{"id":3062,"date":"2022-04-29T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economicintegrity.org\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2022-04-29T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:32:20","slug":"arizona-attorney-general-using-consumer-fraud-funds-for-politically-charged-legal-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economicintegrity.org\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Attorney General using consumer fraud funds for politically charged legal fights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2022\/04\/28\/arizona-attorney-general-using-consumer-fraud-funds-politically-charged-legal-fights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i class=\"fas fa-newspaper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> Arizona&#8217;s Family 3TV\/CBS 5 | By Morgan Loew | <span class=\"submitted-date\">April 28, 2022<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PHOENIX (3TV\/CBS 5)<\/strong> &#8211; Consumer fraud complaints are rising dramatically across Arizona and around the country. In Arizona, defending consumers from scams and rip-offs falls to the office of Arizona\u2019s Attorney General Mark Brnovich. Arizona\u2019s Family investigators poured through years of budget records for the Attorney General\u2019s office. The investigation found that Brnovich\u2019s office has increasingly diverted funds earmarked for consumer protection to pay for legal battles that have nothing to do with consumer fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;continued&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2022\/04\/28\/arizona-attorney-general-using-consumer-fraud-funds-politically-charged-legal-fights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona&#8217;s Family 3TV\/CBS 5 | By Morgan Loew | April 28, 2022 PHOENIX (3TV\/CBS 5) &#8211; Consumer fraud complaints are rising dramatically across Arizona and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumer-protection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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