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GOP looking to go after Attorney General.

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Issa: Subpoenas Coming for ‘Fast and Furious’

New York’s attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is less anonymous since objecting to a potential $20 billion deal to end a lawsuit against banks.

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RICHMOND — Thomas Haynesworth sorted mail and made copies early Tuesday at his clerical job in Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s office. Then Cuccinelli went to work for him. In a vaulted courtroom, Cuccinelli passionately tried to convince a Virginia appeals court that Haynesworth is an innocent man. That the state made a mistake when Haynesworth was convicted of rape three decades ago. That his name should be cleared. Read full article > >

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The attorney general must consent to charges being brought under the Official Secrets Act in the phone-hacking leak probe, his office says.

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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller , who is leading foreclosure settlement negotiations with the nation’s largest banks on behalf of all 50 states, abruptly removed New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman from the coalition’s executive committee Tuesday, saying he had “actively worked to undermine” the group’s efforts in recent months. Miller did not speak with Schneiderman before he sent word about the decision. Rather, Iowa assistant Attorney General Patrick Madigan e-mailed counterparts around the country just before 1 p.m. announcing that New York had been booted from the key group of states overseeing the negotiations, “effective immediately.” Read full article > >

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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller , who is leading foreclosure settlement negotiations with the nation’s largest banks on behalf of all 50 states, abruptly removed New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman from the coalition’s executive committee Tuesday, saying he had “actively worked to undermine” the group’s efforts in recent months. Miller did not speak with Schneiderman before he sent word about the decision. Rather, Iowa assistant Attorney General Patrick Madigan e-mailed counterparts around the country just before 1 p.m. announcing that New York had been booted from the key group of states overseeing the negotiations, “effective immediately.” Read full article > >

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Seated in a room of the attorney general’s office in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, a woman waits to be reunited with her 13-year-old daughter. Two weeks before, the girl had run away from home.

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Teen says she worked for drug cartel

RICHMOND — In a highly unusual move, Virginia sued a major New York financial institution late Thursday, alleging that it defrauded state and local pension funds and seeking an extraordinary $900 million in damages and penalties. The lawsuit, filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, claims that since 2000 the Bank of New York Mellon defrauded the Virginia Retirement System and the pension funds in Arlington and Fairfax counties 73,000 times. “Now all of Virginia taxpayers are harmed,” Cuccinelli (R) said in an interview. “If you assume the taxpayers are going to make good on whatever obligations these funds undertake, really the people who are going to be harmed by this as a particular matter are the taxpayers.” Read full article > >

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People in this town like to grumble about cab drivers, and one grumble heard frequently is that many don’t pay their taxes. No less than Leon Swain , former D.C. Taxicab Commission chairman and famed federal informant, has insisted to me on numerous occasions that tax evasion is widespread among cabbies, who of course operate in a largely cash business. Industry leaders, meanwhile, tell me that drivers are by and large a law-abiding group, with the occasional bad apples you find in any bushel. Well, Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan announced today that the city has successfully concluded three rare prosecutions of cabdrivers for tax fraud. Cabbies Joseph Lane Jr. , Robert L. Reeder and Southall E. Seay Jr. seem to have failed by dealing not strictly with everyday street hails, but with a government program with actual accountability: Read full article > >

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Speaking to a crowd of lawyers in Washington last week, Attorney General Eric Holder made an audacious claim about the war on terrorism. Overlooking the all-volunteer military force that has heroically battled terrorists and insurgents for nearly a decade, our outstanding intelligence and counterterrorism experts, and many others, Holder asserted that America’s “most effective terror-fighting weapon” is its civilian court system. These comments insult those who have served on the front lines, but Holder’s clear intent was to justify the Obama administration’s two-year misadventure in treating captured terrorists like common criminals. This is evident most recently in Bowling Green, Ky., where two Iraqi nationals who have admitted to targeting American troops in Iraq were arrested last month. Read full article > >

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“Who the hell is Diane Nash?” That was Attorney General Robert Kennedy, barking a disparaging greeting over the phone to one of his deputies, John Seigenthaler. It was a little over 50 years ago, May 16, 1961, to be exact. Two days earlier, on Mother’s Day, a group of Freedom Riders — young, mostly student activists challenging the South’s segregation laws by traveling on buses over state lines — had been set upon and beaten by a mob of white supremacists near Anniston, Ala. The bus they rode on, a Greyhound, was fire-bombed and destroyed. In Birmingham, the occupants of another Freedom Rider bus, a Trailways, had also been assaulted. Read full article > >

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Ouch, the hits keep coming for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sources said Wednesday that the California Attorney General’s Office is investigating the former governor for allegedly using his state-funded security detail to escort women to his hotel room. The…

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The attorney general says it will consider whether the law relating to injunctions needs to change after the prime minister says it is “unsustainable”.

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“I hope former Attorney General Mukasey will correct his misstatement.” — Sen. John McCain, on the Senate floor, May 12, 2011 Read full article > >

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