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Audit office is watchdog on bond money for economic development (access required)

The State of Mississippi gives but can also take away when it comes to handing companies tens of millions of dollars in bond money to build or expand their operations in the state. The money from the Mississippi Economic Development Bond Project comes with conditions and if those conditions are not met, the State insists [...] [...]

Fewer than 5,000 Mississippi foreclosed homeowners to get financial settlements (access required)

About 4,235 Mississippi homebuyers whose homes were foreclosed on may be eligible for cash payments under a national settlement reached with five giant banks for fraudulent foreclosure practices, Attorney General Jim Hood’s office said. The national foreclosure fraud settlement provides an estimated $47.1 million in direct relief to Mississippi homeowners and addresses future mortgage loan [...] [...]

Judge puts release of Barbour’s pardoned prisoners on hold

A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who’d been given pardons or medical release by Republican Haley Barbour in one of his final acts as governor. Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late yesterday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood. Hood said he believes Barbour might’ve violated [...] [...]

FBI investigating Southaven mayor Greg Davis

JACKSON — The FBI has confirmed that it is investigating the mayor of Mississippi’s third largest city who was already ordered by state officials to pay more than $170,000 for travel, stress counseling and other personal expenses billed to taxpayers. >> SEE MBJ COLUMNIST NANCY ANDERSON’S COLUMN ON DAVIS Southaven Mayor Greg Davis had already [...] [...]

Cartoon – October 31, 2011 (access required)

by Ricky Nobile Published: October 30,2011

Tags: governor's race, Jim Hood, Johnny Dupree, MBJ cartoon, Phil Bryant, ricky nobile

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Hood & Simpson Debate Obamacare

by Stephen McDill Published: October 3,2011

Tags: Jim Hood, Obamacare, Steve Simpson

JACKSON- Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood and his Republican challenger Steve Simpson debate the state’s legal and political involvement in challenging Obamacare. [...]

Hood: “Feinberg is BP”

by Stephen McDill Published: July 13,2011

Tags: BP claims, BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, Jim Hood, Ken Feinberg

JACKSON- Miss. Attorney General Jim Hood announces his office has filed a petition with the Court to force the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) and its administrator, Ken Feinberg to obey a previous subpoena regarding certain documents relevant to an investigation of the 2010 BP oil spill claims process. [...]

Gartin Justice Building Dedication

by Stephen McDill Published: May 22,2011

Tags: Bill Waller, Carroll Gartin, Charles Pickering, Jim Hood

JACKSON- Judges, elected and retired state officials, attorneys and the general public gather at the recently opened Carroll Gartin Justice Building (named for the late lieutenant governor) to christen the new home of the Mississippi Supreme Court. [...]

FIGHT GOES ON (access required)

by Ted Carter Published: April 24,2011

Tags: Dean DeBuck, Jim Hood, John Allison, Tom Miller

Federal regulators have reached an initial settlement with the nation’s largest banks, but the deal will not stop a 50-state coalition of attorneys general from pursuing answers and possible penalties relating to a wave of flawed foreclosures that swept the country last fall, says Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, leader of the AGs coalition. The [...] [...]

Foreclosure settlement could aid underwater Mississippians (access required)

by Ted Carter Published: March 20,2011

Tags: Gretchen Morgenson, Jim Hood, John Allison, MBJ FEATURE

A proposed $20-billion settlement to an investigation of fraudulent mortgage foreclosure practices across the nation could help underwater borrowers in Mississippi hang on to their homes through write downs on principal balances. But the wider price could involve a block to the state bringing further legal action on related foreclosure wrongdoings. Mississippi Attorney General Jim [...] [...]

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