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30 Oct, 2006 11:05 am
... confirms that funds were inappropriately used. John Van de Kamp, a Los Angeles district attorney and an a former state attorney general, has been appointed as the independent monitor who
will oversee the charitable trust for one year. ... Has jurisdiction to investigate alleged mismanagement of assets belonging to nonprofit schools and hospitals. The California
Attorney General's Office provides the following checklist
for registering a chairtable trust: · Contact information for organization (i.e ...
18 Sep, 2007 10:45 am
... Tort Reform Association president Sherman "Tiger" Joyce proposed new voluntary standards designed to improve government transparency and accountability when state attorneys general hire outside counsel to litigate on behalf of state residents. ... stipulates that the funds shall be allocated to a specific entity. At no time, shall an attorney general enter into a settlement that allows the office of the
attorney general to disseminate funds at its discretion. What about Indiana's Attorney General? A ...
28 Oct, 2008 11:05 pm
... online fraud as state consumer protection laws often offer greater protection to consumers than federal laws. To date, state action against online fraudsters has been limited-for example, in the past three years, state attorney generals have ... , the same number as the Federal Trade Commission. The Report offers a number of strategies to assist a state attorney general's office,
such as additional training of investigators and prosecutors on how to identify online fraud and abuse, enhanced computer ...
1 Jan 1:53 am
... companies. Well the more I think about it the more questions I have about the New York State Attorney General's involvement. Couldn't this AG involvement be viewed as a device to give ... Wall Street Journal
article said: Over the summer, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo began brokering an agreement between the recording industry and ... helpful." As the RIAA worked to cut deals with individual ISPs, Mr.
Cuomo's office started working on a broader plan under which major ISPs would agree ...
31 Jul, 2008 2:48 am
... Web site. "Convicted sex offenders have no business in that kind of environment," state Attorney
General Tom Corbett said. -Why, MySpace has other adults on it, and 95% ... and local probation and parole officers to allow them to
search for possible violations. The Attorney General's Child Predator Unit has identified 185 MySpace
... basis." -The truth is out, earlier RSO did nothing wrong. Frederiksen said the office continues to press MySpace about sex offenders who
use phony names on the site. -Oh ...
28 Oct, 2007 7:20 am
... that the U .S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform on Wednesday proposed a new code of conduct for state attorneys
general. The Chamber has directed its ire for some time against lawyers representing those who are injured, and now they have spread their net
to influence the manner in which the chief law enforcement officer in a state should operate. Interesting, and worrisome for those who
need protection. The key to all this is the administration of justice, ...
29 Jun 9:04 am
... whether ambiguity in the National Bank Act left the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency free to preempt state fair lending litigation originally brought by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. In applying the administrative deference ... here and here, of giving free reign to federal banking regulators to squelch the consumer
protection efforts of state attorneys general. While the long-term impact of the decision is
yet to be clear, the opinion is likely to embolden some state AGs ...
4 Feb 8:00 am
January 13, 2009 UnitedHealth Group Inc. settled with the New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo after a probe of the independence of its database used to set reimbursement rates for patients' medical bills. The probe ... . The
agreement contains no admission of wrongdoing. Cuomo is waiting on the outcome of current lawsuits filed by other parties before his office
takes its own actions to pursue restitution. Related Topics: Insurance Fraud and Bad Faith Attorney -- Portland, Oregon, Personal ...
23 Feb, 2007 12:46 am
New report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute: State attorneys general are among the
most powerful office holders in the country. Unlike governors and legislators, each state's top
elected lawyer has fewer institutional checks on his or her powers. Yet, with...
7 Jun 12:25 am
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office through the
Division of Consumer Affairs conducts investigations and files suits on behalf of the state against various businesses alleged to have
potentially committed acts in violation of New Jersey Law. As an example, there was a press release on June 5, 2009 indicating that the state
files suits against Air Duct Cleaning Services. The defendants, United Air Care, Inc. and Indoor Air Care, LLC were alleged to ...
10 Oct, 2008 10:50 pm
... of the PPM have sough relief from a number of state and local governments, with the Attorneys General of New York and New Jersey filing suit to prevent the initiation of service by Arbitron. The office of New
York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo issued ... on to claim that the disparate effect of the claimed
inaccurate measurements on minority and ethnic stations violated the state's anti-discrimination laws. Arbitron of course denies these claims.
The lawsuits have received substantial coverage in ...
11 Aug 3:22 pm
... CNN.com has the story. Lisa Madigan, the Attorney General of Illinois, believes that Wells Fargo
has turned Latino and African-American communities into hotbeds of subprime lending. She stated that the high foreclosure rates in these communities are ... practices responsible
lending and does not use race as a factor. Pate & Brody is an accomplished Georgia law firm with offices in Atlanta, Macon and Madison. Our lawyers are dedicated to pursuing
justice for crime victims, people who have been ...
16 Jan, 2007 7:55 am
... open season on cheating spouses. The ruling is especially awkward for Attorney General Mike
Cox.... In November 2005, Cox confessed to an adulterous relationship. The AG's office didn't take kindly to the snark: Cox's spokesman, Rusty
Hills, bristled at the ... 's opinion couldn't be cited as justification for bringing first-degree criminal sexual conduct charges against the attorney general. "Well, yeah," he said. Adultery could mean life, court finds [Detroit Free ...
16 Jan, 2007 7:55 am
... open season on cheating spouses. The ruling is especially awkward for Attorney General Mike
Cox.... In November 2005, Cox confessed to an adulterous relationship. The AG's office didn't take kindly to the snark: Cox's spokesman, Rusty
Hills, bristled at the ... 's opinion couldn't be cited as justification for bringing first-degree criminal sexual conduct charges against the attorney general. "Well, yeah," he said. Adultery could mean life, court finds [Detroit Free ...
10 Sep, 2007 10:08 pm
Inevitable, given the relentless accumulation of power in their offices: At a panel discussion last month in Washington, D.C., Colorado Attorney General John Suthers (R) said lobbying of state law enforcers has
become increasingly common since 45 attorneys general in...
4 Dec, 2007 4:15 am
[JURIST] Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett [official website] said Tuesday that Pennsylvania
and several other states will file lawsuits against tobacco company RJ Reynolds [corporate website] for violating an agreement not to use cartoon characters to advertise tobacco
products. A press release [text] from Corbett's office said the suits are in response to a multi-page ad for Camel
4 May, 2008 6:48 am
Marc Dann is Ohio's Attorney General and he is a buffoon. We elected him on his populist rants and an
anti-Republican vote stemming from corruption in then Governor Taft's office. He became the darling of the national media because he...
27 May, 2008 2:58 pm
Earlier today Express Scripts Inc. reached an agreement with the offices of 28 states--including Illinois--to pay $9.5 million for misleading consumers by encouraging docs
to switch patient's cholesterol drugs "under the guise of controlling costs." Through the agreements, state attorneys...
18 May, 2004 2:11 pm
Former Democratic governor of California and current Oakland mayor Jerry Brown has officially filed papers to run for California Attorney
General in 2006. Four others are bidding for the position, now held by Democrat Bill Lockyer, who will be leaving office due to term limits. Tuesday's Oakland Tribune has more.
15 Sep 5:28 am
The buzz is that another ACORN undercover film will surface today as the expose of ACORN's "culture" spreads from office to office.BigGovernment.com will have whatever it is first, so keep checking for it.With exposes...
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