Press Releases
- AGO Announces Guilty Plea of Hyannis Business Owner for Failing to Pay Over $245,000 in Sales Tax and Failing to File Excise Tax Returns
- AGO Announces That Two Clinton Men are Sentenced to 15 Years in State Prison for Setting Fire to Historical Landmark and Barn
- AGO Reaches $4.25 Million Medicaid Fraud Settlement with Aventis
- Environmental Contractor and Principals Indicted for Larceny and False and Misleading Advertisements
- AGO Announces Indictment of Roxbury Man and His Girlfriend in Connection with Allegedly Trafficking Cocaine
Legal Food Frenzy
Hunger knows no season. So while we’re all focused on making our donations for holiday meals and gifts, the AGO and local Bar Associations are working together to organize another type of drive, this one to pick up where holiday donations leave off.
The “Legal Food Frenzy” is a benevolent competition within the legal community to raise funds and collect food for food pantries during the spring, a traditionally slow time for donations. All of the funds and food collected will go to the Greater Boston Food Bank to benefit hungry families in Massachusetts.
Through their participation in the “Legal Food Frenzy” staff in Boston-area law firms will collect donations of food and funds for the Food Bank an will compete for the soon-to-be-coveted trophy that, like the Stanley Cup will be shared year to year by the winners of this competition.
Our goal for the 2010 “Legal Food Frenzy”, which will run from March 1 – March 12, 2010, is to bring in 500,000 pounds of food (or its equivalent in monetary donations) during the two week campaign.
In order to reach that goal, we are asking Massachusetts law firms to sign up now for this campaign. Firms that sign up by December 30, 2009 receive a 100 pound “bonus” to jump start their efforts.
AG Coakley Advocates for Consumer Financial Protection Agency
In the coming weeks, Congress will vote on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) Act of 2009, which if passed will provide the federal government with the necessary tools to avert future federal financial crisis. The CFPA would establish a federal agency whose sole responsibility is to evaluate financial products in terms of consumer fairness and to create concise rules to empower consumer choice and increase competition. In October, Attorney General Martha Coakley travelled to Washington, DC to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss financial regulatory reform legislation and to express her support for the CFPA. Attorney General Coakley believes that this agency, along with joint enforcement by state officials, will protect consumers, promote sound credit practices, and restore confidence in financial markets. An op-ed recently published in The New Republic and co-authored by Attorney General Coakley and Professor Elizabeth Warren outlines the basis for their support for this legislation.
For more information regarding Attorney General Coakley’s advocacy for the CFPA, see the press release. Visit the AGO’s Consumer Protection site for helpful information and resources on consumer protection.
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