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• Banks Committee Chairs, Attorney General Blumenthal: Legislation Will Protect Vulnerable Consumers From Predatory Scams

• Banks Committee Chairs, Attorney General Issue Subpoenas For A.I.G. Employees

• National Charities Information Bureau

  The Alliance reports on nationally soliciting charitable organizations that are the subject of donor inquiries.

• National Fraud Information Center

  The NFIC was originally established in 1992 by the National Consumers League, the oldest nonprofit consumer organization in the United States, to fight the growing menace of telemarketing fraud by improving prevention and enforcement.

• Linda Spoonster Schwatz, RN, DrPh, FAAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2003-016 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  Your office has requested a formal opinion regarding whether the Department of Veterans' Affairs (hereinafter "DVA") has properly amended its Veterans' Benefits Guide (hereinafter "Guide") to reflect recent changes in the law.

• Senator Kevin B. Sullivan, State of Connecticut Senate, 2003-008 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have requested a formal opinion as to whether employees of state-aided institutions, as defined in Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-175, are authorized to participate in the Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP) created in 2003 by Conn. Pub. Act No. 03-02. If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, you have also inquired as to whether such employees are bound by the reemployment provisions contained in the State Employees Retirement Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 5-152 to 5-192x (hereinafter SERA or the Retirement Act).

• Honorable Audrey Rowe, Department of Income Maintenance, 1992-015 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  By letter of February 4, 1992. you requested an opinion of the Attorney General on the State's ability to pursue statutory support obligations against the community (non-institutionalized) spouse of an institutionalized Medicaid patient, in view of certain provisions contained in the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (MCCA), Pub.L. 100-360.

• Honorable Bessye Bennett, Commission on Victim Services, 1992-011 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  We are in receipt of a letter dated December 3, 1991, from the Commission's Administrator, John C. Ford, with an attached letter dated October 21, 1991, from Dr. Roger J. Harris. The issue on which you seek our guidance is whether the Commission must conduct an administrative hearing on the individual's application based upon the oral surgeon's letter dated October 21, 1991, which your agency interprets as a request for such a hearing.

• Honorable Clifton A. Leonhardt, Chairperson-Department of Public Utility Control, 1992-022 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This will respond to your request for an opinion of the Attorney General concerning political activity of commissioners of the Public Utility Control Authority. The provisions of Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-5 provide that a commissioner may be removed for: "Misconduct, material neglect of duty, incompetence in the conduct of his office, or active participation in political management or campaigns by any commissioner.... In particular you ask whether the following two scenarios present violations: attendance at dinners, or social events (1) in connection with financial contributions to political parties or candidates of such political parties for public office; or (2) in connection with the affairs of the political parties or their candidates, without regard to any financial contributions.

• Blumenthal, Courtney Warn About Harmful Mortgage Rescue Deals Hitting Connecticut

• Blumenthal, Himes Discuss Federal Legislation, Issue Consumer Warnings To Holiday Travelers Before They Pay At The Pump

• Blumenthal, Sen. Duff And Rep. Barry Seek Protections Against Predatory Tax Refund Anticipation Loans

• Public Interest Research Group

  U.S. PIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated, or our natural environment is threatened, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, U.S. PIRG speaks up and takes action.

• Shaun B. Cashman, Commissioner of Labor, 2003-013 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  As you are aware, section 31-57f of the Connecticut General Statutes provides for the payment of a standard wage rate to certain service workers employed by some contractors of the State or its agents. It has come to our attention that there has been uncertainty as to whether this statute requires such employers to raise wages during the life of a contract to match the prevailing standard wage rate as that rate increases, or whether the statute only requires those employers to pay service workers at the rate that was in effect at the time the contract was executed.

• Honorable Edward C. Krawiecki, Jr., Minority Leader-House of Representatives, 1992-014 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This letter is in response to your letter of March 12, 1992, in which you requested our opinion on the following issue: Is there any lawful basis upon which a municipality may refuse to meet the requirements of a state law when compliance with the law will result in costs to the municipality which are not reimbursed or otherwise borne by the state?