Hurricane season is three days away, and the winds and rains of those storms can result in costly damages. According to the Attorney General’s Office, there is something else to keep in mind should damage to your home occur. Home repair scams rank in the top five of consumer complaints the office receives. The Alabama Attorney’s office and the Greater…
The advent of social media and online communities have created both incredible learning opportunities and real and viable threats for students. From cyber-bullying and inappropriate connections to using modern Apps and securing personal data, investigators at the Alabama Attorney General’s Office have created training that enables teachers and parents to fight back! Working In partnership with the Alabama Department of Education, investigators…
Joseph Siegelman, son of former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman, has qualified to run for Attorney General in the June Democratic Primary. That would position him—if he wins the primary— to run as a Democrat against the former Federal Prosecutor who helped put his father in jail, Alice Martin—if she wins. She has qualified to run as a Republican for…
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange is now a senator after Governor Robert Bentley appointed him to fill the seat left vacant by Jeff Session. Sessions was confirmed by the senate Wednesday night to be U.S. Attorney General. Governor Robert Bentley spent the last several months whittling the short list of candidates from over 100, then down to 20. Luther Strange…
Attorneys general from six states have sent a letter urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general. In the letter dated Jan. 17, the prosecutors said they had “grave concern” that Sessions would “diligently and fairly enforce all laws protective of civil rights, public safety, health and welfare.” The letter said Sessions…
Ohio’s Democratic senator says he will oppose Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. attorney general. Sherrod Brown of Cleveland says in a statement Friday that he met with Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, on Wednesday. He says they discussed Sessions’ positions on civil rights issues and his plans for the Justice Department. The second-term senator says he has “serious concerns” about Sessions’…
The NAACP is staging a sit-in at the Alabama office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest his nomination to be the nation’s next attorney general. NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said in a statement that Sessions “can’t be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights.” Brooks said on social media that several people have begun…
A failed voting-fraud prosecution from more than 30 years ago is likely to re-emerge as a contentious issue during Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general. He was dogged by his handling of the case as U.S. attorney during his 1986 confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship. The Alabama senator devoted more space to that case than any other…
U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr., Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, United States Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301 individuals, including 61 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals,…
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange is urging state schools to ignore the Obama administration’s directive on transgender students and school bathrooms. A statement issued Friday by the attorney general’s office says Strange sent a letter to the Alabama Board of Education calling the federal guidance improper. The administration has said schools could lose federal funding if they prevent transgender students…
