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Microsoft has subpoenaed PlayStation for its defence against FTC lawsuit
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The information, which Microsoft believes is relevant to its case, may include confidential details that Sony would be reluctant to share with its rival if possible.
“Negotiations between SIE and Microsoft as to the scope of SIE’s production and a discovery schedule are ongoing,” the filing reads.
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Following a week-long extension, Sony has until January 27 to move to limit, quash or otherwise respond to the subpoena.
In December, the FTC announced plans to sue Microsoft in a bid to stop its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which the regulator argues would enable the company to “suppress competitors” to its Xbox console, subscription content and cloud gaming business.
Among other concerns, the FTC and Sony have expressed worries that the deal could significantly reduce PlayStation’s ability to compete, given that it would see Microsoft gain ownership of the Call of Duty series, which Sony has called “irreplaceable”.
In their responses to the FTC’s complaint, Microsoft and Activision have argued that their merger would be procompetitive and benefit consumers by making the Call of Duty publisher’s games more broadly available.
In a bid to address regulatory concerns, Microsoft recently said it had offered Sony a 10-year, legally enforceable contract to make each new Call of Duty game available on PlayStation the same day it comes to Xbox.
The FTC said earlier this month that there had been no “substantive” settlement talks with Microsoft over the proposed acquisition. If it goes to trial, the case will be judged during hearings set to take place in August 2023.
Special counsel Smith has subpoenaed officials in all 7 states targeted by Trump allies in 2020 election
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Special counsel Jack Smith has issued a subpoena to local officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, for information related to the 2020 election, a spokesperson for the county told CNN.
“Yes, we received a subpoena from the Department of Justice’s special counsel regarding the 2020 election. We have nothing further to share or provide,” said Amie Downs, the county’s communications director.
The subpoena sent to Allegheny County is the latest in a string of requests for information sent by Smith, who is now overseeing the Justice Department’s sprawling criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Smith’s team has now sent subpoenas to local and state officials in all seven of the key states – Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – targeted by former President Donald Trump Trump and his allies as part of their bid to upend Joe Biden’s legitimate victory.
Those efforts included putting forward slates of pro-Trump electors and filing baseless lawsuits. CNN reported this summer that the DOJ issued numerous subpoenas and was seeking information in all seven states where Trump’s campaign convened the false electors as part of the effort to subvert the Electoral College.
In November 2020, Trump’s campaign team fought in court to throw out over 10,000 absentee ballots in Philadelphia and Allegheny counties that were missing dates or names. Those attempts were rejected by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, which argued in its opinion that “while constituting technical violations of the Election Code, [the mistakes] do not warrant the wholesale disenfranchisement of thousands of Pennsylvanian voters.”
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania’s second largest, helped carry President Joe Biden to a 81,000 vote victory in the state.
The recent subpoenas come as a group of election security advocates have called for Smith and other federal agencies to investigate a series of voting system breaches in multiple states carried out by allies of Trump after the 2020 election.
The group has requested a federal probe into what it calls a “multi-state conspiracy to copy voting software,” pointing to reported breaches in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith last month to oversee parts of the Justice Department’s criminal investigations into attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the retention of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. He will likely be tasked with making policy decisions around whether to charge Trump.
Smith and his team of 20 prosecutors are moving fast in the pair of criminal probes. Since Thanksgiving, he has brought a number of close Trump associates before a grand jury in Washington, including two former White House lawyers, three of Trump’s closest aides, and his former speechwriter Stephen Miller.
This story has been updated with additional information.
Several Trump associates subpoenaed in Justice Department’s Jan. 6 probe
A grand jury has subpoenaed several associates of former President Donald Trump in connection with the Department of Justice’s investigation into the origins of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, multiple people familiar with the case told CBS News.
It is not yet clear how many subpoenas were issued.
The Justice Department is looking into the Trump team’s fundraising between the 2020 presidential election and Jan. 6, 2021, and how that money was used. That investigation is separate from the inquiry into the former president’s handling of classified documents, which resulted in the FBI seizing materials from his Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
The department’s probe of the attack on the Capitol has accelerated over the last week.
William Russell, a close adviser to Trump, received a subpoena Wednesday related to the investigation.
Russell, 31, was often seen by Trump’s side, serving as White House deputy director of Advance and Trip Director. He was with the former president for part of the day of the riot and moved to Florida to continue working for Trump after his presidency.
