I have one question then....
well, if you know the reason for the subpeonas, you don’t want to get your fingers sticky. that’s why.
He has a conflict because HE himself used the press to leak information that was to the benefit of him or the White Hut.
He doesn’t want any of his bitches in the press to turn on him and rat him out.
Most likely it was he who leaked the story that started the whole Investigation to begin with. So they could then claim they needed to look thru phone and email records of the prestitutes.
Sooner or later one of the Vipers in that den is gonna get bit.
Why? To create plausible deniability.