News stories tagged with "attorney-general"

(01/25/12) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will lead a new mortgage crisis investigation unit, announced by President Obama in his state of the union last night.

The special unit will investigate wrongdoing by banks related to real estate lending, and how that contributed to the financial collapse and the mortgage crisis. more

(09/28/11) The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today issued an alert about a phone scam targeting residents of Watertown. A spokesman says three victims so far have contacted the office and have each lost between $300 and $700 to the scam. Joanna Richards reports. more

(08/25/11) Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today the indictment and arrest of former Cape Vincent Town Clerk Jeri Mason, on charges that she stole up to $50,000 from the town. more

(08/17/11) New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was in Watertown yesterday to announce a $3.5 million settlement in a scam targeting soldiers with the sale of electronics. Soldiers who still owe money to the company will be relieved of their debts and have their credit histories repaired.

But those who already paid lost thousands of dollars to the scam. About 1,000 soldiers were affected. Joanna Richards was there and has this report. more

(08/01/11) New York state attorney general Eric Schneiderman says he's confident the state will win a lawsuit challenging the newly-signed same-sex marriage law. And he's taking steps to see same-sex marriage legalized throughout the country. more

(04/21/10) This week, North Country Public Radio is looking in-depth at the big conservation land deals that are reshaping the Adirondack Park.

The New York Post has raised allegations that one of those deals, in Clinton County, was mishandled. According to an article published earlier this month, the Department of Environmental Conservation overpaid for land near Lyon Mountain by millions of dollars. The paper's sources described the 2008 sale as a "sweetheart" deal designed to benefit the Adirondack Nature Conservancy.

But as Brian Mann reports, it appears that the land sale included a series of checks and balances designed to insure a fair deal.

We'll conclude our series on major Adirondack land conservation deals tomorrow with a look at the Adirondack Local Government Review Board and its role.

Note: The audio of journalist Fred Dicker talking about the Domtar deal comes from his radio program on the Albany station Talk 1300.

(07/17/08) New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is launching an investigation into a wind power developer in Clinton and Franklin counties. The probe will examine alleged conflicts of interest between Noble Environmental Power and local officials. David Sommerstein reports.

(08/21/07) The Chair of the Senate Investigations Committee says he'll call Governor Spitzer's Inspector General to testify at a hearing in early September. Karen DeWitt reports.

(08/28/06) A new poll finds that the race for Attorney General in New York may be closer than previously believed. Karen DeWitt reports.

(06/01/06) Andrew Cuomo, the son of former Governor Mario Cuomo, was anointed by delegates to the Democratic state convention as their designee for state attorney general. Andrea Bernstein has more from Buffalo.