Fraud is fraud. And consumers of any product – whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football – our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can’t commit fraud. – Eric Schneiderman
When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true. – Eric Schneiderman
We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have. – Eric Schneiderman
My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main Street. I’m going to go after crime and corruption, wherever it is. – Eric Schneiderman
For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections. – Eric Schneiderman
As the state’s top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse. – Eric Schneiderman
We’ve got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor – which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I’m concerned – is somehow dealt with. – Eric Schneiderman
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
In New York, we have laws against defrauding the public, defrauding consumers, defrauding shareholders. – Eric Schneiderman
When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women’s Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women. – Eric Schneiderman
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
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
Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children – and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day. – Eric Schneiderman
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
Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes. – Eric Schneiderman
As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the laws that protect our people from harm. But another fundamental part of my job is to seek to advance the basic American principle of equal justice under law. – Eric Schneiderman
In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law. – Eric Schneiderman
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
A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school dedicated to educating Native-American boys. – Eric Schneiderman
When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk. – Eric Schneiderman
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
High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They’re massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off. – Eric Schneiderman
In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming. – Eric Schneiderman
Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence. – Eric Schneiderman
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government. – Eric Schneiderman