California Attorney General

In State AG Campaigns, Foreclosure Often The Missing Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Beau Biden, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage Settlement, State Attorneys General, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, Bob Ferguson, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Regulation, Foreclosure Settlement, Kathleen Kane, Politics News

NEW YORK -- The nation's attorneys general flexed their legal muscles earlier this year when they signed off on a $25 billion national mortgage settle...

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Shocker: $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Expires

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage Settlement, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Bank of America, Foreclosure, National Mortgage Settlement, Citigroup, Business News

The promises made by five of the nation's largest banks under the much-ballyhooed $25 billion mortgage settlement have a surprisingly short shelf life...

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A Major Setback For Kamala Harris

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Homeowner Bill of Rights, Mortgage Settlement, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Kamala Harris Foreclosures, Mortgage Fraud, Kamala Harris Homeowner Bill of Rights, San Francisco Foreclosure Report, Kamala Harris Bills, California Homeowner Bill of Rights, Video, San Francisco News

For the nearly two years that Kamala Harris has been California's Attorney General, she has made the fight against fraudulent foreclosures her signatu...

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Pressure Mounts On This Man

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Principal Reduction, Edward Demarco, Federal Housing Finace Authority, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, Fhfa, Loan Write-Downs, Foreclosure Settlement, Business News

Having failed to get Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on board helping struggling homeowners in California, Attorney General Kamala Harris is trying a new t...

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California Still Not Joining National Mortgage Settlement

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Financial Fraud, Subprime Crisis, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage Settlement, National Mortgage Deal, Housing, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, Housing Crisis, Business News

One day after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was named co-chairman of a federal mortgage fraud task force, California Attorney General Ka...

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California Arrests Two For Scamming Distressed Homeowners

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Video, California AG, Loan Modifications, Foreclosure California, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Guardian Credit Services, Green Credit Solutions, Federal Trade Commission, Christopher Fox, Curtis Melone, Business News

Two owners of a Southern California-based loan modification company were arrested Tuesday on charges that they scammed thousands of distressed homeown...

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Kamala Harris Defends Medical Marijuana

AP | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Kamala Harris Medical Pot, Kamala Harris Ca Medical Marijuana, Kamala Harris Pot, Kamala Harris Weed, Ca Attorney General, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris Medical Marijuana, Kamala Harris Marijuana, California Attorney General, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Kamala Harris California Medical Marijuana, California Medical Marijuana, San Francisco News

SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors should be careful not to overreach in their crackdown on California's pot dispensaries, even though there are amb...

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Report: California AG Subpoenas Bank Of America

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Video, California Attorney General, Countrywide Financial, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Business News, Bank-of-America-Toxic-Asset-Sale, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Big Banks, Bank of America Mortgages, California Ag Bank of America, Business News

The California state attorney general's office subpoenaed Bank of America Corp this week regarding the sale and marketing of troubled mortgage-bac...

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How to Lose Your Home: Curing My Perception Deficiency

Alex Brant-Zawadzki | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Home Defenders League, Housing Crisis, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, San Francisco News

On Tuesday I got a phone call from my buddy Guillermo. "Hey man," he said, "You should come down to the Attorney General's office this afternoon. Some...

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What Has Kamala Been Up To?

| Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Kamala Harris Crime, Kamala Harris Crime Database, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris Statewide Crime Database, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, San Francisco News

This story comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Ryan Gabrielson California Attorney General Kamala Harris wants the state’s police dep...

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Mortgage Lenders Investigated In Two States Over Robo-Signings

AP | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Lender Processing Services, Illinois Attorney General, Robo-Signers, Robo-Signing, California Attorney General, National Title Clearing, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Robo-Signers Foreclosure, Business News

LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors in California and Illinois are investigating allegations that Lender Processing Services Inc., one of the nation's largest ...

