Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm will give a talk on Thursday, May 25, at 3:00 p.m. in the Michigan Tech Memorial Union Alumni Lounge.
Granholm will discuss the activities of her office, including formation of a new High Tech Crime Unit to investigate and prosecute Internet and high-tech crime; prosecution for on-line sales of illegal drugs on the Internet; action against on-line child pornographers; and enforcement in the health field (nursing homes and Medicaid).
Questions are welcome, and the University and general community are invited. This forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Copper Country, and refreshments will be served.
Granholm was elected in 1998 and was one of the first state attorneys general to sue the country's largest sweepstakes promoters for deceptive marketing practices. She filed the first-ever criminal charges against an individual for failing to protect the safety of workers on the job. She has also taken criminal action against numerous nursing homes and physicians for either neglecting their patients or attempting to defraud the Michigan Medicaid system and has established the state's first full-time environmental crimes prosecutor.
An honors graduate of both the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, Granholm was appointed Wayne County corporation counsel in 1994. While there, she reduced taxpayer-funded lawsuit payouts by 87 percent. Before joining the Wayne County staff, she was a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office.
More about the Attorney General can be found at http://www.ag.state.mi.us/.
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