Fotos de Marzo de 2008

Lizveth Méndez, enlace a la comunidad Latina para la oficina de la Procuradora General Lisa Madigan, escucha atentamente a una pregunta durante una presentación en español en la escuela primaria Lázaro Cárdenas en la vecindad de la Villita de Chicago. Méndez proveo consejos y recursos a padres cuando buscan una hipoteca y como evitar caer víctima de un préstamo rapaz.

Assistant Attorney General Margaret Thomas, assistant chief of Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s Veterans’ Rights Bureau, talks to attorneys and mediators during a training session sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the Labor & Employment Relations Association at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Thomas talked about employees’ and employers’ rights and responsibilities under the Illinois Service Member's Employment Tenure Act. For more information about Madigan’s Veteran’s Rights Bureau, click here.

Eric Salcedo, community outreach coordinator for Attorney General Lisa Madigan, delivers a presentation to retired state employees during a Myths and Realities of Retirement Workshop sponsored by the Illinois State Retirement System in Chicago. Salcedo offered the retirees tips on how to protect themselves from scam artists and identity thieves.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan joins the Reverend Jesse Jackson, left, and the Reverend Steve Jones during a news conference at King College Prep High School in Chicago to discuss her office’s subpoenas to Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and Wells Fargo Financial Illinois, Inc. Madigan’s office seeks to determine whether mortgage lenders unfairly steered African American and Latino borrowers into higher cost or otherwise inappropriate home loans in violation of fair lending and civil rights laws. For more information, click here.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan speaks to delegates at the Illinois Education Association’s (IEA) Annual Convention in Rosemont. This was the association’s 154th Representative Assembly with the theme, “Organize, Empower, Elect.” Later, Madigan joined, from left; Jo Anderson, IEA executive director; Bob Blade, IEA vice president; Cinda Klickna, IEA secretary/treasurer and Ken Swanson, IEA president.

La Procuradora General Lisa Madigan prepara juguetes de niños para examinarlos de plomo en el evento de “Quiten el plomo” en el YMCA del oeste de Cook en Oak Park. Padres trajeron hasta cuatro juguetes de pintura o plástico o prendas de niñas de sus casas para examinarlos. Tim Gifford, izq., un analista con Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. Usa un analizador NITON de la serie XL3 para hacer una prueba de la presencia de substancias restringidas. De ese total, 13 juguetes fueron identificados con tener altos niveles de plomo, incluyendo ocho que tenían el resultado de niveles “muy altos”.