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Illinois Attorney General Sues S&P Over Ratings, Alleges Fraud

Reuters | Posted 03.26.2012

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* Lawsuit: S&P issued inflated ratings to boost market share * McGraw-Hill unit sued in Cook County, Illinois court ...

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PHOTOS: Grants Could Help Cash-Strapped Chicagoans Stay In Historic Homes

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 10.29.2011

Got a drafty bungalow? A local nonprofit hopes energy-efficient updates can help cash-strapped Chicagoans weather the downturn and keep their historic...

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Quinn Signs Law To Keep Gun Owner Names Private

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.01.2011

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After months of heated debate, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Saturday signed a law that will keep the names of licensed gun owners private. The l...

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Mortgage Lenders Investigated In Two States Over Robo-Signings

AP | Posted 07.25.2011

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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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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on The Interview Show (Video)

Mark Bazer | Posted 07.13.2011

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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan stopped by The Interview Show to discuss what exactly the attorney general does.

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Stalking: Know It. Name It. Stop It.

Lisa Madigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Law enforcement officers need strong tools to stop stalkers not only from physical confrontations but also from emailing, texting or harassing their victims on social networking sites.

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Horrible Lessons of the Great Recession Remind Us How Much More Needs to Be Done

Lisa Madigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The release of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's final report confirms what some of us have been shouting for the past several years: It did not have to happen, and it must not happen again.

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Still No Word From Illinois Attorney General On Meter Lease Deal Investigation

The Expired Meter | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was May of 2009. That's when Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan opened a consumer fraud investigation into the Chicago parking meter lease d...

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Mortgage Companies: Playing Loosely With the Rules of Foreclosure

Lisa Madigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ninety years ago, Kafka took aim at government. Today, he surely would find equal targets in Chase, Wells Fargo, GMAC and Bank of America.

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Failure to Test Rape Kits is a National Embarrassment

Lisa Madigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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For a country that pioneered DNA testing as a crime-fighting tool, the failure to test rape kits is a national embarrassment. But we can change the situation, and we have done so in Illinois.

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Jim DeRogatis: What's Behind The Attorney General's Investigation Of Lollapalooza?

Vocalo.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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The revelation that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is investigating the giant three-day Lollapalooza festival in Grant Park came as a shock to...

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A Vaccine Against Debt Settlement Sickness

Lisa Madigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The signing into law of my office's initiative -- the Illinois Debt Settlement Consumer Protection Act -- will provide Illinois consumers with the strongest protection in the nation against the abuses of debt settlement companies.

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Joe Birkett Drops Bid For Attorney General, Calls Race Against Madigan 'Virtually Unwinnable'

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett is dropping his campaign for Illinois Attorney General, saying that a race against incumbent Lisa Madigan w...

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Authorities Pose No Obstacle to Shady AIDS Charity

ProPublica | Posted 11.17.2011

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The case is a window into the fractured and often ineffective oversight of nonprofits.

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Attorney General Lisa Madigan Opens Investigation Into Chicago Parking Meter Deal

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 05.25.2011

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Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan has opened an investigation into the "transaction and implementation" of Chicago's parking meter privatization ...

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Illinois AG Madigan Asks Top State Court To Remove Blagojevich

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI and CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Illinois plunged deeper into turmoil Friday over disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich as the attorney general asked the state's highest cour...

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Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General And "Candidate 2", Says She Spoke To Blagojevich Once This Year (VIDEO)

HuffPost | Dan Duray | Posted 05.25.2011

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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan appeared on MSNBC this afternoon to reiterate the fact that she preferred to keep her distance from the disgra...

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Countrywide Subpoenaed By Illinois Over Lending Practices

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Illinois attorney general is investigating the home loan unit of Countrywide Financial as part of the state's expanding inquiry into dubious lendi...

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