Recent News About Illinois Attorney General
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul charged a suburban Cook County woman who allegedly stole nearly $250,000 in unclaimed property from four victims by filing fraudulent claims with Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs’ Unclaimed Property Division.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that his office charged a suburban Will County woman for allegedly purchasing three vehicles via Facebook Marketplace using fake identification and fraudulent checks.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced legislation that would protect workers from retaliatory conduct by employers, strengthen current protections under state law and codify the authority of Raoul’s Workplace Rights Bureau to investigate and hold employers who retaliate or threaten to retaliate accountable.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a bipartisan coalition of 43 attorneys general calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to update and strengthen the rules technology companies must follow under the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul released preliminary statistics detailing compliance by Illinois law enforcement agencies with the first year of reporting requirements contained in the Way Forward Act.
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Madison County Associate Judge Ronald J. Foster Jr. declared Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s forum law favoring Cook and Sangamon County is unconstitutional and denied Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s motion to transfer an Alton gun store’s constitutional challenge to both the venue law and the firearm liability law.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that a Romeoville man prosecuted by the Attorney General’s office pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for his role in a criminal operation that burglarized businesses and stole cash from video poker machines throughout Illinois.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 12 state attorneys general, urged the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act in the interest of public health and safety.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with 19 attorneys general, called on the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to investigate recent reports that a federally funded contractor has produced military-grade ammunition for sale to civilians, including to perpetrators of horrific recent mass shootings.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul today highlighted three new laws initiated by his office that will go into effect Jan. 1.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with 22 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a federal rule banning bump stocks, devices that effectively convert semiautomatic firearms into illegal and dangerous automatic weapons.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office obtained a guilty plea from a former assistant Coles County state’s attorney for misconduct involving interactions he had in his official capacity with Coles County women who were prosecuted by the state’s attorney’s office.
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A Rockford federal judge granted a preliminary injunction sought by pro-life groups and so-called crisis pregnancy centers, who said Illinois, under Gov. JB Pritkzer and Attorney General Kwame Raoul, was attempting to use the new law to silence abortion opponents unconstitutionally
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IL A/G says plaintiff hasn't proven A/G is acting under political pressure to seek to dismiss a lawsuit against politically connected ex-state worker accused of defrauding state for $500K, allegedly under protection of Gov. JB Pritzker's office
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The lawsuit from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul accuses Olympus Salt of allegedly running a salt distribution operation without permits for alleged particulate matter emissions
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul , along with six other attorneys general, announced a $462 million settlement with Juul Labs Inc. (Juul), one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, today filed a brief in opposition to the ongoing, misguided effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general, opposed a legislative effort to overturn a federal rule that helps protect employee retirement savings.
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The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police union filed a brief backing the constitutional challenges to the provisions in Illinois' SAFE-T Act abolishing cash bail. They warn Illinois should expect much more crime if the state is allowed to abolish cash bail, an action the police argue is unconstitutional
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Sheriffs and prosecutors from 64 counties argue in a new brief that cash bail is enshrined in the state constitution, and can't be deleted without a vote of the people, simply because Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly say so
