Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the settlement Thursday with Connecticut-based marketing firm Affinion Group.
She says customers believed they'd signed up for a free trial but later discovered unwanted credit card charges.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against a local contractor alleging it violated labor laws by underpaying workers approximately $100,000 in a public works project.
Read MoreThe Illinois Attorney General's Office filed the charges against 62-year-old Linda Harvill in September. Harvill worked for the Village of Crainville for more than two decades.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) and her counterparts on the National Mortgage Settlement’s Monitoring Committee announced Oct. 1 that the nation’s five largest bank mortgage servicers will implement new procedures to improve the process for struggling homeowners seeking loan modifications.
Read MoreAs more than one million individuals, families and small businesses in Illinois start to sign up for health insurance and financial assistance through the Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace, Attorney General Lisa Madigan today urged Illinois residents to educate themselves and use caution to avoid scam artists who may try to take advantage of this new program.
Read More"This case gets at the heart of the horrific nature of child pornography," Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in the statement. "They are not victimless crimes but brutal acts of violence that forever scar the lives of young targets."
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and to regulate ingredients and advertising of the popular and highly addictive products.
Read MoreBut abuses keep coming to light. Despite happy talk about a housing rebound, nearly three million homeowners are in or near foreclosure, and many continue to be victimized by improper and possibly illegal practices.
A lawsuit filed this week by the attorney general of Illinois, Lisa Madigan, and a report by The Times’s Jessica Silver-Greenberg have detailed one such abuse.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) applauded a ruling by a panel of arbitrators denying an attempt by the country’s largest tobacco manufacturers to avoid paying millions of dollars to Illinois under the state’s landmark 1998 tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
Read MoreThe lawsuit against Safeguard Properties, filed Monday by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in Cook County Circuit Court, also charges that representatives of Safeguard, which includes subcontracted firms, wrongly told homeowners and renters that they could not live in their homes during the foreclosure process.
Investigators for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, with the assistance of the Watseka Police Department and the Iroquois County Sheriff’s Department, conducted a search of Shaw’s residence in the 300 block of Cherry Street in Watseka and made the arrest Thursday after evidence of alleged child pornography was discovered.
Read MoreOn Monday, Illinois became the first state to take on the property management firms legally, contending in a lawsuit that Safeguard wrongfully dispossessed hundreds of homeowners in the state. In suing Safeguard, Lisa Madigan, the attorney general, contends that the company broke into homes despite stark evidence that homeowners still lived in them, bullied tenants into leaving even though they had no legal obligation to do so and, in some instances, damaged the very homes they were sent to protect, according to the suit.
Read More"The facility was operating in violation of state laws that ensure the public's health and safety," Madigan said in the news release. "In addition to paying a considerable penalty, the company has agreed to remove the dangerous materials from the site as part of a comprehensive plan to clean up the area."
Read MoreMadigan sent letters yesterday to officials at AT&T Inc., CenturyLink, Frontier Communications and Consolidated Communications, which provide the vast majority of landline telephone service for Illinois residents, urging the companies to develop technology to block the onslaught of computer-generated robocalls that seek to scam consumers who pick up the phone.
Read MoreAdvocate Health Care officials and Park Ridge police are investigating a burglary at an administrative building in the Northwest suburb that may have led to the release of information on 4 million patients.
Read More"The perpetrators of this criminal enterprise are charged with using taxpayer funds to further their own shakedown scheme at time when our country was on the brink of disaster," said Attorney General Lisa Madigan in a statement. "Their brazen actions to cover up this fraudulent scheme led to the failure of Premier Bank at the expense of its trusting customers and American taxpayers."
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan and the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) today announced a Peoria area man has been charged for allegedly defrauding the state of more than $420,000 in gasoline sales taxes. The case is one of dozens in an ongoing criminal enforcement operation that to date has recovered nearly $82 million owed to the state from gas station operators who evade sales tax payments.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a joint $491 million federal and state settlement to resolve civil and criminal allegations that pharmaceutical manufacturer Wyeth illegally marketed an organ transplant anti-rejection drug for unauthorized uses that resulted in millions of dollars in false claims to state and federal Medicaid programs.
Read MoreAttorney 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.
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