Schneiderman says mortgage foreclosure a key issue for attorney general agenda

Attorney General-elect Eric Schneiderman’s legislative agenda may feel like deja vu for a lot of New Yorkers, according to the New York Times, with mortgage foreclosure woes ranking among his top priorities. Like past attorneys general Elliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo, Schneiderman said he plans to take aim at Wall Street, including mortgage lenders who may have contributed to our current fiscal malaise. “I’m very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown, issues related to mortgage foreclosures [and] debt collection,” Schneiderman said. [NYT]