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Missouri Office of the Attorney General

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Ed Martin To Run for ... Something

    ​Republican Ed Martin has kiboshed his plans to run for Congress, because the Missouri Attorney General's job seems more appealing. Or more attainable, maybe. Martin has previously announced his intentions for Congressional seats in Missouri's 2nd and 3rd districts, as well as one in the U.S. Sena ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Lawsuit Accuses QuikTrip of Predatory Pricing

    QuikTrip was accused before of price cutting.​You love their corndogs, taquitos and bathtub-sized fountain drinks. And the cheap gas isn't bad, either. But is QuikTrip's low-priced petrol illegally inexpensive? That's what a lawsuit filed last week in federal court contends. Members of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Another Missouri Dog Breeder Found in Violation of State Animal Cruelty Codes

    ​The Missouri Attorney General announced today it received a consent judgment against a dog breeder in southwestern Missouri for violating the state's animal cruelty codes. Like a similar case last month, the breeder operated in Lawrence County in the southwest corner of the state. According to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Missouri AG Renews Call for Banning Over-the-Counter Sale of Pseudoephedrine

    ​Speaking to the Missouri Sheriffs Association yesterday in Joplin, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster reiterated his desire to see a statewide ban on the over-the-counter sale of pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient for meth. For the tenth year in a row, Missouri has led the nation in the numb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Puppy Mill Law Enforced for First Time; 70 Dogs Taken from Missouri Breeder

    The dogs rescued lived among rodent droppings. Old and sick dogs had been shot to death.​Inspectors from the Missouri Department of Agriculture today removed more than 70 dogs from a Monett-based breeder in the first-ever enforcement of the state's new Canine Cruelty Prevention Act. Violations ... More >>

  • News

    February 10, 2011

    Joel King takes Real Life from the street to the stage to the nation

    The dogs rescued lived among rodent droppings. Old and sick dogs had been shot to death.​Inspectors from the Missouri Department of Agriculture today removed more than 70 dogs from a Monett-based breeder in the first-ever enforcement of the state's new Canine Cruelty Prevention Act. Violations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Ass Clowns of the Week: Kings of Leon

    Kings of Leon, Lords of AssClownia​The people have spoken, and at last perhaps we can put the issue to rest. In convincing fashion, readers of Daily RFT have voted Kings of Leon as the biggest Ass Clowns of the week (July 23-July 30) -- stemming from their recent concert at Verizon Wireless Amphit ... More >>

  • News

    June 16, 2010

    Missouri's E. coli problems are not confined to the Lake of the Ozarks

    Kings of Leon, Lords of AssClownia​The people have spoken, and at last perhaps we can put the issue to rest. In convincing fashion, readers of Daily RFT have voted Kings of Leon as the biggest Ass Clowns of the week (July 23-July 30) -- stemming from their recent concert at Verizon Wireless Amphit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Missouri Attorney General: Craigslist Prostitution Ads "As Prominent as Ever"

    ​Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced today that he has joined Connecticut and other states in issuing a subpoena to craigslist seeking evidence that the company is fulfilling its public promise to block advertisements for prostitution and other illegal activity, and whether the compan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Saturday is "Shred Day" in St. Louis

    Shred Day: Dwight Schrute approved.​Not going to the KKK picnic on Saturday? Don't worry there's still plenty of other things to do in and around St. Louis that day. Like, for instance, celebrating St. Louis annual Shred Day. What is Shred Day? Why it's only the best darn holiday of the season -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    FBI Investigating St. Louis County Executive's Office?

    Image Via Charlie Dooley's words exactly​That's the word coming from KMOX this morning. Citing anonymous sources, the station's Kevin Kileen reports that the FBI's "probe goes all the way up the elevator." Here's the issue at the heart of the rumored wrongdoing:  The feds are looking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Israeli Locksmith Ring Charged with Fraud; Group Operated in Missouri and Florida

    Question is: Can you keep a locksmith in prison if he doesn't want to be there?​Here's a curious tale coming out of the U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis. Last week federal investigators charged Eliyahu Barhanun of Creve Coeur and two other men from Florida on federal charges involving a scam of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Owner of Pre-Paid Funeral Company Indicted for Fraud, Money Laundering

    Sutton allegedly used Wite Out to wipe out customers' accounts.​Randall Sutton, former chief financial officer, president and director of the now defunct Clayton business, National Prearranged Services Inc., was indicted this week of a massive fraud involving pre-paid funerals in some 19 states. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Attorney General Chris Koster: Fighting Hard for That Extra 48 Cents

    ago.mo.govThis just in from Chris Koster. The state's attorney general is pleased to announce that his office received payments of $155,768,810.48 in tobacco-settlement money in April. What most impresses me is not the $155 million. It's that we have an attorney general who's willing to fight for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Case Alleging Fraud Dismissed Before Trial

    Here's an update to a post I wrote earlier this week about a lawsuit in St. Louis County that had been slated for trial Monday. Turns out the case was actually dismissed sometime last Friday and never went to trial. I did not know this because the court's online database did not update until after I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Trial Alleging Business Fraud Should Be Lively, Even If Much is Off Limits

    healthcareeragents.com Brian Marchant-CalsynAn interesting civil trial gets under way today in St. Louis County Court. Gary Schwarz, a New Jersey resident, is suing Town & Country business Health Career Agents Inc., alleging that its owner, Brian Marchant-Calsyn, fraudently withheld infor ... More >>

  • News

    October 15, 2008

    Mavericky!: Alderman and ex-cop John Hoffmann aims to rid Town & Country of dirty rotten four-flushers, varmints and deer

    healthcareeragents.com Brian Marchant-CalsynAn interesting civil trial gets under way today in St. Louis County Court. Gary Schwarz, a New Jersey resident, is suing Town & Country business Health Career Agents Inc., alleging that its owner, Brian Marchant-Calsyn, fraudently withheld infor ... More >>

  • News

    June 25, 2008

    Artless in St. Louis: Suppose they gave an art fair and nobody came?

    healthcareeragents.com Brian Marchant-CalsynAn interesting civil trial gets under way today in St. Louis County Court. Gary Schwarz, a New Jersey resident, is suing Town & Country business Health Career Agents Inc., alleging that its owner, Brian Marchant-Calsyn, fraudently withheld infor ... More >>

  • News

    March 28, 2007

    Back to the Bolozone

    The "anarchists" finally get their day in court.

  • News

    June 21, 2006

    Mi Casa? Sue Casa!

    Hispanic immigrants cry foul over an alleged St. Louis housing scam

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    Foul Play

    Why is everyone out to get Randy Wichman?

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Uncomfortably Numb

    Lethal injection looks painless and peaceful. On Missouri's death row, appearances can be deceiving.

  • Music

    November 17, 2004

    DUI or DWB?

    Murphy Lee's publicist says the rapper was pulled over for Driving While Black

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Semen Says

    A new DNA test casts serious doubt on George Allen's guilt. So why is he still in prison?

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    Bill's Bills

    The St. Louis school board might have to pony up for the defense in Roberti v. Haas

  • News

    October 29, 2003

    Two-Steppin'

    The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a Missouri cop could justifiably dance around Miranda

  • News

    July 12, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Published the week of July 12-18, 2000

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