by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 19, 2010
Tags: American Mitigation Consultants, Discount Mortgage Relief, home foreclosure crisis, Lori Swanson
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson today filed suit against two mortgage modification companies for violating a 2009 law that prohibits companies that offer to modify the terms of an existing mortgage from asking for advance payments from homeowners.
by Charley Shaw
Published: February 9, 2010
Tags: 2009 legislative session, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Lori Swanson, Unallotment litigation
Gov. Tim Pawlenty formally lodged his defense today with the Minnesota Supreme Court in the ongoing unallotment litigation. The Republican governor is asking the state's high court to put weight on his administration's actions of June 4, 2009.
by Barbara L. Jones
Published: January 11, 2010
Tags: Kathleen Gearin, Lori Swanson, Tim Pawlenty, unallotment
They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows, and never was that more true than in the unallotment case, which has put the office of DFL Attorney General Lori Swanson in charge of representing Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty in a case that has its genesis in a political showdown with DFL lawmakers.
by Charley Shaw
Published: January 6, 2010
Tags: Debra Hilstrom, Homeowner-Lender Mediation Act, Linda Scheid, Lori Swanson, Tim Pawlenty
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and two DFL legislators are resuming their effort to pass a foreclosure mediation bill. Gov. Tim Pawlenty last session vetoed the homeowner-lender mediation bill.
by Steve Perry
Published: December 31, 2009
Tags: Lori Swanson, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minnesota budget deficit, Pawlenty 2012, Tim Pawlenty, Unallotment litigation, Unallotments
So now what? The implications of Judge Kathleen Gearin's order suspending a portion of the budget cuts singlehandedly imposed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty last summer will likely take months to play themselves out. But here's a quick spin through some of what Donald Rumsfeld would call the "known unknowns" to watch in the days and weeks ahead.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: December 21, 2009
Tags: Betsy Wergin, Cynthia Bauerly, Dale Harris, Gary Bjorklund, John Harrington, Jon Stone, Lori Swanson, Michael Lien, Mike Landy, Prairie Island Indian Community, William Pederson
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has been named one of America's top 10 lawyers for 2009 by Lawyers USA, a Dolan Media company.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: December 1, 2009
Tags: John Graham, Lori Swanson
A St. Paul attorney hopes to run against Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson in the 2010 general election.
by Staff
Published: September 10, 2009
Tags: Better Business Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, Lori Swanson
A data security and privacy summit sponsored by the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be held from noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday at the Metropolitan Ballroom in Golden Valley.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: July 14, 2009
Tags: Lori Swanson, National Arbitration Forum of Minnesota
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed suit today against the National Arbitration Forum of Minnesota, the nation’s largest arbitration company for consumer credit disputes, accusing it of consumer fraud, false advertising and deceptive trade practices by "misrepresenting its independence" and hiding its "extensive ties" to the collection industry. "This is a classic case of the little [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: March 17, 2009
Tags: HF0008, Lori Swanson, Mike Hatch, Minnesota Attorney General, Minnesota False Claims Act bill, Steve Simon
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson should be happy that Mike Kaszuba’s Sunday Star Tribune story about her office came on the eve of the first week of serious budget movement at the Capitol. Yet even amid the suddenly furious pace of legislative goings-on–"Hell Week!" in the pronouncement of one House DFLer who scurried past me [...]
