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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is warning struggling homeowners about mortgage rescue companies. Madigan on Tuesday announced that she's filed seven new lawsuits against businesses she says offered false hope to homeowners trying to keep their homes. She's now filed 22 lawsuits against such companies. The latest lawsuits were filed in Cook, Sangamon and Winnebago counties. They target mortgage...
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Illinois Atty. General Lisa Madigan says the chance is "less than zero" that Gov. Rod Blagojevich will offer her President-elect Barack Obama's former seat in the U.S. Senate. Madigan on Tuesday said she doesn't think she was even being considered and she's thinking instead about a possible run for Blagojevich's job. The Chicago Democrat also said she liked her job as attorney general. Blagojevich...
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Direct (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
A firm that allegedly preyed on small businesses, cramming their phone bills with charges, has been slammed with a lawsuit by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
The state has subpoenaed road-salt suppliers for bidding information in connection with an investigation of why salt prices have as much as tripled this year, the Illinois attorney general said Monday. Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan and her staff met with about 50 municipal representatives Monday to get information about their bidding processes and provide preliminary findings based on initial interviews...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Worried whether or not things in Illinois will be on the up-and-up when you cast your vote tomorrow? Have no fear, State Attorney General Lisa Madigan is on the case. According to The Lisa, 166 investigator teams will fan out across the state to monitor the election and make sure everything is good to g: no voting irregularities or voter fraud, to name a few.. Northern Illinois will get a large majority...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says 166 teams of investigators throughout the state will be monitoring the general election. Madigan says it's to ensure that voting rights are protected on Tuesday. On Sunday Madigan's office announced that 125 teams will be assigned throughout northern Illinois including Chicago. Another 41 teams will observe activity in the rest of the state. Investigators...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is again facing renewed pressure to examine the cases of some alleged victims of police torture. This comes after former Chicago police commander Jon Burge was arrested on federal charges related to the torture. Attorney Flint Taylor has spent the last 20 years representing some of the alleged victims. Taylor says Attorney General Madigan and other government...
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan announced today her office has filed a lawsuit aimed at a now-defunct bassinet maker that allegedly continued to supply dangerous bassinets despite knowing that they had caused at least one child's death. The bassinets were made by Simplicity. The suit was filed against SFCA Inc., which bought the assets of Simplicity earlier this year. In September, the Tribune reported...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Brian J. McPartlin quit as Illinois Tollway director last week. But he can't start his new job with a politically connected engineering consulting firm quite yet. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the Illinois Ethics Commission to delay approving McPartlin's request to join Chicago's McDonough Associates, a firm that has done millions of dollars of work with the Tollway. McPartlin, 42,...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who's considering a run for governor in 2010, isn't exactly giving Gov. Rod Blagojevich a ringing endorsement for a third term. Asked Thursday whether fellow Democrat Blagojevich should run again, given his 13 percent approval rating in a Tribune poll, Madigan offered the following: "I'm sure the governor has many things on his mind and whether or not he ends...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
(AP) -- Attorney General Lisa Madigan says Illinois will receive $3 million from a $60 million settlement with Pfizer over the marketing of the drug maker's pain relievers Celebrex and Bextra. The settlement between New York-based Pfizer and 33 states, along with the District of Columbia, follows a five-year investigation. The states alleged Pfizer misrepresented facts about potential side effects...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Many south suburban municipalities are wishing they had stockpiled more road salt last year now that they face huge cost increases and worry that dwindling supplies may not get them through another snowy and icy winter. Meanwhile, they are appealing to Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan to investigate the high salt prices, which the officials said threaten to bust their budgets and put the public in...
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Vincent G. Rinn Law Library (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
On October 6, law suits originally brought against Countrywide Financial ( acquired by Bank of America) by Attorneys General Lisa Madigan of Illinois and Jerry brown of California, later joined by several other states and the City of San Diego,...
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The Portland Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Shell Oil and its joint venture, Motiva Enterprises, agreed Wednesday to crack down on cigarette sales to minors at more than 13,000 independent retail outlets, including in Oregon, said Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
