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Drug trials done by Pfizer without parent consent in the 2000's resulted in child deaths in Nigeria, and when the attorney general of Nigeria went after Pfizer they hired PI's to coerce him into dropping all charges
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The US Attorney General, at his own discretion, can reschedule Cannabis.
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A man aspiring to become a lawyer was denied admission to the New York bar because his student debt exceeded $400,000. Five appellate judges concluded his payments had been too meager to date and thus he had not "established the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney".
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After Hurricane Sandy, American Red Cross responded to NY Attorney General's public request for information by hiring lawyers and arguing that some information about the response was a "trade secret" and "competitive harm" from competitors mimicking their model
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The Martha Mitchell effect, where a psychiatrist considers an unbelievable story delusional, but it turns out to be true. Named for the alcoholic wife of Nixon's attorney general, called mentally ill after reporting illegal behavior by the administration
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The founder of the FBI, who had also served as Secretary of the Navy and US Attorney General was the great nephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Nicky Barnes was a notorious drug trafficker who posed on the cover of The New York Times Magazine as "Mr. Untouchable". Then President Jimmy Carter was so insulted by this he ordered his attorney general to prosecute Barnes right away. He was convicted and sent to life in prison.
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With the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldering, Attorney General John Ashcroft told a congressional committee that a mosque in Brooklyn was funneling money to al Qaeda. It was the lead story in the New York Times. It turned out to be wrong.
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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft once ran for Senate in Missouri against a dead man. And lost.
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Two attorneys general resigned on a single night, in protest after President Nixon asked them to fire an independent special prosecutor looking into the Watergate scandal. It became known as the Saturday Night Massacre
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John Ashcroft, former US Attorney General, lost a Senate Race, as the incumbent, to man who died weeks before the election
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President John Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, were initially skeptical of the March because they believed it would be infiltrated by communists and other violent radicals.
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McCarthy produced a letter that he claimed was written by then head of the F.B.I., J. Edgar Hoover, warning of communists in the Army signal corps. Although Hoover himself never testified, the Attorney General claimed no such letter was ever written.
Alcatraz was too expensive to maintain and Robert F. Kennedy, the Attorney General at the time, ordered the federal prison to be closed on March 21st, 1963.
Despite often being opposed to the many civil rights activists, F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover supported Attorney General Robert Kennedy's decision to inundate Mississippi with F.B.I. agents.
Blodgett was born in Schenectady, New York where he father was a patent attorney for General Electric.
In 1735 the attorney general Richard Bradley charged John Peter Zenger with libel. He spent almost 10 months in jail awaiting trial.
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Jeannette's brother, Wellington, was a former Attorney General of Montana and Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.
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Stanton was sworn in as Attorney General in President James Buchanan's cabinet on December 20, 1860.
BODIES: The Exhibition, a travelling display of plastinated, dissected cadavers & fetuses, sparked an investigation by Congress & the Attorney General, resulting in resignation of their CEO & a disclaimer that they "cannot independently verify" that the bodies don't belong to executed prisoners.
Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin, with a snake wrapped around his body, once barged into a meeting between his father and the attorney general. Roosevelt immediately sent the youngster, who also had snakes clutched in each hand, to entertain waiting congressmen.
Earl Warren, the 14th Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States and head of the Warren Commission that oversaw the Kennedy assassination investigation, was actually the moving force behind the Japanese internment during WWII while he was the Attorney General of California.
A sound system was installed for Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech but somebody sabotaged it. The Army Corp of Engineers fixed it in time. Robert Kennedy was the Attorney General at the time and recruited the engineers" help.