I'll say this one more time. A civil suit does not guarantee anything, including access to records. If one noted a deposition (not a disposition) duces tecum (in Latin, "bring with you" for the witness to produce documents, the deponent (i.e., witness) could, again, invoke his protection under the Fifth Amendment, on the grounds that the response (in this case, production of records) may tend to incriminate him. In Dirty Joe's case, he would be foolish not to invoke that privilege, because even in his circumstance as an incompetent CEO/CoB/Pres, there likely are acts or omissions that could subject him to criminal liability. If he "lawyers up" in a civil suit, the lawyer will instruct him to invoke, and if he does not lawyer up, he likely would ignore any service of process, assuming service even could be effected.