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Recent News About West Virginia Attorney General

• McGraw going after another debt-collection agency

  By Kelly Holleran | Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 @ 4:20am

  McGraw CHARLESTON -- West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has filed suit against a debt-collecting agency, alleging it engaged in illegal practices when it tried to collect debt from West Virginia consumers.

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• McGraw among AGs wanting new alcoholic energy drink dropped

  By Drew Smith | Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 @ 6:18am

  McGraw CHARLESTON - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has joined attorneys general of 25 other states in asking MillerCoors, LLC to drop its plan to introduce a new alcoholic energy drink with elevated alcoholic content.

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• McGraw originally sought $306 million in Visa, MC case

  By Steve Korris | Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 @ 6:15am

  McGraw WHEELING – West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw praises private lawyers who helped him settle a suit against Visa and MasterCard for $12.2 million, but neglects to mention that he originally sought $306 million.

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• Countrywide wants McGraw's case moved to federal court

  By Kelly Holleran | Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 @ 3:45am

  McGraw CHARLESTON -- Countrywide has requested more time in a case West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw brought against it last month over mortgage loans made to homebuyers.

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• Dictator Darrell

  By The West Virginia Record | Friday, Sep 12, 2008 @ 10:00am

  A Russian citizen wouldn't dare criticize its heavy-handed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

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• Debt settlers still on McGraw's radar

  By John O'Brien | Wednesday, Sep 3, 2008 @ 10:54am

  McGraw CHARLESTON - West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced Wednesday that more consumers will have their debts wiped out because of his office.

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• Finger waggin' Fran

  By The West Virginia Record | Friday, Aug 29, 2008 @ 6:31am

  West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw was all set to dole out another $3.9 million to his trial lawyer friends last week when something important happened at the courthouse.

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• PERSONNEL FILE: Spilman Thomas & Battle hires several new attorneys

  By The West Virginia Record | Monday, Aug 18, 2008 @ 5:00am

  Macia CHARLESTON -– The law firm of Spilman Thomas & Battle is pleased to announce that Leah P. Macia, Joanne M. Vella Kirby, Jeff D. Stewart and Travis H. Eckley have joined the firm's Charleston office.

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• McGraw's home equity squeeze

  By The West Virginia Record | Friday, Aug 15, 2008 @ 4:42am

  A politician shouldn't be relieved of his responsibility to explain his actions just because he's riding on someone else's bandwagon.

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• Man who saved baby deer now going after DNR

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Aug 15, 2008 @ 2:50am

  ELKINS – Joel Rosenthal, who made the Division of Natural Resources look foolish for prosecuting his rescue of a baby deer as a crime, now seeks to make the division pay.

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• Senior group honors Greear

  By John O'Brien | Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 @ 6:00am

  Greear CHARLESTON -– A national seniors group has honored Republican challenger Dan Greear as he hopes to unseat West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw.

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• Oxycontin case divides McGraw's fans, foes

  By Staff reports | Friday, Aug 8, 2008 @ 3:30am

  McGraw CHARLESTON -- Oxycontin could be the Kryptonite to the power built by West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw during this decade and a half in office.

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• McGraw has taken outside counsel idea to new heights

  By Staff reports | Friday, Aug 1, 2008 @ 3:00am

  McGraw CHARLESTON -- New York's Eliot Spitzer made may have made the practice fashionable, but West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw has a lengthy and enduring pattern of hiring outside counsel and appointing special assistants to help bring sizable financial settlements to the state coffers.

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• An unsolved campaign finance mystery

  By The West Virginia Record | Friday, Jul 11, 2008 @ 7:00am

  Del. Carrie Webster says she wants to pull back the curtain on "shadow" campaign organizations here in West Virginia.

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• McGraw mad at bank's move

  By John O'Brien | Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 @ 9:47am

  McGraw CHARLESTON – State Attorney General Darrell McGraw is upset that Capitol One Bank changed its registration to put a stop to his investigation.

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• Weiss shortchanged shareholders, report says

  By Chris Rizo | Thursday, May 29, 2008 @ 3:45am

  Weiss WASHINGTON - Disgraced securities lawyer Melvyn Weiss, who awaits sentencing for illegally paying clients to file shareholder complaints, actually injured shareholders, a report released Wednesday indicates.

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• Justices give Spencer man new trial in manslaughter case

  By Steve Korris | Friday, Mar 7, 2008 @ 2:30am

  CHARLESTON – Dreu Ferguson Jr. of Spencer, serving 15 years for killing neighbor William Freas with a shot to the chest, has won a new trial.

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• PERSONNEL FILE: Michael K. Hensley joins Steptoe & Johnson

  By The West Virginia Record | Tuesday, Feb 12, 2008 @ 7:30am

  Hensley MORGANTOWN -– Michael K. Hensley has joined the Business Department of Steptoe & Johnson and will practice in the firm's Morgantown office.

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• McGraw honors AARP volunteer as Consumer Protection Hero

  By The West Virginia Record | Thursday, Feb 7, 2008 @ 2:55am

  Attorney General Darrell McGraw honored Elder Watch volunteer Sylvia Watkins at the AARP Reverse Boiler Room in Charleston on Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of AARP) CHARLESTON – Attorney General Darrell McGraw honored Elder Watch volunteer Sylvia Watkins at the AARP Reverse Boiler Room in Charleston on Wednesday.

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• AARP sponsors state consumer protection week

  By The West Virginia Record | Thursday, Jan 31, 2008 @ 1:10am

  CHARLESTON -- AARP will lead the effort to protect West Virginia consumers from scams during West Virginia Consumer Protection Week Feb. 3-8.

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