FBI personnel visited Russell’s Florida home for questioning Wednesday morning but he was out, according to a person familiar with the matter. Investigators later reached him by phone and served a subpoena via email.
A lawyer for Russell, Derek Ross, did not reply to a request for comment.
Russell, a Mississippi native, started working at the White House in 2017.
A spokesperson for Trump criticized the investigation, claiming the Justice Department was attempting to “intimidate” the former president’s supporters.
“It will not work. Save America is more committed than ever to working for liberty, free and fair elections, equal justice under the law, strong borders, safe streets, energy independence, great education, and more,” said Liz Harrington, the spokesperson.
Tesla subpoenaed over Elon Musk’s tweets … again
Tesla (TSLA) disclosed in a quarterly regulatory filing Monday that it received a new subpoena from the SEC on June 13, related to “our governance processes around compliance with the SEC settlement.” That settlement, which stripped Musk of his title as chairman of Tesla while allowing him to remain as CEO, came because of Musk’s 2018 tweet that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private.
The SEC charged that despite discussions with Saudi investors, Musk did not have the funding secured to take Tesla private. As part of that settlement, Musk agreed to the charge and also agreed to submit any future tweets containing information that could be material to investors to other executives at Tesla for approval.
Musk has been bitterly critical of the SEC since that settlement. At a TED conference earlier this year, Musk said he agreed to a settlement only because if he continued to fight the agency, Tesla’s banks would have cut off funding at a time when it needed cash.
He went on to compare the experience to having someone point a gun to his child’s head.
Musk’s lawyers also filed complaints with the federal judge overseeing the settlement complaining that the SEC is attempting to “chill his exercise of First Amendment rights” because Musk is an “outspoken critic of the government.”
In addition to its investigation of Musk’s role at Tesla, the SEC is looking into his tweets about his effort to buy Twitter (TWTR). The agency sent a letter to Musk on June 2 with questions about his tweets related to the buyout effort, including his those about the deal being paused, according a Thursday regulatory filing. The agency had already questioned Musk in an April letter about his apparent delay in disclosing his large ownership stake in Twitter.
Tesla had previously disclosed a subpoena related to an SEC probe of the settlement in November 2021. Tesla wrote in the Monday filing that the company “routinely” cooperates with regulatory and governmental probes, including subpoenas. The SEC did not have a response to questions about its latest subpoena to Tesla.
Also in Monday’s filing Tesla provided more details about its cryptocurrency holdings. The company said its remaining bitcoin and other crypto currency assets had a carrying value of $218 million as of June 30, down from $1.26 billion at the end of last year. Last week in its earnings report Tesla disclosed that it had sold 75% of its bitcoin stake during the second quarter.
Bitcoin has lost nearly half of its value in the first half of this year. Tesla said it took a charge of $170 million for the loss in value of its crypto investments, while at the same time recording a $64 million gain on the holdings it did sell for more than their original purchase price.
During the call with investors last week Musk said the sale of bitcoin was prompted by the need to maintain the company’s cash reserves due to costs from having its Shanghai plant shutdown for most of the quarter by Covid lockdowns. He also noted costs associated with starting up new plants in Texas and Germany which he previously described as “gigantic money furnaces” due to supply chain problems that kept their early output “puny.”
Musk said the company had not lost faith in bitcoin, and noted that it had not sold holdings in another digital currency, dogecoin, during the quarter.
The company will have needs for additional cash going forward. The filing also disclosed plans to spend between $6 billion and $8 billion on capital expenses, such as equipment, construction and other large ticket items this year as well as the next two years. That’s up $1 billion from the range it had previously said it planned to spend annually in those years.
— CNN Business’ Clare Duffy contributed to this report.
Ginni Thomas could be subpoenaed by January 6 committee, says Liz Cheney
Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who serves as the vice chair of the committee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on Sunday that the committee is speaking with Thomas’ counsel.
“We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. I hope it doesn’t get to that. I hope she will come in voluntarily,” Cheney said. “So it’s very important for us to speak with her and as I said, I hope she will agree to do so voluntarily but I’m sure we will contemplate a subpoena if she won’t.”
The committee has asked Thomas, a conservative activist, to meet with the panel and provide documents that could be relevant to the investigation. The committee has email correspondence between Thomas and former President Donald Trump’s election attorney John Eastman, as well as texts between her and Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The texts show Thomas urging Meadows to continue the fight to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Eastman and Meadows have also been subjects of the committee’s investigation.
