Critical in the case against Mr. Quattrone will be whether an e-mail message he endorsed, directing department members at First Boston to follow the firm's document-retention policy, constituted an effort to obstruct a government investigation.
The case against Mr. Quattrone, who helped take companies public during the boom, hinges on whether an e-mail message he endorsed, directing department members at Credit Suisse First Boston to clean up their files, constituted an effort to obstruct a government investigation.
Before the jury begins its deliberations on whether Mr. Quattrone's one-line e-mail message on Dec. 5, 2000, was an effort to obstruct a government investigation into First Boston's handling of initial stock offerings, Mr. Quattrone will have one more chance to make his case.
He asserts that firing his former FBI director in an effort to obstruct an investigation into himself was correct, even though it led to a special counsel and has put him in serious legal and/or political jeopardy.
They have been leading a determined effort to obstruct the formal appointment of Edward Luck, a professor at Columbia University, as a special UN adviser on the issue.
"I don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation I had with the President was an effort to obstruct," he replied, adding, "I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning.
Trump also continued his effort to obstruct the Russiagate investigation, an effort now focused on using whiny tweets to try to get Jeff Sessions to resign, so he can pick a new attorney general who will oversee, and maybe fire, Bob Mueller.
While still giving credit for cooperation, Justice Department policy now states flatly that "prosecutors should not take into account whether a corporation is advancing or reimbursing attorneys' fees or providing counsel to employees," unless the fees are part of an effort to obstruct justice, such as making their payment conditioned on supporting "a false version of events".
Feb. 23, 2016, 5 30 p.m. Bernie Sanders blasted what he called Republicans' "unprecedented" effort to obstruct President Obama in Congress, drawing a connection during a town hall Thursday to Donald Trump questioning the president's Hawaii birthplace.
He is likely collecting a pile of evidence, much of it unknown to Trump, to piece together a picture of an ongoing effort to obstruct the Russia investigation.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers joined issue this afternoon in the retrial of Frank Quattrone Frank Quattrone, with the government insisting that Quattrone's December 2000 message to his investment banking team was a considered effort to obstruct federal investigations and the defendant saying it was nothing more than a gentle prod to do right, delivered hastily at the end of a busy day.
