For Immediate Release: Friday, May 28, 2021 Contact: (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein won a default judgment against Alpha Finance Company, a Sparta-based lender that closed in July 2019 and left some borrowers with outstanding secured loans that had balances and others with paid-off loans whose liens had not been cancelled by Alpha. As a […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he reached a $500,000 settlement to resolve allegations that Dr. Kwadwo Gyarteng-Dakwa and the HEAG Pain Management Center, PA of Durham, with additional offices in Greensboro, Greenville, and Archdale, submitted false claims to Medicaid and […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged congressional leaders to support the Fraud and Scam Reduction Act. The act, comprised of the Stop Senior Scam Act and Seniors Fraud Prevention Act of 2021, will assist stakeholders in training employees to recognize the warning […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement: “Today is the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. I join the millions of Americans who take time today to pause and reflect on how his death tragically exposed the systemic racism […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 24, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Attorney General Merrick Garland to reinstate and expand guidance to help public elementary and secondary schools discipline students equitably. “When we treat students unfairly based on their race, sexual […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today sued internet service provider Frontier Communications, alleging that the company did not provide many people with internet service at the speeds it promised them and charged many of them for more expensive and higher-speed services than Frontier […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced that Latisha Harron of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to 170 months in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $300 in special assessments and $13,396,921.64 in restitution to the North Carolina Medicaid […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein commended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for its proposed rule to undo the Trump administration’s 2019 Title X Rule, which harmed women, people living in rural areas, people of color, and members of the […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today joined leaders in the legislature to provide an update on the effort to test older sexual assault kits in local law enforcement custody. Of 16,190 older kits, 8,369 have been completely tested (2,965) or are in process […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) North Carolina’s price gouging law is in effect after Gov. Roy Cooper yesterday declared a statewide state of emergency in response to the temporary shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline. The pipeline was shut down after a ransomware cyberattack. “The hackers who breached Colonial Pipeline’s […]