A lawyer for Thomas said in a letter to the House select committee last month that he “does not believe there is currently a sufficient basis to speak with” Thomas.
No decision yet on criminal referrals of Trump
Cheney also said the committee has not decided whether it will make criminal referrals of President Donald Trump, but that she believed Trump violated the oath of office and it is “absolutely something we are looking at.”
“I think that Donald Trump, the violation of his oath of office, the violation of the Constitution that he engaged in, is the most serious misconduct of any president in the history of our nation. I think that, as I said, the committee has not decided yet whether or not we’ll make criminal referrals. That’s something we take very seriously. And I would also say that the Department of Justice certainly is very focused based on what we see publicly on what is the largest criminal investigation in American history. But there’s no doubt in my mind that the President of the United States is unfit for further office.”
Cheney also said she believes the missing Secret Service texts are “deeply troubling.”
“I also know that what we saw in terms of what’s happened over the course what we’ve become aware of over the course of the last several weeks is deeply troubling,” she said. “We will get to the bottom of it.”
Cheney on her future
Cheney said her work on the January 6 committee “is the single most important thing I’ve ever done professionally,” telling Tapper that even if she loses her upcoming race for reelection because of her committee work, there was “no question” it was still worth serving on it.
She called her primary race, “a highly unusual moment, certainly in American politics.”
“I will also say this, I’m not going to lie. I’m not going to say things that aren’t true about the election,” she said. “My opponents are doing that certainly simply for the purpose of getting elected … if I have to choose between maintaining a seat in the House of Representatives, or protecting the constitutional republic and ensuring the American people know the truth about Donald Trump, I’m going to choose the Constitution and the truth every single day.”
This story has been updated to include more from Cheney’s interview.
Giuliani, Eastman, Graham among those subpoenaed in Georgia election probe
The subpoenas also cover a handful of the Trump campaign’s other former legal advisers, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell and Kenneth Chesebro.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been leading the investigation digging into Trump’s actions in Georgia. Several state officials have already been subpoenaed and have appeared before the special grand jury.
But the latest raft of subpoenas marks a new phase, as the grand jury seeks testimony from witnesses who were members of Trump’s inner circle.
Willis has been investigating potential crimes including solicitation of election fraud, making false statements, conspiracy, racketeering and threats related to election administration. The special grand jury does not issue indictments but rather collects evidence and issues a report on whether Trump or any of his allies should face charges. If it recommends an indictment, Willis could then pursue an indictment from a regularly seated grand jury in Fulton County.
The special grand jury wants to hear from Graham because the Republican senator allegedly made two calls to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the wake of the 2020 election. According to court filings, Graham “questioned Secretary Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.”
The filing also states that Graham brought up allegations of widespread voter fraud, which have been widely debunked. A spokesperson for Graham did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Giuliani is one of a handful of witnesses who were subpoenaed related to their appearance before Georgia state lawmakers in December 2020. During his early December appearance, Giuliani provided testimony, witnesses and so-called evidence that demonstrated voter fraud, according to court filings. Even after those allegations were investigated and disproven, Giuliani “made additional statements, both to the public and in subsequent legislative hearings, claiming widespread voter fraud in Georgia during the November 2020 election,” by re-upping the same previously debunked evidence, according to court filings.
“There is evidence that the Witness’s appearance and testimony at the hearing was part of a multi-state coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” according to court filings.
Bob Costello, Giuliani’s attorney, said his client has not yet received a subpoena and declined to comment further.
The grand jury also wants to hear from Ellis about her appearance before Georgia lawmakers peddling debunked election fraud claims, according to court filings. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Similarly, Willis’ team subpoenaed Jacki Pick Deason, whom court filings described as an attorney for the Trump campaign’s legal efforts. Deason presented heavily edited video before Georgia lawmakers in that December 2020 hearing that purportedly showed election workers producing “suitcases” of illegal ballots, according to court filings. That allegation was investigated by state election officials and quickly proven to be false.
Deason “possesses unique knowledge concerning communications between herself, the Trump campaign, and other known and unknown individuals involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” according to the court filings.
Willis has also been scrutinizing the plot to try to put forth a fake slate of pro-Trump electors in Georgia. In the latest round of subpoenas, investigators signaled an interest in hearing from both Eastman and Chesebro for their alleged roles in pushing the fake elector plan.
