Recent News About Illinois Attorney Generalal
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and 11 attorneys general, announced today that student lender Prehired will provide more than $30 million in relief to student borrowers for making false promises of job placement, trapping students with income share loans that violated the law, and resorting to abusive debt collection practices when borrowers could not pay.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a suburban Cook County man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for delivering more than 900 grams of methamphetamine.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit’s decision in the consolidated cases challenging the Protect Illinois Communities Act.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general, defended the District of Columbia’s (D.C.) efforts to restrict the capacity of firearms magazines within its borders in an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that Illinois, along with 49 other attorneys general, has reached a bipartisan settlement with a subsidiary of payment processor ACI Worldwide Corporation (ACI) concerning a testing error that led to the attempted unauthorized withdrawal of $2.3 billion from the accounts of 477,000 mortgage holders.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, called on the federal government to implement stronger regulations to ensure behavioral health services are as available to patients as other types of health care.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul , with 23 other attorneys general, filed a brief supporting access to medication abortion and other essential health care for all Americans.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a coalition of 13 attorneys general supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to strengthen dust-lead hazard standards and post-abatement clearance levels, as authorized by the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that Illinois, along with 49 other attorneys general, has reached a settlement with software company Blackbaud concerning its data security practices and response to a 2020 data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers across the United States.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 22 attorneys general, urged congressional leaders to approve the SAFER Banking Act of 2023 to lift banking restrictions that prevent state-licensed cannabis businesses from accessing the full range of regulated banking and financial services.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that his office filed charges against a village trustee who formerly served as a village treasurer in Macoupin County for allegedly misusing village funds by collecting pay she was not entitled to and spending funds on personal expenses.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul charged three men who own and operate a more than a dozen Central and Southern Illinois gas stations for allegedly underreporting more than $50 million in sales from 2019 to 2022, which produced more than $4 million in tax liability.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul charged two Lake County men with allegedly trying to sell illegal firearms, some of which were stolen, in Lake and Cook counties this summer.
