Word: subpoenaing
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Harvard Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 received a subpoena from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations along with 51 others for their connection to the Enron Corporation, which collapsed in bankruptcy in early December...
...Though there are no firm rules on how long accounting firms must retain documents, most hold on to a wide range of them for several years. Any deliberate destruction of documents subject to subpoena is illegal. In Arthur Andersen's dealings with the documents related to Enron, "the mind-set seemed to be, If not required to keep it, then get rid of it," says Ken Johnson, spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose investigators first got wind of the Oct. 12 memo and which is pursuing one of half a dozen investigations of Enron. "Anyone who destroyed...
...Arthur Andersen, criminal charges could result if it can be shown that its executives ordered the destruction of documents while being aware of the existence of a subpoena for them. A likely ploy will be for prosecutors to target the auditors, hoping to turn them into witnesses against Enron. Says Coffee: "If the auditors can offer testimony, that would be the most damaging testimony imaginable...
Summers refused to outline situations in which the University would fight a subpoena in court, or speculate whether Harvard would serve as a party to a test case...
According to the Los Angeles times the FBI and INS have invoked this clause in their investigation, meaning that they can ask Harvard for confidential student information without a subpoena...