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This 10 page paper provides an extensive overview of the various offices contained under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General. The history of the office is provided as well as practical information. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Attorney General, in New York, is the states Chief Legal Officer ("Tour,"
2000). Eliot Spitzer is the current Attorney General. He won the seat in a close election held in November of 1998. After Spitzer was announced as the victor he
said: " ...now our crusade begins to restore the majesty and grandeur of the attorney generals office " ("Spitzer," 1998, p.3). The change was a surprise to some and welcome
to others. With Spitzer in office, some have suggested that things would change drastically in New York. But how? What does the Attorney General do? The Attorney Generals job is
to defend and protect the people of New York state ("Tour," 2000). There are more than 500 attorneys working in the office of the Attorneys General and additionally there are
more than 1,800 employees (2000). Some employees, in addition to legal and clerical staff, include forensic accountants, scientists, and investigators (2000). This elected office goes back many years,
to the time before there was even a United States of America. In New Netherlands, a schout was appointed and reported directly to the West India Company ("Previous," 2000).
The schout fiscal was responsible for enforcing laws and ordinances of the States-general, and protecting the West India Company (2000) . From the year 1684 to 1777, the Colonial Attorneys
General were appointed by the King of England but from 1777 until 1846, the Attorney General was appointed by the Legislature (2000). It was not until the Constitutional Convention that
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