Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.
My investigation found Sallie Mae put student borrowers into expensive subprime loans that it knew were going to fail.
Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.
Navient/Sallie Mae treated student loan borrowers unfairly from start to finish.
In every community in Illinois, same-sex couples have chosen to join together and, in many instances, to raise families of their own. These couples are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, co-workers and parents of our children's classmates. They deserve the same rights and responsibilities that civil marriage offers straight couples.
I initiated the State's investigation of Governor Blagojevich and have prosecuted public officials, including a sitting democratic state representative and democratic State's Attorney.
Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.
A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.
Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.
The creation of a consumer agency, structured similarly to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, levels the playing field. It gives consumers a powerful advocate at the federal level.
The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.
The Attorney General is the state's chief consumer advocate, fighting to protect the financial security of all Illinoisans.
Your mortgage shouldn't have been treated as a wager - it should be a way to provide a home and financial stability for you and your family.
While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.
In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families.
If home ownership is the American dream, then foreclosure certainly is the American nightmare. It destroys more than credit. It destroys lives. And its effects are felt beyond the individual family that it devastates. It shakes our entire economy.
Much of the blame for the Great Recession lies with abuses in the housing market - namely the creation of risky and unsustainable home loans that were packaged and sold as quality investments around the globe.
It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.
For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.
We've done amazing things for the state. Some of them have had a national impact, but I'm going to be ready for some new challenges, and so I'm not going to seek a fifth term as attorney general.
