A report from Missouri’s attorney general shows that black drivers across the state are 91 percent more likely than white motorists to be pulled over by police and newly collected data shows that African-Americans are even more likely to be ...

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The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is taking the axe to zombie debt collectors. Attorney General Chris Koster filed two lawsuits on Tuesday against separate debt collection agencies that allegedly are attempting to collect debt from citizens who do not owe ...

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A federal lawsuit demands that Gov. Jay Nixon recuse himself from clemency considerations for three death row inmates, saying he can't be trusted to be objective because he prosecuted the men as attorney general. Dennis J. Skillicorn and two others say Nixon, through his representation of the Missouri Department of Corrections, "intentionally obstructed federal court appointed counsel's access to evidence in support of clemency." Based on those allegations, the Missouri Supreme Court last year granted a stay of execution for Skillicorn, who had been scheduled to die Aug 27. However, the court on Monday issued a new execution date for Skillicorn - May 20.

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 Attorney General Eric Holder replaced the head of the Justice Department’s professional ethics office after a U.S. judge blasted the department for “shocking” conduct in prosecuting former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. H. Marshall Jarrett, who has led the department’s Office ...

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Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has sued a company he said defrauded people seeking mortgage relief. The suit, filed Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, alleges that Orange, Calif.-based U.S. Foreclosure Relief Corp., also known as Lighthouse Services, violated the ...

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The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has hired a former actor turned legislative assistant to teach government officials how to comply with the Sunshine Law. Tom Durkin, the office’s public education director, will travel the state giving presentations and seminars to ...

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Attorney General Chris Koster on Wednesday announced a telemarketing operation in Georgia that made repeated calls to Missourians on the No Call list has agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties to the state and stop making phone solicitations in Missouri. ...

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Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey will join New York law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, the firm said Tuesday in a statement. Mukasey, a former federal judge in New York, will join the firm as a partner in the litigation ...

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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has powers vast and wide. But for him to go after Merrill Lynch & Co. for passing out bonuses is a bit of a stretch. I say, go for it anyway. The grounds he ...

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Eric H. Holder, a career federal prosecutor, judge and Washington lawyer, was sworn in Tuesday as the U.S.’s first black attorney general with a pledge to revitalize the Justice Department. Holder, addressing cheering department employees prior to his swearing-in, said ...

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Barack Obama has promised many times that he will have the most accountable administration in history. But early on, he missed two opportunities to show he means what he says. First, Tim Geithner's nomination to head the Treasury Department should have been withdrawn once his weaknesses were apparent. Second, Obama should have never picked Eric Holder to be attorney general.

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