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Brazilian Blowout Gets Heat From CA Policy Makers

| Christina Jewett | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Brazilian-Blowout-Danger, California Brazilian Blowout, Brazilian Blowout Law Suit, California Attorney General, Brazilian Blowout, Brazilian Blowout Formaldehyde, Los Angeles News

Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Christina Jewett Multiple state, federal and independent advocacy watchdogs have issued alerts, inv...

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California Attorney General Asks Court To Lift Gay Marriage Ban

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Gay Marriage, California Gay Marriage Ban, Proposition 8, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Gay Marriage, Los Angeles News

SAN FRANCISCO — California's attorney general on Tuesday joined lawyers for two same-sex couples and the city of San Francisco in asking a feder...

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Kamala Harris and Reality Win Attorney General Race

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Karl Rove, California, Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, Republican Party, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Politics News

Overcoming the opposing campaign's best efforts to game the vote count, plus a million dollar attack by Karl Rove, Harris is slated to become the first African-American and first female Attorney General in California.

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As Predicted: Republican Dirty Tricks in the California Attorney General Race

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Karl Rove, California, Kamala Harris, 2010 Elections, California Attorney General, Elections 2010, Democratic Party, California Attorney General Race, Politics News

Ben Franklin said that nothing is certain except death and taxes -- but then Ben lived before there was a Republican Party to make the political dirty trick every bit as predictable.

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Cooley, Harris Still Fundraising As Ballots Are Counted

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Ryan Gabrielson The race for California attorney general continues in full even as Election Day fa...

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Prepare for Republican Dirty Tricks in the California Attorney General Squeaker

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, California, Steve Cooley, Kamala Harris for Attorney General, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Politics News

As we watch the final vote count in the oh-so-close District Attorney race between Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris, watch for a California replay of Bush-Gore 2000.

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Medical Marijuana Advocates and Others Unite to Oppose Steve Cooley as California Attorney General

Steph Sherer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Marijuana, Steve Cooley, Proposition 8, Not Cooley, Prop 8 Cooley, Marijuana, 2010 Elections, California Attorney General, Elections 2010, Americans for Safe Access, Steve Cooley California, Los Angeles News

The most important race for medical marijuana patients in California on November 2nd is for the State Attorney General's office.

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Big Business Targets 'Female Obama'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kamala, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Female Obama, Video, Politics News

Corporate cash is flooding into the California attorney general's race, a sign both of the growing emphasis that big business is putting on state-leve...

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Attorney General Race Heats Up: Cooley Accused Of Corruption

Los Angeles Times | Phil Willon and Jack Leonard, Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Cooley, Los-Angeles-District-Attorney, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, the San Francisco district attorney, on Thursday amped up her attacks on the environmental record of GOP rival Steve...

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Breakdown In Talks Between City Of Bell And State

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bell California, California Attorney General, Jim Humes, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The California attorney general's office says it will go to court to ask for an outside monitor to oversee affairs in Bell after n...

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California's $4 Million Rollercoaster Ride

James Clark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death Penalty, Execution, California Budget Crisis, Jerry Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Attorney General, Albert Greenwood Brown, Los Angeles News

California's death penalty has always been a bit of a head-scratcher, but the news over the last two weeks may have the record for furrowed brows and ...

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AG Candidate Kamala Harris Claims Rival Chris Kelly Violated California Election Law

Sacramento Bee | Jim Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Kelly, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

A complaint filed with the state's political watchdog agency this week claims that Chris Kelly violated state election law in donating nearly $10 mill...

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Will Kamala Harris' Death Penalty Opposition Cost Her?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death Penalty, California Attorney General, California Attorney General Race, Kamala Harris, Los Angeles News

The following story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Timothy Sandoval In her campaign to become California's next attorney general, Democratic...

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Villaraigosa To Endorse Kamala Harris For AG

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antonio Villaraigosa, Kamala Harris, California Attorney General, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to announce his endorsement Friday in the California attorney general race, and it's not going to b...

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