30 June 2021: NY Assembly Impeachment Lawyers to Get Subpoena Power

Assembly to issue subpoenas coming in Cuomo impeachment probe

The attorneys conducting New York Assembly's impeachment probe got a boost by gaining the authority to issue subpoenas to compel testimony:

The lawmaker in charge of the impeachment probe into Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that the Assembly Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas as it investigates allegations of sexual harassment against the governor and other scandals.

Assemblyman Charles Lavine (D-Nassau) also said that the independent law firm conducting the investigation will be allowed to “act as a commission,” meaning lawyers will have the ability to take “testimony from witnesses under oath.”

The firm, Davis Polk, has so far collected more than 100,000 pages of records, including emails, transcripts, texts, letters, contracts and other documents, and is seeking more information to corroborate existing evidence, Lavine said during a brief public update.

No word emerged on how long it might be before the Assembly's bottomless, endless impeachment probe might produce any findings.