{"id":74522,"date":"2016-10-26T17:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T21:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74522"},"modified":"2016-10-26T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:55:03","slug":"new-york-supreme-court-orders-exxonmobil-to-comply-with-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74522","title":{"rendered":"New York Supreme Court orders ExxonMobil to comply with subpoena"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman\"<\/a>In an important decision concerning Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman\u2019s investigation of Exxon Mobil for potential state law violations, including under the Martin Act, today the Hon. Barry R. Ostrager ordered Exxon Mobil (\u201cExxon\u201d) and its outside auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (\u201cPwC\u201d), to comply with a subpoena issued by the Attorney General\u2019s office in August 2016. The subpoena seeks documents related to PWC\u2019s work for Exxon.<\/p>\n

On Oct.\u00a014, 2016, Schneiderman moved to compel production by PwC after Exxon asserted that it would not permit PwC to provide certain documents to the Attorney General\u2019s Office. Exxon based its refusal to comply on a Texas statute that Exxon asserted creates an \u201caccountant-client privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n

After noting that \u201c[a]ll parties agree that this Court is the proper forum\u201d to hear challenges to the Attorney General\u2019s subpoena, the New York Court ruled that Exxon\u2019s interpretation of the Texas statute is \u201cflawed,\u201d and stated that the Texas statute in no way precludes PwC from producing the documents requested by the Attorney General\u2019s office. The Court also stated that New York law, rather than Texas law, governed the dispute. The Court ordered PWC and Exxon to comply with the subpoena expeditiously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased with the Court\u2019s order and look forward to moving full-steam ahead with our fraud investigation of Exxon,\u201d said Schneiderman. \u201cExxon had no legal basis to interfere with\u00a0PwC\u2019s production, and I hope that today\u2019s order serves as a wake up call to Exxon that the best thing they can do is cooperate with, rather than resist, our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Court\u2019s Order is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an important decision concerning Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman\u2019s investigation of Exxon Mobil for potential state law violations, including under the Martin Act, today the Hon. Barry R. Ostrager ordered Exxon Mobil (\u201cExxon\u201d) and its outside auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (\u201cPwC\u201d), to comply with a subpoena issued by the Attorney General\u2019s office in August 2016. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,23814,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-state","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-jnY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?fit=260%2C221&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}