Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court orders be obtained before banks, credit card companies and other firms turn over information about individual accounts to police, FBI and other Government investigators. Unless the judge was persuaded that secrecy was necessary, the person being investigated would have to be notified and given time to fight the subpoena in court...
OFTEN ANTAGONISTS, the mayor and the city councilors easily unite over this issue because it is not a struggle of pol against pol, but of the pols against an independent investigator. With its broad mandate and the power to subpoena witnesses and records, no agency or individual is immune from its inspection. The finance commission exposed Kerrigan several years ago when he chaired the Boston School Committee. Kerrigan and other school committee members, following a tradition in Boston politics that precedes even the infamous Honey Fitz's career, squeezed the city employees they supervised for money through testimonial dinners...
...white shirt and red tie ("It makes people want to stand up and salute"). His car is filled with hats of all styles - deeply valued props. Another prop consists of a wife and two children. The Blye family drives up to a house and, as the detective notes, "even subpoena-shy people are usually helpful to a man with a wife and kids...
Meanwhile, with their customary secretiveness, Summa executives and Hughes' former aides and doctors are ducking subpoena servers sent out by Rhoden. Among other things, the lawyer is trying to establish whether Hughes actually could have left the Desert Inn and ended up some 150 miles from Las Vegas, where Dummar says he found him. So far, Rhoden has managed to collar only two executive assistants for depositions. Testifying under oath, the two gave contradictory accounts...
...acted in response to the urging of Richard Nixon's aides in effectively aborting an early investigation, in 1972, by Texas Congressman Wright Patman's Banking Committee into the Watergate bugging-burglary. Ford has readily conceded that he did help persuade Republicans on the committee to deny subpoena power for the planned investigation, thereby crippling it. But he denied at his vice-presidential confirmation hearings in 1973 that he had acted under White House direction. Even if he had, it would have been routine and reasonable for Ford, who was House Republican leader at the time...