In Re Grand Jury Subpoenas Addressed to Sentinel Financial Instruments

OPINION

TENNEY, District Judge.

This is a motion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 17(c) by Sentinel Financial Instruments (“SFI”) and Michael Senft (“Senft”), a principal of SFI, to quash grand jury subpoenas requiring the production of SFI business documents. The subpoenas were served on SFI and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (“Wachtell, Lipton”), SFI’s counsel. The movants claim that Senft is entitled to assert his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to immunize SFI’s records from production and that the documents in possession of Wachtell, Lipton are protected by the…