{"id":327035,"date":"2026-08-21T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327035\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:00:12","slug":"court-rules-sarcone-unlawfully-obtained-subpoenas-directed-at-ny-attorney-generals-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327035\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rules Sarcone unlawfully obtained subpoenas directed at NY attorney general&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/search?find=john+sarcone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Sarcone<\/a> did not have legal authority to obtain two grand jury subpoenas directed at the New York State Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the ruling released by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The court says Sarcone\u2019s interim period as U.S. attorney expired in July 2025. Federal judges declined to appoint a U.S. attorney after that interim period. However, the Justice Department took steps to keep him on in an acting capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The subpoenas sought documents and communications related to the Attorney General\u2019s Office\u2019s cases involving the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump. The opinion does not say James herself was subpoenaed.<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 office alleged the subpoenas were retaliatory, but the court did not rule on that claim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/woman-plotted-attack-on-new-york-state-capitol-in-support-with-isis-investigators-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE: New York Capitol, political leaders targeted in foiled attack plot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 John Sarcone did not have legal authority to obtain two grand jury subpoenas directed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-327035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}