Sentences with phrase «subpoena power for»

One commenter argued that the provision would limit the scope of the Inspector General's subpoena power for judicial and administrative proceedings to information concerning a litigant whose health condition or history is at issue, and would impose a requirement that the Inspector General provide a written certification to that effect.

Presiding Officer William Lindsay (D - Holbrook) said the committee, which met behind closed doors, interviewed potential candidates for special counsel and discussed seeking subpoena power for the committee.

He said the committee may ask the legislature to vote on procedural motions at their Aug. 3 meeting to fund the counsel position and authorize subpoena power for the committee.

(The AG does NOT have subpoena power for public integrity cases, which is something Cuomo tried to change in the wake of Troopergate, but has declined to provide to his successor, AG Eric Schneiderman, now that he's governor).

Not exact matches

That doesn't necessarily mean the two have to attend and defend their pricing strategies, but if they don't right away, Congress has the power to issue a subpoena for them to testify.

The organization doesn't have subpoena power, and if you're not a current coach or player, there's no real mandate for you to talk to them.

That's not good enough for the Senate Republicans, who say they will use the subpoena power vested in the legislative committees to compel the company to testify.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has also subpoenaed Con Ed and LIPA for plans and performance records on restoring power, communicating with customers without power and other aspects of the utilities» responses to the storm.

State spokesman David Neustadt said the commission issued the subpoenas Wednesday for Consolidated Edison Co. and the Long Island Power Authority.

«I think there is a sense that the acquisition of great wealth is a value in and of itself and rules are for chumps,» said Brodsky, who spent much of his 20 years rooting out corruption as a crusading committee chairman with subpoena power.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

A battle already is underway, with 15 contenders vying for the $ 194,243 - a-year post, with the power to subpoena, indict and prosecute violent criminals and corrupt politicians.

After Andrew Cuomo unceremoniously shuttered the Commission, the subpoenas were withdrawn — until U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara's office incorporated the work into its own investigation, resulting in charges of «using the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars of bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.»

A spokesman for the committee chairman said the panel might use its subpoena power to gather information if the Justice Department doesn't meet the new deadline.

The single - source contract began in May 2016, after NYPA was served with a grand jury subpoena related to Competitive Power Ventures, the energy company that employed Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., who prosecutors say bribed ex-Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco in exchange for official actions.

As attorney general, when he was the one investigating crimes rather than running the executive branch, he sought increased powers for public corruption, pressing legislators to pass a bill granting his office broad jurisdiction and subpoena powers to pursue such cases.

But he's plainly been missing the fight: He has joked that he wishes he still had subpoena power — and for a man who's always loved the spotlight, being on the sidelines is frustrating, people who've talked to him say.

«This either is an opportunity for the governor to redeem himself for the mistake of shutting down the first (corruption) commission or a move to control an investigation into his own administration,» Dadey said, noting the possibility that Schwartz could find himself sending a subpoena to the same executive who granted him subpoena power.

I urge the County Legislature to use its subpoena power, if necessary, to bring the leadership of the ECWA to Old County Hall to answer for their failures on this issue and others at a public hearing.»

Its 25 commissioners, most of whom are district attorneys, were designated deputy attorneys general to give them subpoena power over the legislative branch, although lawyers for the political arm of the Senate Republican caucus are trying to quash another subpoena for political records.

«I hope they'll use their subpoena power to absolutely put people on the stand and ask for the truth,» Wisneski said.

A 1994 tobacco case State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota v. Philip Morris et al proved the RICO law to be valuable not for racketeering convictions, but for its subpoena power to find and weaponize internal documents, which, in the case of the tobacco industry found documents that led to the fourth largest lawsuit money settlement in all of history, anywhere.

The kicker in all this, according to the EFF, is that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III then used this delay in obtaining these records to argue to Congress for administrative subpoena power.

For instance, my understanding is that the special counsel has wide - ranging power to issue subpoenas, but do those have to be approved by the justice department?

On the other hand, McLane Co. is certainly a setback for employers and strengthens the EEOC's ability to conduct wide - ranging administrative investigations through its subpoena power.

These discovery and subpoena tools are all basically derivative of the common law trial subpoena power, and certain other powers that were vested in courts of equity, which is constitutionally recognized in federal criminal trials in the 6th Amendment which includes a right «to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor» and applies in civil trials by tradition, court rule and statute.

ATSIC should also be provided with subpoena powers and the ability to call government departments to appear before the ATSIC Board to account for their performance on delivering services to Indigenous peoples.