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Google to pay $7M for personal info gathered by Street View vehicles

On Tuesday, the attorneys general announced a $7 million settlement with Google over its collection of personal data while gathering Street View photos.

Under the agreement, according to a statement from Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office, Google has agreed to destroy the personal data it collected, which included emails, passwords and browsing histories shared over unsecured wireless Internet connections.

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U.S. sues S&P over pre-crisis mortgage ratings

“Put simply, this alleged conduct is egregious — and it goes to the very heart of the recent financial crisis,” Attorney General Eric Holder told a news conference Tuesday. He called the case “an important step forward in our ongoing efforts to investigate and punish the conduct that is believed to have contributed to the worst economic crisis in recent history.”

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Illinois attorney general collected $1.1B in 2012

The office of Illinois' attorney general says it generated more than $1.1 billion in state revenue through litigation and collection efforts in 2012.

Of that amount, more than half came from collections litigation, including funds from child support, damage to state property, unpaid educational loans, fines and penalties. The rest was split between tobacco litigation and estate tax revenues.

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Illinois part of $120M robo-signing settlement

The $120 million settlement follows an investigation by state attorneys general that found that Jacksonville, Fla.-based firm and two of its subsidiaries, LPS Default Solutions and DocX, improperly handled foreclosure documents. Like other "robo-signing" investigations, the states concluded that LPS allowed documents to be signed by authorized people, in the name of others, and notarized those foreclosure documents as if they had been signed by the authorized person.

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Madigan: More than $1 million in wages, benefits returned to Illinois workers in 2012

“The law requires that Illinoisans be compensated for the work they perform, but as these cases demonstrate, employers far too often attempt to cheat workers out of wages and benefits they have earned,” Madigan said. “I will continue to prosecute employers who violate the law by failing to pay the full wages their employees are due.”

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Friday is deadline to apply for part of $25B mortgage settlement

A Friday deadline is looming for Illinois homeowners to file for claims as part of the $25 billion national mortgage foreclosure settlement that was announced last February.

About 64,000 borrowers in Illinois who lost their home to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011 and had their mortgage served by one of the five banks participating in the settlement may be eligible to receive financial assistance if they file a claim. The five mortgage servicers involved in the settlement were Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. 

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Amgen to Pay Nearly $2 Million for Defrauding Illinois Medicaid Program

Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined her state counterparts across the country and the federal government today to announce a $612 million settlement with the pharmaceutical company Amgen Inc. The settlement resolves allegations that Amgen illegally promoted six of its drugs to defraud state and federally funded health care programs, including $1.7 million in false claims submitted to the Illinois Medicaid program.

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Attorney General Madigan, ICC Warn Utility Customers of Scam Artists Posing as Utility Company Reps, Demanding Paymen

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Illinois Commerce Commission alerted utility customers to a recent scam targeting residents in the Chicago area in which someone claiming to be a utility employee asks for immediate payment of a bill either at a customer’s door, over the telephone or by e-mail.

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