On the House floor: Nancy Pelosi admits she was served with 'third-party subpoenas' in federal criminal case

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been subpoenaed in a "third-party" criminal case based in California.

The official House rules require members to notify the speaker in writing if they are served with a subpoena. That notification, the rules say, "shall promptly be laid before the House."

On Wednesday, House Reading Clerk Tylease Alli read from the House floor the notification that Pelosi submitted.

"This is to notify you formally pursuant to Rule VIII of the rules of the House of Representatives that I, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita, and U.S. representative for the 11th Congressional District of California, have been served with third-party subpoenas from the prosecution and the defendant to produce documents in a criminal case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California," the statement read.

"After consultation with the Office of General Counsel, I have determined that compliance with the subpoenas is consistent with the privileges and rights of the House," the statement continued. "To the extent it requires production of non-privileged information, the responses to the subpoenas will be identical. Signed, sincerely, Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita."

Unfortunately, neither the clerk nor Pelosi provided additional details, such as the case for which Pelosi has been subpoenaed. Pelosi's office declined to comment.

Fox News reported that the subpoena is related to the criminal case involving David DePape, the man accused of brutally attacking Pelosi's husband inside their San Francisco residence last year.

DePape's federal trial for the alleged assault is set to begin next week. The venue is the northern district of California.

In pretrial motions, a witness in the case sought to avoid testifying at trial. In court documents, that person is referred to as "Target 1" because his or her legal name has been redacted. It's not clear who that person is, but we know it's not Nancy Pelosi.

The federal indictment against DePape alleges that "Target 1" was "way up" on his target list and that DePape "had a plan to use Speaker Pelosi to lure Target 1" to himself.

As the case prepares for jury selection next week, federal Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley hinted Wednesday that normal San Franciscans will not be familiar with the identity of "Target 1," saying, according to Politico, "the odds that Target 1 is known are going to be slim."

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