February 9, 2012

LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced Michigan will be the lead state in an effort to defend religious liberty in three separate lawsuits filed by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of two colleges and a religious broadcasting network challenging onerous administrative health care regulations recently handed down by the Obama administration.

February 8,  2012

LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced the Attorney General's Public Integrity Unit has charged a former Jackson County District Court Judge for his role in allegedly abusing his authority as a judge by dismissing multiple traffic tickets issued to his wife and court staff without just cause.  The charges result from an investigation by the Attorney General following a referral by the Jackson County Prosecutor's office.

February 7, 2012

LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced Michigan will join at least 40 other states in a multi-billion dollar nationwide settlement with five of the nation's largest banks/mortgage servicers in response to allegations of faulty foreclosure processes and poor servicing of mortgages that harmed Michigan homeowners.  Schuette said that Michigan residents will receive approximately a half-billion dollars, including a $101 million fund provided directly to the State of Michigan.

January 31, 2012

LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today praised the release of a thorough study conducted by the Great Lakes Commission and the St. Lawrence Cities Initiative that examines a permanent ecological separation of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins, noting the group completed the study in just 18 months, whereas the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study may not be complete by 2015 or beyond.

January 25, 2012

LANSING - Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced a public safety legislative initiative to make Michigan safer by putting 1,000 new police on patrol and taking repeat violent offenders off the streets with the VO-4 plan that creates a minimum 25-year sentence for violent criminals who have committed four felonies.  Schuette was joined at the announcement by Mrs. Linda Nehasil, widow of Livonia Officer Larry Nehasil, Detroit Chief of Police Ralph Godbee, former Livonia Chief of Police Robert Stevenson, county prosecutors, and representatives from the Police Officers Association of Michigan and the Fraternal Order of Police.