Sentences with phrase «use subpoena power»

By using its authority under section 6 (b) of the FTC Act, the agency will be able to use its subpoena power to discover what is really going on.

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

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.»

He also says the Council should use subpoena power to haul city officials before its hearings to testify.

Congress might have the authority to use its subpoena power to compel a mental examination of the President at that stage (i.e. after the cabinet triggers the process and the President resists it) in furtherance of its deliberative duty under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, but that is far from obvious.

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.

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.

He warned that unless the Legislature made real changes in ethics laws, he would use the subpoena powers of the Moreland Act to expose the dirt.

That message suggests that the chamber plans to resist the panel's request to hand over the material, a tactic that could push the commission to use its subpoena powers to seek documents or compel witnesses to appear.

Smith's critics say he misrepresents facts, cleverly casts doubt on legitimate studies by claiming they are based on «secret data» and uses his subpoena power to help industry battle state and federal regulators and environmental groups.

In its release, the FTC explains that its investigation would be able to expand on existing studies into trolling by using its subpoena power to force the trolls to disclose the nature of their corporate and legal practices.

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The investigator can also use the EEOC's subpoena power to compel cooperation.

It pretty much boils down to this: Schneiderman, through intermediaries, reportedly tried to get Cuomo to use his executive power to issue a so - called «blanket referral» that would give the AG subpoena power in corruption cases.

To protect the Committee's fundamental rights under the United States and New York State Constitutions against the partisan use of state power, the Committee requests that the Court quash the subpoena and issue a protective order directing that the Committee need not respond to the subpoena's remaining demands.»

Cuomo used his authority under state law to appoint a panel with sweeping subpoena powers only after the Legislature refused to pass his anti-corruption bills.

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.»

Mr. Bharara encouraged commissioners to make full use of their subpoena power, develop cases worth prosecuting and avoid overlooking minor offenses.

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.

She also aggressively seeks to use the courts» subpoena power and international agreements to obtain documents and information from foreign - based sources, when necessary.