For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 26, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced $1,202,828 in nine Environmental Enhancement Grants (EEGs) to protect North Carolina’s air, water, and natural resources in central North Carolina. In 2023, Attorney General Stein is awarding $2.3 million in EEGs to 18 recipients throughout North […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and 41 other bipartisan attorneys general today sued Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, for allegedly designing their social media platforms to hook children and teenagers and deceiving the public by claiming that these platforms were safe and […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, October 20, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement after Gov. Cooper signed the SAFE Act (H415) into law. The legislation will help prevent addiction treatment fraud in North Carolina and passed the General Assembly unanimously. “The SAFE Act will hold accountable […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 19, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $1.4 million bipartisan multistate settlement with health care clearinghouse Inmediata for exposing the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 1.5 million consumers over almost three years. Inmediata will also overhaul its data security and breach notification […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 ACI Will Pay North Carolina More Than $395,000 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $10 million settlement with ACI Worldwide, a payment processor company, over a 2021 testing error that led to the attempted unauthorized withdrawal of $2.3 billion from the […]
October 2023 Domestic violence is a horrific crime that poses a real and constant threat to victims. At its most tragic, it can be fatal. Already this year, 57 North Carolinians have lost their lives to domestic violence homicides. During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we shine a light on this crime that often occurs in […]
Friday, October 13, 2023 The horrific stories we are all reading about Saturday’s attack in Israel are hard to process, but our hearts go out to the innocents. During a crisis like this, you may want to donate to relief efforts. Unfortunately, scammers will stop at nothing to take advantage of people, even those who […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, October 13, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today published a revised Senior Scam Guide, available here. The guide provides a look at the common scams and tactics that scammers use to target vulnerable North Carolinians, particularly older people, and steal their money and personal information. […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 12, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 The multistate brief urges the Fifth Circuit to uphold the U.S. Department of Education’s student loan discharge authority and other protections for harmed borrowers (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged an appeals court to uphold the Department of Education’s “Borrower Defense Rule.” […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and a bipartisan group of 13 Attorneys General from Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, released the following joint statement on the current situation in Israel and […]