Alberto Torrico (D) LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) -- A state lawmaker and Democratic candidate for California attorney general will hold a legislative hearing Monday to probe how loan modification programs are affecting communities of color.
WILMINGTON, Del. - Three men from Argentina accusing chemical maker DuPont of exposing them to asbestos in Argentina have invoked American jurisdiction pursuant to a treaty that President Franklin Pierce signed in 1853.
Andrew Cuomo (D) NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo released a comprehensive report Thursday that analyzed 2008 bonuses for the nine banks that received Trouble Asset Relief Program financing from the U.S. government.
Andrew Cuomo (D) NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York's attorney general has announced assurances of discontinuance with two securities firm that detail how they have and will provide liquidity to investors who purchased auction-rate securities.
Martha Coakley (D) BOSTON (Legal Newsline)- Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has reached a settlement with Merrill Lynch over claims the company misled the city of Springfield into unlawfully investing into auction-rate securities.
U.S. Supreme Court building WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)- State attorneys general can investigate national banks but they cannot on their own subpoena financial institutions that have branches in other states, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Jerry Brown (D) SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a massive $1.5 billion suit against San Francisco-based banking giant Wells Fargo on Thursday.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Misleading investors about the safety of the auction rate securities market has lead to fines of more than $309,000 for two investment firms in Delaware.
Spitzer WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court has decide to consider if New York Attorney General's Office should be investigating the mortgage lending practices of some national banks.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)--As Capitol Hill remains under siege from all sides of America's faltering economy, pressure to stem the tide of foreclosures continued to make inroads as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became the latest to join the foreclosure freeze movement.
Barack Obama (D) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Beleaguered homeowners received a powerful boost when President-elect Barack Obama said confronting the housing crisis will be one of his first orders of business upon taking office in January.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline)-Citigroup should eliminate bonuses for its top executives, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said after the financial services company announced it was cutting an additional 53,000 jobs.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) -- Citigroup became the latest financial giant to take measures designed to assist troubled homeowners in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure, according to published reports.
Cuomo ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - American International Group won't be the only bailout beneficiary being watched by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo (D) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Long before Congress began considering a rescue plan for the U.S. financial markets, a small group of state attorneys general were decrying what they called unscrupulous activities by some Wall Street firms.
BOSTON (Legal Newsline)-Bank of America Corp. on Wednesday agreed to buy back $4.5 billion of auction-rate securities, under a settlement with Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin.
Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Facing a possible lawsuit from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed Thursday to buy back the auction rate securities it had sold before the ARS market collapsed in February.
Cuomo NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Wachovia has joined the group of auction rate securities sellers that has returned billions of dollars to investors as a result of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigation.