NEC Business Network Solutions said it’s cooperating with a Dept....

NEC Business Network Solutions said it’s cooperating with a Dept. of Justice investigation of the E-Rate program, so its CEO won’t honor a subpoena to testify next week before a House panel investigating fraud in the federal program to subsidize school and library Internet connections. A source said a House Commerce Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing on E-rate was scheduled for July 22. “It is our expectation that there will be further developments in the grand jury investigation over the next several weeks,” CEO Thomas Burger told the House Commerce subcommittee on investigations, and he might be freer to talk in Sept. NEC, which released the letter Thurs., agreed to plead guilty and pay a $20.6 million fine in connection with allegations of defrauding school districts, Reuters reported.