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The Commonwealth Attorneys Act of 1980 [6] established the Office of Attorney General as an independent office headed by an elected attorney general. [7] The office has the responsibility for the prosecution of those crimes prosecuted by the commonwealth, including organized crime and public corruption, as well as civil litigation on behalf of some, but not all, commonwealth agencies and the ...
She previously served under Shapiro as first deputy attorney general. Henry formerly served as the district attorney of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2010. She declined to run for election to a full term in the attorney general's office in the 2024 election. Shapiro subsequently appointed Henry to become Pennsylvania Inspector General ...
The 2024 Pennsylvania Attorney General election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Republican York County district attorney Dave Sunday defeated former auditor general Eugene DePasquale in the general election, becoming the first Republican attorney general since 2013. [ 1 ]
The office is one of Pennsylvania’s three independent row offices (the other two are the state treasurer and the state auditor general), and at least one past attorney general has seized on that ...
Get to know the men vying to become the commonwealth's top prosecutor in the 2024 election.
Pennsylvania’s attorney general defends the state’s election practices and outcomes, which have become a target of legal challenges since the 2020 presidential contest.
Joshua David Shapiro (born June 20, 1973) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023 and was on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners from 2012 to 2017.
Kathleen Margaret Kane (née Granahan) [2] is an American former politician and lawyer who served as the attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2013 until her resignation in 2016, following her conviction for perjury, obstruction of justice, and related charges for illegal activities while she was attorney general. [3]