An organization of state attorneys general is drawing criticism for courting sponsorships for lavish conferences and foreign junkets, giving corporate patrons and lobbyists exclusive access to officials who may one day be investigating them.
. His panel on "evolving litigation trends" examined how "attorneys general and businesses can navigate these issues together."
More than half its income in the 12 months ending in June 2020, and nearly two-thirds of its revenue the year before, came from sponsorships, according to itsthose offices secure.In response to a request for comment, the AGA referred Axios to a statement from NAAG's president, Iowa AG Tom Miller, who distanced"They were his statements alone and they were not made on behalf of NAAG," Miller said.
Access to AGA meetings, where company executives can meet state AGs and discuss major policy issues, is available only to the organization's donors, according to that report. AGA "is all about the trips, all about the experience, all about the fun," a former senior aide to one member AG told Axios. "They've been starting to encroach on the NAAG space, trying to be the alternative to NAAG, in that it was this bipartisan organization, but they were the more fun kind of group.
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