Word: subpoenaing
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...actions last week underlined an unusually high level of cooperation between Justice and the SEC, which has limited subpoena powers and a more complex bureaucracy to navigate. Attorney General John Ashcroft emphatically announced that Justice was raising the stakes, declaring that "corrupt corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray their employees and steal from their investors." He noted that the WorldCom executives could face as much as 65 years in prison, which legal experts dismissed as prosecutorial hyperbole. Yet as former federal prosecutor and Los Angeles white-collar defense lawyer Mark Beck notes, "The criminal sanction...
...Enron controversy spreads to Harvard as Corporation member Herbert S. Pug Winokur ’64-’65 receives a subpoena from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for his connection with Enron’s collapse. He was then the chair of Enron’s finance committee...
...Enron controversy spread to Harvard as Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 receives a subpoena from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate’s Government Affairs Committee for his connection with Enron’s collapse. He was the chair of Enron’s finance committee...
...briefed last November, has now become the focus of a huge political row in Washington. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee--including Republican Arlen Specter, who had an angry exchange over the memo with FBI Director Robert Mueller on Saturday--are desperate to see it, and may yet subpoena it. "The fact that the Phoenix memo died on somebody's desk takes your breath away," says Senator Richard Durbin, a Democratic committee member from Illinois. "They just shuffled...
...according to a reliable account. "The people are entitled to an explanation." Specter then called committee chairman Patrick Leahy at his farm in Vermont, and the two men agreed to summon Mueller--and the memo--to Capitol Hill this week and, if he refuses, hit him with a Senate subpoena. If the White House tries to fight the move, says a G.O.P. source, "as many as 20 Republican senators" would vote to enforce the subpoena...