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		<title>Craigslist Drops Hookers From Famous Website, In U.S. Anyway</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/09/04/craigslist-drops-hookers-from-famous-website-in-us-anyway</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under pressure from state Attorneys General, Craigslist has replaced the adult services section with the word censored, CNN reported today. &#8220;It was not immediately clear whether Craigslist removed the adult services and replaced them with the &#8220;censored&#8221; section that had a link that was not active. But for users who accessed the account outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn Officials Preparing Legal Action To Force Positive Energy CEO To Pay $100,000 Bank Fraud Fine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fast-talking salesman Joseph Ventura, who pulled the rug over the eyes of state regulators by hiding his involvement in Positive Energy Electric when it was seeking approval to be an electricity reseller, will face having to pay a $100,000 fine for bank fraud. Ventura was fined the maximum amount permissible by state banking regulators two years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal: AG And Senate Candidate Questioning NewAlliance Bank Takeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal &#8212; AND Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate &#8211; today wrote First Niagara and NewAlliance banks asking them to provide information on and justification for their proposed merger. Under Connecticut law, the state Department of Banking may only approve bank mergers that benefit Connecticut’s economy and the public, Blumenthal said in releasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DPUC To Investigate Connecticut Water Co.</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/30/dpuc-to-investigate-connecticut-water-co</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) &#8212; less than a week after his request &#8212; has agreed to investigate the Connecticut Water Company’s (CWC) possible plans to reduce its workforce mere weeks after it was permitted to raise rates to fund higher staffing levels. “I commend the DPUC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal Asks Pratt To Avoid Layoff Of 129 At Cheshire Plant</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/27/blumenthal-asks-pratt-to-avoid-layoff-of-129-at-cheshire-plant</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today called on Pratt &#38; Whitney to avoid the projected layoff of 129 workers at its Cheshire plant by reducing overtime, instituting furloughs or taking other steps short of letting go workers. Pratt &#38; Whitney currently has many Cheshire plant employees working overtime and on weekends. In a letter to Pratt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn Water To Lay Off Employees After Getting Rate Increase To Hire More</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/26/conn-water-to-lay-off-employees-after-getting-rate-increase-to-hire-more</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is urging an investigation into the Connecticut Water Company’s (CWC) possible plans to reduce its workforce mere weeks after the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) approved a rate increase to fund higher staffing levels. Blumenthal’s office learned about the layoffs through an anonymous employee, and later confirmed with the company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn Officials Turn Up The Heat On Rite Aid Price Increases</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/25/conn-officials-turn-up-the-heat-on-rite-aid-price-increases</link>
		<comments>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/25/conn-officials-turn-up-the-heat-on-rite-aid-price-increases#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a request by Conn. Gov. Rell, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, in cooperation with the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP), today issued a subpoena to Rite Aid demanding information about significant changes and price increases to a discount drug program that the company falsely blamed on a new state law. The law requires pharmacies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Tax Lady,” Sued by Calif Atty Gen For &#8220;Heartless Scheme&#8221; to Swindle Thousands of Taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/24/8982</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roni Deutch, television’s “Tax Lady,” was sued Monday for perpetrating a“heartless scheme” that swindled thousands of people across the nation into paying huge fees to stop the IRS from collecting back taxes, Kathy Kristoff reports in her Devil in the Details column.

 “Tax Lady Roni Deutch…promises to significantly reduce [client's] IRS tax debts, but instead preys on their vulnerability, taking large up-front payments but providing little or no help in lowering their tax bills,” said California Attorney General Jerry Brown when announcing the suit.]]></description>
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		<title>Craiglist Adult Section Should Be Shut Down, State Attys Gen Demand</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/24/craiglist-adult-section-should-be-shut-down-state-attys-gen-demand</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today, joined by 16 other state attorneys general, is calling on craigslist to immediately remove the Adult Services portion of the site due to continued rampant prostitution advertisements and mounting public outrage. The multi-state letter, to craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster and founder Craig Newmark, contends that craigslist cannot &#8212; or will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Wesleyan University Investment Director Sued By Atty Gen For Misusing Assets</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/08/23/former-wesleyan-university-investment-director-sued-by-atty-gen-for-misusing-assets</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is suing Wesleyan University’s former investment director and three private companies for allegedly misusing university endowment assets for personal trips and other inappropriate expenses. Blumenthal’s lawsuit alleges that Thomas Kannam, when he served as Wesleyan’s chief investment officer, failed to disclose his ties to multiple investment groups, including Belstar Group, LLC, [...]]]></description>
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