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State AG Updates: February 16-22, 2023

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Each week, Crowell & Moring's State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week's updates.

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Each week, Crowell & Moring's State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week's updates.

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  • A coalition of 41 attorneys general are fighting to ensure that state, local and tribal entities have appropriate and timely access to corporate ownership information that is crucial to fighting corruption, organized crime, white-collar crime and terrorism. Accordingly, the coalition sent a letter to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the U.S. Department of Treasury. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 41 other attorneys general outlined the need for nonfederal agencies to be able to access information without unnecessary and burdensome requirements.

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