"Our next step would have to be reaching the commission's members to try to get past this continued attack on our office by Mr. Grandeau," Darren Dopp, who is Mr. Spitzer's chief spokesman, said after the two sides squared off at the 3 p.m. meeting in the lobbying commission's offices.
In what appears to be another, particularly brazen part of the cover-up, that memo appears never to have reached the commission.
If an agreement cannot be reached, the commission could file suit against Unocal in federal court or in its own administrative law court.
If settlements are not reached, the commission's staff could choose to issue a notice of reasonable cause against each of the former Spitzer aides, which is essentially a formal complaint that would lay out the commission's case.
Brokers may have reached for commissions, and compliance may have suffered.
The European Parliament passed the law, one of the most complex and far-reaching commission regulations ever, after years of haggling marked by intense lobbying by the European chemicals industry and by protests from environmentalists who sought more restraints on the industry.
Before reaching Jeffrey Simmons, chief commissioning editor of WH Allen, the typescript of the former had been rejected by five mainstream publishing houses.
As the findings and the statement make clear, these issues were taken into account by the commission in reaching its conclusion.
"We are greatly concerned that the EU commission is reaching out to tax income that no member state had the right to tax," he said.
But in June the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that in reaching this conclusion, the commission did not comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, a law that mandates that environmental impact studies be issued before such a finding is reached.
This year, for the first time, a nation's truth commission is reaching outside its borders to collect narratives, according to Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, which is coordinating the process.
