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" Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence. "
Eric Schneiderman
Outside
Influence
Laws
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" When a donor is asked to contribute to a group whose innocuous-sounding name makes it appear to be doing work in the public interest, that donor should have a clear picture of where his or her money is going. "
Eric Schneiderman
Name
Doing
Work
" Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office. "
Eric Schneiderman
Think
Office
More
" Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state. "
Eric Schneiderman
Abandoned
Over
Problem
" You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law. "
Eric Schneiderman
Law
Engage
Above
" A factory-installed security measure - one that phone owners would have to opt out of, rather than opting in - could automatically render purloined devices inoperable on any network, anywhere in the world. No resale value, no thefts. "
Eric Schneiderman
World
Measure
Phone
" We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will. "
Eric Schneiderman
Possibilities
Look
Fraud
" History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen. "
Eric Schneiderman
Reward
History
You
" After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from. "
Eric Schneiderman
Used
Cash
Elections
" Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education. "
Eric Schneiderman
Higher Education
Education
New York
" Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones - no questions asked - and then 'jailbreak' them. They unlock the units, erase their data, reprogram them, and put them up for resale. "
Eric Schneiderman
Data
Phones
Pay
" Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than the sweatshops of 1911. "
Eric Schneiderman
Working
Right
People
" From the Bronx to Buffalo, cities and towns in New York have been plagued by what are commonly called zombie properties. These are homes that residents abandon - often after they have received a foreclosure notice - which then languish, uncared-for, until the foreclosure process is complete. "
Eric Schneiderman
New
Process
Zombie
" When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk. "
Eric Schneiderman
Everyone
Trust
Risk
" The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs. "
Eric Schneiderman
Law
Power
New
" Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers. "
Eric Schneiderman
Law
New York
Sports
" Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy. "
Eric Schneiderman
Vote
Democracy
Essential
" The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost. "
Eric Schneiderman
Memory
Fire
Great
" That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. "
Eric Schneiderman
Rules
Justice
Fair
" In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations. "
Eric Schneiderman
Supreme Court
Finance
Rights
" The bottom line is clear: Climate change is a reality, and it is having a real impact. "
Eric Schneiderman
Reality
Climate Change
Change
" The president and I had much more important stuff to talk about than Donald Trump. I've never discussed Mr. Trump with the president of the United States. "
Eric Schneiderman
Important
Donald Trump
Talk
" I don't think it's any secret that the public has lost confidence in the state government, and there's a lot of work that needs to be done on issues related to public integrity. "
Eric Schneiderman
Confidence
Work
Integrity
" A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law. "
Eric Schneiderman
Right
Some
Seek
" Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer. "
Eric Schneiderman
Help
Town
City
" Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country. "
Eric Schneiderman
Sports
Daily
Country
" Here in New York, we are already seeing how climate change contributes to increasingly violent and extreme weather that has cost us dearly, in both damage and in lives. "
Eric Schneiderman
Seeing
New York
Change
" Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law. "
Eric Schneiderman
Gambling
New York
New
" New Yorkers have been fortunate to have Andrew Cuomo as our Attorney General - protecting working New Yorkers against the banks, insurance companies and big corporations. "
Eric Schneiderman
Working
New
Insurance
" The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own labor relations to achieve labor peace and government efficiency and to continue our long tradition of support for workers. "
Eric Schneiderman
Government
Support
Peace
" Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else. "
Eric Schneiderman
Justice
Else
Everyone