Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow July 25 filed a complaint against ExxonMobil Oil Corp., alleging air pollution violations after an equipment malfunction at the company’s refinery in Channahon Township caused an uncontrolled release of hydrogen sulfide that lasted more than nine and a half hours in March.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) and her counterparts across the country called on Congress July 24 to approve a change to the Communications Decency Act to better fight child sex trafficking.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan awarded $70 million towards local foreclosure relief efforts, with the new Cook County Land Bank taking the biggest piece of the pie.
Read MoreLisa Madigan today announced her campaign for reelection as Illinois Attorney General. In seeking her fourth term, Madigan will build on an extraordinary record of accomplishment in protecting consumers, generating critical revenue for the state, safeguarding communities, and fighting for open and accountable government.
Read MoreIn an effort to increase industry transparency, Lisa Madigan, the attorney general of Illinois, has opened an inquiry into the data-mining practices of some popular health sites.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) and the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) announced July 11 that a Chicago-area gas station owner pled guilty and was sentenced to prison for defrauding the state of nearly $1 million in gasoline sales taxes. It is one of the largest cases of gas sales tax fraud in the state’s ongoing criminal enforcement operation.
Read MoreMadigan said wireless cramming is poised to become a major source of consumer fraud, much like it did on landline phones before the practice was banned in Illinois. A recent study points to the extent of the problem, showing that 60 percent of third-party charges placed on mobile phone bills of Vermont residents were “crammed” during a two-month period in 2012, according to a survey conducted by the University of Vermont and the Vermont Attorney General’s Office.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has been dogged by the marriage question all year. It's not that she doesn't support equal marriage—that much has long been clear—but her stance on the issue has been closely watched, first when she intervened in favor of lawsuits seeking equal marriage and then when her father, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, took up the issue in the House, where he supported efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.
Read MoreA University of Illinois legal clinic that helps homeowners facing foreclosure will develop similar programs in other counties with a second major grant from a government settlement fund.
Read MoreA Roxana man pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for possessing pornography depicting children as young as 5 and for performing a sex act with a 9-year-old household member.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) and Winnebago County State’s Attorney Joseph Bruscato (D) announced June 13 a court order will keep a Winnebago County chemical manufacturing company damaged by an explosive fire closed until the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) determines it is safe to re-start operations at the Seward, Ill., plant.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has joined the call for technology, including a "kill switch" to disable smartphones and deter rampant theft of the devices.
A coalition of state and city officials are addressing a perceived unwillingness by cellphone carriers and handset makers to technology to combat the problem.
Read MoreNearly 30,000 Illinois borrowers will soon receive checks as part of a landmark multistate settlement with five U.S. banks over foreclosure abuses.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Monday that borrowers can expect a total of $43.3 million in relief payments. The average check will be about $1,500.
Read More“Over the past 10 years we have had hundreds of thousands of people come to the office of the attorney general,” said Madigan.
She said that most of the issues that come to her office have been financial, and that the mortgage crisis that escalated into the foreclosure crisis is at the heart of America’s economic problems.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) alerted Illinois residents to be wary of unsolicited calls advertising purported free medical alert services following an uptick in complaints reported to her office. Madigan said call recipients should ignore the solicitation and not provide any personal information to the caller.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan joined 32 other attorneys general in proposed antitrust settlements with Penguin Group and Macmillan, the remaining two publishers accused of conspiring to raise prices for e-books beginning in 2010.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today applauded the General Assembly’s unanimous vote in support of legislation that will help strengthen prosecutors’ efforts to protect children from pornographers, following House Bill 2647’s passage today on concurrence in the House.
Read MoreThe Illinois Attorney General's office has updated a guide to federal and state benefits for service members and veterans.
Read MoreSince March 1, 2012, the settlement has enabled 3,513 Illinois homeowners to receive permanent mortgage modifications with principal writedowns that reduced their indebtedness by an average of $118,235. Another 8,439 consumers had second liens on their homes extinguished. Almost 6,000 consumers completed short sales, selling their homes, with their lender's permission, for less than the amount owed. Additional homeowners received other forms of assistance.
Read MoreA Springfield man has been charged with multiple counts of child pornography as part of a special operation of the Illinois attorney general's office.
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