From California Watch:
Failed solar panel maker Solyndra, which got nearly $535 million in taxpayer loans, was subpoenaed by a grand jury as part of a federal investigation, according to court documents filed by the Fremont company’s lawyers.
Billing records submitted by San Francisco-based K&L Gates LLP, Solyndra’s special counsel, include legal work related to the subpoena. The records were filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware earlier this month. According to the law firm’s 18 pages of billing records, which cover September 2011 to the end of November, the U.S. attorney’s office, FBI and Department of Energy are all investigating Solyndra’s bankruptcy.
The company’s lawyers indicated that a grand jury subpoena was first handed down in November, according to the billing records, which showed attorneys spending more than five hours on a Nov. 18 conference call with the U.S. attorney’s office “regarding response to grand jury subpoena.” The billing records, which show K&L Gates billed Solyndra nearly $150,000 for three months of work, also revealed that the FBI seized electronic documents as part of its investigation and that Solyndra’s lawyers were called to the FBI’s San Francisco bureau to “review documents.” The U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco declined to comment.
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