Annual report shows more money for taxpayers

Among the office’s other accomplishments in 2007:

• Recovery of a record $9.3 million for consumers through informal mediation efforts, and an additional $8.95 million obtained through court judgments;

• Recovery of more than $14 million of taxpayers’ money from individuals and businesses that defrauded the Medicaid program;

• $138 million brought in to state coffers from U.S. tobacco companies through a 1998 agreement; and

• A historic settlement of $175 million with Ameren, which resolved Nixon’s lawsuit over the Taum Sauk reservoir collapse.

The entire report, “A Strong Voice for Missouri,” is available at www.ago.mo.gov.