The National Association of Attorneys General is refusing to release information pertaining to Republican accusations that the group has turned into an unaccountable left-wing litigation machine.
NAAG bills itself as a nonpartisan membership forum that helps state attorneys general fulfill their duties as the top law enforcement officials in their states. But the organization has fallen under the ire of Republican attorneys general who have accused NAAG of scooping up significant portions of multistate settlement agreements intended to help victims and using them instead to fund left-wing programming and litigation slush funds.
"The grant fund annual reports are not public documents, as they contain information related to ongoing investigations, as well as other law enforcement initiatives," Lama said."The rules and regulations of each settlement fund stipulate that these annual reports be provided to members of fund committees. This information is also provided to any NAAG member at any time upon their request.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in a May 24 letter to former NAAG Executive Director Chris Toth that the NAAG's granting practices"incentivizes states to pursue litigation for a financial return, regardless of whether such litigation is justified." NAAG has raked in considerable sums of money from multistate settlements against for-profit companies. NAAG recently reported that, as of the end of 2021, it and its affiliated charity group controlled over $280 million in assets.
"These states have lost thousands of their citizens to the opioid epidemic and represent thousands who still struggle," Cameron wrote in his May 24 letter."Yet NAAG, an entity with no such constituency, collected $15 million."
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