California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi declined to disclose the outcome of a review by the state attorney general of alleged blackmail threats by five of the state's auto insurers.

“We are still in discussions with the attorney general and cannot comment on these talks now,” said Norman Williams, a spokesperson for Commissioner Garamendi.

But Tom Dresslar, spokesperson for Attorney General Bill Lockyer, said his department had forwarded the conclusions of a review of the charges to the commissioner's office.

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