Federal regulators are not the only ones flexing their muscles against Corporate America these days. State attorneys general are increasingly joining forces to go after corporate wrongdoers, too.
“Obviously, as we have seen over the last several years, attorneys general have become much more aggressive in the way they pursue investigations,” Hector Gonzalez, a lawyer at the law firm Mayer Brown, said during a Webcast on the subject. One of an attorney general’s primary jobs is to protect consumers, he said, which often leads to blanket challenges of an entire industry.
