Rich Finneran, an attorney with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and a former federal prosecutor, announced Oct. 22 that he plans to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for Missouri Attorney General. “As a former prosecutor, I know how important it is ...

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Gov. Mike Parson has named Eric Schmitt, currently the state’s treasurer, to be the next attorney general.

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Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, wants to do away with a provision in the federal tax code that bars religious organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained audio of ...

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The decision made by the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District on Aug. 8 to uphold the indefinite detention of a man designated by a jury to be a sexually violent predator drew a dissent from the chief judge. In ...

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Kurt Schaefer and Scott Sifton both are state senators, partners in large law firms and have worked in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. That’s where the similarities end.

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One of the Missouri Senate’s few remaining lawyers said Monday that he plans to seek the Democratic nomination for attorney general in 2016.

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An appeals court said Thursday that a diabetic police officer who shot a man during a hypoglycemic reaction may be entitled to immunity.

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A sex offender who won a $25,000 verdict from a federal jury last month has been committed as a sexually violent predator.

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The state obtained a record amount this year in pursuing Medicaid fraud. Attorney General Chris Koster announced today that his office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit collected $81.6 million in 2009 – that’s more than double the previous record of $33.6 ...

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A Springfield insurance broker pleaded guilty today in Greene County Circuit Court to a Medicaid fraud scheme in which state officials say he misused $700,000. The Missouri Attorney General’s office says Kevin Louderback sent false applications to a special state ...

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A pharmacy owner will pay more than $3.9 million to settle a Medicaid fraud case against him, the attorney general’s office said today. Noel R. Botsch owns Special Design Health Care, based in Cape Girardeau. The specialty business provides in-home ...

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