Sentence examples for were subpoenaed for from inspiring English sources
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants that were taken over by the government this month, said Monday that they were subpoenaed for documents as part of federal grand jury investigations into their accounting.
In the spring of 1997 both the auction houses and a dozen top art dealers were subpoenaed for truckloads of documents, including datebooks, phone lists and correspondence.
But presidents have certainly been subpoenaed for information or testimony before.
He was subpoenaed for the trial, forced to testify under penalty of perjury, and declined comment afterward.
Thomson Reuters has not been subpoenaed for the information nor has it been notified of a formal S.E.C. investigation, a person briefed on the matter said.
"Imagine returning from a successful hunting trip... only to find out that you've been subpoenaed for killing your prize," one online commentator railed.
Joseph C. Wilson IV, the former ambassador who is married to Ms. Plame, said on Friday that neither he nor his wife had been subpoenaed for the grand jury.
Furthermore, lawyers for Och-Ziff, the fund run by Mr. Och that was subpoenaed for its records, argued in court documents that the S.E.C. had received and sifted through all of this same data two years ago.
When the diplomat was subpoenaed for information, he invoked immunity through the embassy's Washington-based lawyers, who threatened to seek unspecified "sanctions" under the Vienna Convention unless the request was dropped.
The company's accountant, Arthur Andersen, has been subpoenaed about communication it had with the White House about Enron, while the board members are being subpoenaed for documents pertaining to communications they had with various government agencies, Ms. Phillips said.
The Times has not been subpoenaed for Mr. Risen's office phone records, although there are other ways that the department could obtain them, possibly by a subpoena to phone companies without any notice to the newspaper.