Eastman testified before Georgia lawmakers in December 2020, during which “he advised lawmakers that they had both the lawful authority and a ‘duty’ to replace the Democratic Party’s slate of presidential electors,” and made unfounded claims of voter fraud, according to court filings. An attorney for Eastman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Chesebro allegedly coordinated with Georgia Republican Party and Trump campaign officials to help prepare the slate of fake electors. According to court documents, Chesebro provided a Microsoft Word template for Georgia Republicans to use in a December 2020 meeting where they cast their bogus Electoral College votes. Chesebro also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mitchell is of interest to the grand jury because she was on the now infamous call where Trump pressed Raffensperger to “find” the nearly 12,000 votes necessary for Trump to win in the Peach State, which he lost to Joe Biden. Mitchell also parroted claims of voter fraud on the call, the court filing noted. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This story has been updated with additional details.
Trump’s social media company gets subpoenaed
Federal securities regulators and a federal grand jury in New York have subpoenaed former President Trump’s social media company as part of their investigations into its pending deal to go public via a blank-check company called Digital World Acquisition Corp., according to a Friday disclosure.
The big picture: Certain current and former members of Trump Media & Technology Group were also subpoenaed, but no specific individual names were disclosed.
Why it matters: The investigation continues to expand and could delay or prevent TMTG from going public.
- Subpoenas previously were issued for members of the blank-check company.
- At issue is whether or not Digital World Acquisition held merger talks with Trump Media prior to its own IPO, which would have violated securities law.
- Trump Media operates the Truth Social app, led by former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). It also has ambitions to expand into video and other media.
Trump Media is subpoenaed in federal inquiry of Truth Social deal.
The investigation by federal prosecutors and securities regulators into a proposed merger between a cash-rich blank check company and former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company has gotten closer to Mr. Trump’s end of the deal.
Federal prosecutors served grand jury subpoenas on Trump Media & Technology Group and “certain current and former TMTG personnel,” according to a regulatory filing on Friday by Digital World Acquisition, the special purpose acquisition company that has a tentative deal to merge with Trump Media.
Grand jury subpoenas are typically issued in connection with a potential criminal investigation. The filing said the Securities and Exchange Commission also served a subpoena on Trump Media this week.
Just days earlier, Digital World revealed that it, too, had received a grand jury subpoena from federal prosecutors in Manhattan along with similar subpoenas served on its board of directors.
The grand jury subpoenas appear related to earlier S.E.C. subpoenas on Digital World that sought communications concerning potential merger talks with representatives of Trump Media before Digital World’s initial public offering in September.
The regulatory filing on Friday said the grand jury subpoenas served on Trump Media were “seeking a subset of the same or similar documents demanded in subpoenas to Digital World and its directors.”
The expanding investigation threatens to delay the completion of the merger, which would provide Mr. Trump’s company and its social media platform, Truth Social, with up to $1.3 billion in capital, in addition to a stock market listing.
The S.E.C. investigation has focused on whether there were serious discussions between the leadership of Digital World and Trump Media before the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, went public in September and, if so, why those talks were not disclosed in regulatory filings. SPACs, which raise money to go public in the hopes of finding a merger candidate, are not supposed to have an acquisition target in mind when they raise money from investors.
Regulators have also requested information about trading activity in securities of Digital World before the merger announcement in October. A few weeks before the merger announcement, there was a big surge in trading of Digital World warrants — a type of security that gives the holder the right to buy shares at a specified price.
Trump Media is based in Sarasota, Fla., and is led by Devin Nunes, the former Republican congressman who became chief executive officer this year. Mr. Trump, who has a licensing deal with the company, is chairman.
In a statement, Trump Media said it “will continue cooperating fully with inquiries into our planned merger and will comply with subpoenas we’ve recently received, none of which were directed at the company’s chairman or C.E.O.”
It is unclear which current and former personnel at Trump Media received subpoenas.
Truth Social, a Twitter-like platform, remains the primary product of the company. Mr. Trump, over the past few months, has become a frequent poster on the platform.
This week, he used the platform repeatedly to criticize the testimony of a former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, before the congressional Jan. 6 committee.
Trump Media has called Truth Social a “free expression” alternative to Twitter, which permanently barred the former president from using its platform after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.