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  • Rice donor could become courtroom opponent

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Rice ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General-hopeful Kathleen Rice has received substantial contributions from a top executive at a company being sued by current state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office.

  • Cuomo's allegations 'implausible,' ex-CEO says

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Former Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has filed what some are calling an "aggressive response" to a civil fraud lawsuit from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

  • Cuomo: Company did the right thing by settling

    By Keith Loria |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that he has reached settlements totaling $10 million with numerous discount clubs that allegedly tricked consumers into signing up for deals that contained hidden fees.

  • Cuomo still tops Siena poll

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Cuomo LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo maintains leads of more than 30 percentage points against his Republican opponents, according to the newest poll results.

  • McGraw jumps on LCD lawsuit bandwagon

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has joined a growing number of state attorneys general who are suing the world's largest manufacturers of liquid crystal display, or LCD, panels.

  • Rice the richest of N.Y. AG candidates

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Rice NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General candidate Kathleen Rice continues to lead her competitors in the race to raise campaign funds.

  • Former NYC comptroller supporting Schneiderman for AG

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Schneiderman NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York attorney general-hopeful Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat from Manhattan, continues to garner support for his campaign.

  • Cuomo, home security company resolve suit

    By Keith Loria |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday that he has settled with a Utah-based home security company that allegedly tricked homeowners into signing contracts.

  • More AGs take note of LCD issue

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    McKenna SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna announced Thursday he is suing the makers of Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp and five other brands of liquid crystal displays screens.

  • Cuomo expands health care lending investigation

    By Keith Loria |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - In an expansion of last week's industry-wide probe on health care lending companies, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that he has subpoenaed more health care clinics and credit card companies.

  • N.Y. AG-hopeful has history of donations, state work

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Sean Coffey, a Democrat running for New York attorney general, has made thousands of dollars in campaign contributions nationwide in the last 10 years, according to a review of his political donations by the Wall Street Journal.

  • Cuomo alleges LCD price-fixing scam

    By Keith Loria |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that he has filed an antitrust lawsuit against a number of major technology companies.

  • Cuomo probes health care credit cards

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday his office has issued subpoenas to 10 health care providers statewide and four financial institutions in an investigation into predatory health care lending.

  • N.Y. AG-hopeful comes clean on past drug use

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Rice NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Kathleen Rice, the Democratic candidate for New York attorney general, admitted Tuesday to trying both marijuana and cocaine in college.

  • Cuomo probes six more life insurers

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed six additional insurers as the State continues its probe into whether life insurance companies have defrauded families of deceased military members.

  • Collection company settles harassment allegations

    By Keith Loria |
    Cuomo BUFFALO, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that he has reached a settlement with a debt collection company accused of violating federal and state debt collection laws.

  • Newsday report shows weak voting record by N.Y. AG candidate

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Rice NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Kathleen Rice, a Democratic candidate for New York attorney general, did not cast her first ballot in an election until 2002 -- nearly two decades after she first registered to vote.

  • Thirteen states want to intervene in EPA suit

    By Keith Loria |
    Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday that, as part of a 13-state coalition, he has filed a motion in a federal appeals court in favor of a new environmental regulation limiting greenhouse gases.

  • N.Y. AG candidate receives support from Alec Baldwin

    By Jessica M. Karmasek |
    Baldwin NEW YORK CITY (Legal Newsline) - Democrat Eric Schneiderman has picked up an endorsement from a bona fide Hollywood star.

  • Financial reform passes

    By John O'Brien |
    Miller WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A group of Democratic state attorneys general are excited that President Barack Obama signed federal financial reform legislation into law Wednesday.