• Madigan offers business tips to protect consumer information

    Attorney General Lisa Madigan today released a 2012 guide for Illinois businesses to better protect consumers’ personal information and help prevent identity theft.

    Woodford Times, January 30, 2012
  • State investigation: ComEd should pay for outages

    Prolonged outages that at one point left more than 800,000 people in Northern Illinois without power during last summer's storms were not unpreventable acts of God, but were caused by years of neglect of equipment and lack of tree-trimming by ComEd, according to a report from the Illinois Attorney General's office.

    Chicago Tribune, January 28, 2012
  • Lisa Madigan sues S&P for role in housing market meltdown

    Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against Standard & Poor’s claiming the credit ratings agency fraudulently gave high ratings to risky mortgage-backed investments in the years prior to the 2008 housing market crash.

    Chicago Sun-Times, January 25, 2012