Congress created that office last year to enforce the accountability act.

"However, the attorney general's office in the past has aggressively enforced cases that we suspect were diploma mills," she said.

The Attorney General's office defends the state government against lawsuits and enforces numerous state laws.

The Sheriff's Office enforced the laws alongside the County Patrol and various municipal police departments.

A spokesman for the Comptroller said the office had not enforced its agreement because the bank was making progress in talks with its bondholders about raising capital.

He said that the city had "ample authority" to regulate the market and that if it failed to accept his proposals, his office would then enforce them.

The office administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against specified foreign countries, organizations that are considered sponsors of terrorism and international narcotics traffickers.

But in the Reagan Administration a House Education and Labor Committee report described the office as having "adamantly failed to enforce civil rights laws."

The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Moscow.

Hernandez said that the commissioner's office had enforced his penalty, making sure that the first baseman fulfilled his community-service hours and testing him three times a year.