Some good news articles today about the important work of state Attorneys General:
A Labyrinthine Path to Justice (Washington Post)
But progressing more slowly is the work of investigators probing dozens of companies for fraud and insider trading in connection with the subprime mortgage crisis that set off the country's current economic woes.
FBI officials said yesterday that they are conducting criminal investigations of 16 companies, while their partners at the Securities and Exchange Commission are probing nearly two dozen more. Those federal investigations follow subpoenas from attorneys general in at least four states and class-action lawsuits that target home builders, lenders, credit-rating agencies and the banks that packaged groups of mortgages into securities.
State AG Says Insurer's Data Cheated Consumers (Newsday)
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he plans to sue UnitedHealth Group -- the country's largest health insurer -- and its subsidiary, Ingenix, after the company allegedly manipulated data to cheat consumers out of adequate reimbursements for medical care.
And another good article on patient safety problems in Connecticut:
Hospitals Deserve Scrutiny (Hartford Courant)
By the way, Connecticut has a patient safety organization that does great work.
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