten gains. In a Colorado case last month, a federal judge disallowed such seizures, saying they violate a defendant's right to the legal representation of his choice. But last week in New York, another federal judge allowed prosecutors to subpoena information about the source of the fee paid to a lawyer in a narcotics case. Said Judge David Edelstein: "In the same manner that a defendant cannot obtain a Rolls-Royce with the fruits of a crime, he cannot be permitted to obtain the services of the Rolls-Royce...
...represented by Haim Zadok, a former Israeli Minister of Justice; Sharon was represented by Dov Weisglass, a Tel Aviv lawyer. At the outset of the examination, Zadok learned that he would not be permitted to see testimony gathered by the commission's investigators, who had the power to subpoena witnesses and require them to testify...
...journalists have long fought, usually successfully, to prevent their back ground materials from being taken for use as evidence in court trials because such involvement seriously impinges on the ability to gather news. Nor would Kowet have needed to spend his own money fighting the subpoenas: when he left TV Guide, his tapes and notes became the property of the magazine, which later refused a Westmoreland subpoena for them...
...evaluate the charges, the grand jury demanded to see some of Marc Rich & Co.'s files. The firm refused, contending that a Swiss company need not honor a U.S. subpoena and that, in any case, the transactions among its divisions were made according to fair-market prices. Last fall Judge Sand issued a contempt citation against the company. He ordered a $50,000 fine for each day that it failed to release the documents, a penalty that could total $27.5 million by the time the grand jury disbands. In June, Marc Rich & Co. secretly sold its U.S. division...
...investigation into how Reagan's political advisers got Jimmy Carter's debate briefing book, Michigan Congressman Donald Albosta, angry at White House refusals to give his subcommittee total access to all campaign files, threatened to use his subpoena power. The White House offered Albosta copies of documents turned up by the FBI, and said it would provide wider access only if Albosta also looks into dirty tricks in the Carter campaign...