By Chris Browning, Siran Faulders and Stephen Rosenthal ( October 18, 2017, 1:47 PM EDT) -- The federal government and virtually every state and territory have the authority to issue civil investigative demands (CIDs) requiring the recipient to produce documents and provide written responses in a government investigation. CIDs are extraordinarily powerful weapons in a government's investigative arsenal. While statutes vary among jurisdictions, generally there is a low threshold for a state attorney general to issue a CID, and CIDs can be sweeping in scope.[1] Moreover, the consequences of failing to appropriately respond to a CID can be catastrophic....
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