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The state is 20 gazillion dollars in the hole, millions of its citizens are out of work, they are threatening to let the crooks out of prison because they can't afford to keep them locked up, and California's Top Cop is going after Barbie Dolls this holiday...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Japan, Tōkyō, Target Corporation, Barbie, Mattel, Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, Dora the Explorer, T.J. Maxx, Walgreens, Toy, Sears
Supreme Court to guarantee the ability of gun owners across the land to keep and bear arms. Last year, the high court struck down a ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., ruling for the first time that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms applies to...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Chicago, attorney general, Sen. Carole Migden, District Attorney Kamala Harris, Columbia, National Rifle Association, Gun laws in the United States, Supreme Court of the United States, Carole Migden, Gun politics, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
As California's attorney general, however, the 71-year-old former governor is winning headlines nationwide for protecting taxpayers from unscrupulous banks and green-lighting deep salary cuts for legislators. That dual role has fueled criticism that Brown...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Sacramento, Opposition research, Steve Poizner, California Proposition 8, Politics, Gavin Newsom, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman, Jaws, Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment Culture
Who deserves credit for forcing Wells Fargo & Co. to buy $1.4 billion in troubled securities from small investors?...Jerry Brown and a group of regulators from other states announced separate settlements Wednesday requiring Wells to repurchase so-called...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Wells Fargo & Co., NASAA, California Atty, Los Angeles, Financial regulation, Bonds, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Settlement, Auction rate security, Finance, Securities, United States securities law
Republican candidate Meg Whitman has moved into a tie with state Attorney General Jerry Brown, according to a new Rasmussen poll. Whitman and Brown are deadlocked at 41 percent, although the poll shows Brown leading the other GOP hopefuls, Tom Campbell...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Richmond, Steve Poizner, Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Fox Business Network, Politics, Procter & Gamble
Jerry Brown announced today that he is investigating whether four individuals defrauded more than 30 African American churches in Southern California by forcing them to pay thousands of dollars for substandard computer kiosks, which the churches were...
Tags: Southern California, California Citizens Compensation Commission, Jerry Brown, attorney general, general jerry, Los Angeles, Business Finance, Bank of America, Law Crime, Black church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Interactive kiosk, Leasing, Fraud, Pacifica Radio, Politics
Just in time for the holiday season, lawmakers will have their salaries cut by $20,917 annually while California's 12 top state officials will see reductions of at least $28,644 apiece. "There are legal scholars that might quibble, but I think the vast...
Tags: California, Sacramento, John Chiang, Jerry Brown
Among the state’s political junkies and cognoscenti, however, those papers, for the past week, have proven the most popular and engaging reading in recent memory. Released by Attorney General Jerry Brown in response to a spate of demands under open public...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Capitol Letters, attorney generally, Sacramento
Jerry Brown was sounding downright conservative when he told a group of corporate attorneys last week that the state's businesses are burdened with too many regulations. And, previously, he insisted state government needed more downsizing, dismissing...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Ben Tulchin, California, ve got, Sacramento, Opposition research, Politics
The North American Securities Administrators Association says a brokerage unit of Wells Fargo & Co ( WFC.N ) agreed to a $1.3 billion settlement involving auction rate securities (ARS). The settlement requires Wells Fargo to offer to rebuy ARS from nationwide...
Tags: Wells Fargo & Co., Wells Fargo Settles Calif, rate securities, Californians, attorney generally, Jerry Brown, generally jerry, securities administrators, called auction, administrators association, France, Ars, Securities, Wells Fargo, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities fraud, Nuveen Investments, Bonds, Auction rate security, Finance, Business Finance, Federal Reserve System, Institutional investor, Funds, Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, Primary dealers, Investment banks, Corporate crime, Verizon Communications, Twitter, 3G, GMAC, Technology Internet, American International Group, Verizon Wireless