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.
Read More“This is the largest case of gas sales tax fraud that we have uncovered yet,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in a statement. “This is an extremely significant result that will bolster our efforts to root out tax cheats who’ve scammed the state out of millions.”
Read MoreA national foreclosure settlement has provided 20,044 Illinois consumers with more than $1.4 billion in relief through principal reductions, refinancing for underwater loans and other assistance, according to an independent compliance monitor’s report released Thursday.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan visited the UI on Tuesday to announce a $403,271 grant to the College of Law's Community Preservation Clinic.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe $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.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and other attorneys general took action against a Kentucky-based company operating an alleged global pyramid scheme.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreA 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.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently filed suit against a Michigan company that purported to work on behalf of the Illinois Secretary of State’s office in an alleged attempt to con Illinois businesses into paying hundreds of dollars in unnecessary fees.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says her office is designating up to $70 million to help people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis.
Read MoreAttorney 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.
Read MoreThe Illinois Attorney General's office filed lawsuits Tuesday against two companies that it alleges preyed on struggling homeowners with a new type of mortgage rescue fraud in the Chicago area.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) announced Dec. 12 a $42.9 million settlement with Pfizer Inc. over allegations the pharmaceutical company engaged in fraudulent marketing and sales of its drugs Zyvox and Lyrica.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed suit against a company for allegedly conning businesses into paying unnecessary fees with an official-looking letter.
Read MoreIllinois 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.
Read MoreThe state’s fight to strip disgraced former Chicago police Commander Jon Burge of his pension was revived Friday by an appeals court that reversed a Cook County judge's ruling and said the state's top prosecutor could challenge the pension board's decision.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan has sent a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), demanding the agency abandon a proposal that would unfairly penalize Illinois borrowers by tacking higher fees on new mortgages sold in the state.
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