Court orders company to comply with special counsel subpoena in mystery grand jury

Court orders company to comply with special counsel subpoena in mystery grand jury appeal

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 6:02 PM ET, Tue December 18, 2018


(CNN)Four days after attorneys secretly argued over a grand jury subpoena suspected to be related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election, a federal appeals court is forcing an unnamed company to comply with the subpoena.

The appeals court did not identify the company, nor did the appellate judges say the subpoena was related to the Mueller investigation. The company that sought to quash the subpoena is owned by a foreign country, the ruling Tuesday said.

But the hearing Friday came after several other secretive court clashes between Mueller's team and the company that received the subpoena, apparently over a grand jury action.

The US Circuit Court in DC had locked down an entire floor of the courthouse Friday to prevent disclosure of the lawyers' identities.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

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Foreign company in possibly Mueller-related secret case heads to Supreme Court

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The unnamed company owned by a foreign country that is challenging a grand jury subpoena issued in federal court in Washington is asking the Supreme Court to step in.

This week, “Company A” lost its challenge against having to comply with a grand jury subpoena that many believe has been issued by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the challenge by the company to quash the subpoena.

On Saturday, the company asked the Supreme Court to intervene and stay the lower courts’ decision — and has also asked that the case remain under seal.

The company is also asking the Supreme Court to halt the continuing fines it is incurring for not complying with the subpoena, an effort the D.C. Circuit also rejected this week.

Legal expert Steve Vladeck said on Twitter that if the Supreme Court takes up the case and keeps it under seal, it will be the first time the highest court in the land has conducted plenary review, including oral arguments, under seal.

On Thursday and Friday, there was sealed action in the case at the D.C. Circuit. The D.C. Circuit denied a motion filed by the company, but no other information regarding the motion was revealed.

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Supreme Court to discuss Mueller-related mystery case behind closed doors Friday

This is just unbelievable. What happened to "transparency"? What happened to an investigation to reveal the truth about what happened, if anything, during the 2016 Presidential campaign? What American company ever gets such a secrecy protection all the way to the US Supreme Court? This is ILLEGAL!! Release the name of the company and the country Mueller claims owns it.