Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has obtained a temporary restraining order against an O'Fallon hotel, ordering it to keep its swimming pool closed until health officials get to the bottom of "numerous, ongoing violations" involving health and sanitation violations.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced on Tuesday that she has proposed a consent decree to require Dean Foods to sell a milk processing plant in Waukesha, Wis.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined nine other states in reaching a settlement against a Georgia advertising corporation over its false car sales promotions around the country, in violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced on Wednesday that she has filed a lawsuit against a travel agent who allegedly violated the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices and Travel Promotion Consumer Protection Acts.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan announced today a Peoria-area man was sentenced to one and a half years in jail with six months probation and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution to consumers for scamming them out of thousands of dollars in home repair work he never completed.
Read MoreTwo employees at Decatur Manor Healthcare were arrested Tuesday as part of an unannounced compliance check for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's "Operation Guardian" initiative.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that Honeywell International, Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $690,000 to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the company illegally stored thousands of drums containing radioactive and hazardous waste at its facility on Route 45 North near Metropolis.
Read MoreIllinoisans who plan to donate to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts underway in Japan should be careful not to fall prey to fund-raising scams by con artists seeking to exploit the natural disaster for their personal profit, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Friday.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan and the Illinois Department of Revenue (DOR) announced today the indictments of Naveed Ahmed, CPA, and his brother, Asif Waheed for preparing fraudulent Illinois Sales and Use tax returns on behalf of six gas station owners who attempted to evade paying $5 million in state sales tax. Authorities arrested Ahmed, who owns Midwest Financial Services, and Waheed, who works for his brother’s accounting firm, Wednesday evening and they are being held on $400,000 cash bond.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a $68.5 million settlement with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP over alleged deceptive and unfair marketing practices of its antipsychotic drug, Seroquel.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against four ice companies that allegedly agreed not to compete against each other. The suit claims that the four packaged ice manufacturers — Lang Ice Co., Home City Ice, Sisler’s Dairy and Products Inc. and Tinley Ice Company — made deals to divvy up markets, trade customers and share price information in central and northern Illinois.
A New Lenox contractor pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of minority business fraud, Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that the arrest of a Metro East man on child pornography charges is the 19th suspect taken into custody in her continuing crackdown on the most active traffickers who download and trade child pornography on the Internet.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan announced today the arrest of a Kane County man on child pornography charges as part of a continuing statewide crackdown.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan has announced new legislation to beef up the state’s Prevailing Wage Act to include, among other things, making violations of the Act a felony. Also, those criminally convicted would be prohibited from working on public projects for a period of four years.
Read MoreIllinois' largest health insurance company will pay $25 million to settle allegations that it denied coverage to sick children in need of nursing care by "fraudulently" shifting their claims to the state's Medicaid program.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County Circuit Court against a home repair contractor who scammed consumers out of thousands of dollars under a guise of repairing their driveways for little to no fee.
Read MoreFollowing an investigation by Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a longtime foreman and subcontractor for a Melrose Park construction company was charged with theft and forgery for allegedly cheating employees out of their proper wages and pocketing more than $270,000 in excess payroll funds.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office says it raised nearly $1 billion in state revenue last year through a variety of litigation and the collection of estate-tax revenues.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that Illinois will receive more than $61 million to initiate or continue environmental cleanup activities at several sites throughout the state contaminated by the former Kerr-McGee Chemical Co.