{"id":192241,"date":"2009-04-24T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/24\/congress-threatens-subpoena-over-boa-threats\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T22:51:00","slug":"congress-threatens-subpoena-over-boa-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/24\/congress-threatens-subpoena-over-boa-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Threatens Subpoena Over BoA Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis&#8217; testimony before NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been released, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/40325\/dems-threaten-to-subpoena-geithner-bernanke-over-bofa-merrill-lynch-deal\">members of Congress want the documents to investigate<\/a>, and are threatening a subpoena if they don&#8217;t get them.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who the Domestic Policy subpanel, are demanding that all relevant documents be turned over to them, and they are threatening a subpoena:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The implications of Mr. Lewis\u2019 testimony, if accurate, are extremely serious. Under these circumstances failure to comply with the Subcommittee\u2019s request raises the prospect that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">we will be forced to consider compulsory means <\/span>to achieve compliance with our request. However, we would prefer your voluntary compliance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/ken-lewis-says-that-paulson-and.html\">said before<\/a>, it sounds to me like Paulson and Bernanke broke the law, and a full investigation would be a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">very good idea<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Hell an <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">indictment<\/span> would be a very good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis&#8217; testimony before NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been released, members of Congress want the documents to investigate, and are threatening a subpoena if they don&#8217;t get them. Representatives Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}