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As Attorney General for the State of West Virginia, he was involved in many high-profile national cases, including the 1998 multibillion-dollar State Tobacco Settlement, which secured billions of dollars for the state of West Virginia. As a result of the settlement money, West Virginia saved $2.5 billion due to a bond sale that resulted from ...
Since West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, it has had 34 attorneys general, of whom 33 men have held the office (the inaugural attorney general, Aquilla B. Caldwell of Ohio County, served two nonconsecutive terms). [8] [9] Caldwell was the first Republican to hold the office, and Joseph Sprigg of Hampshire County was the first ...
Charles Gailey Brown III (born June 6, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General of West Virginia.First elected in 1984 and reelected in 1988, he resigned in 1989 in exchange for an end to a grand jury investigation into allegations that he lied under oath and into his campaign financial records. [1]
Jun. 16—West Virginia's Attorney General said Wednesday that he has led a coalition of 24 states in filing formal comments regarding a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission initiative that ...
On July 31, 2014, Morrisey and attorneys general from other states filed a lawsuit West Virginia et al. v. EPA [36] [37] in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging a court ordered [38] settlement over three years earlier on March 2, 2011, between the EPA and 11 states - New York, California ...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) is the projected winner of the state’s gubernatorial race, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ. Morrisey defeated Democratic nominee Steve ...
The Tennessee Attorney General filed a civil lawsuit for alleged deceptive practices against BlueHippo companies, as well as proposing an injunction requiring greater disclosures in advertising and prior to obtaining further payments, as well as the freezing of $2.5 million in cash. [11] West Virginia also sued BlueHippo. [12] [13]
On July 31, 2018, he entered a guilty plea in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia in Charleston to one count of wire fraud. [13] Because of his guilty plea to a felony, the Supreme Court of Appeals annulled Ketchum's license to practice law in the state of West Virginia on October 4, 2018. [14]