FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 20, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson and 51 other Republican and Democratic Attorneys General asked an appeals court to protect veterans’ rights to receive the full possible educational benefits available to them after they serve in the armed forces. “After I served […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 14, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson today announced that Wendell Lewis Randall was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to repay more than $2 million after pleading guilty to one count of health care fraud and one count of money laundering. […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, March 13, 2025 CONTACT: Ben Conroy, NCDOJ (984) 383-9038 bconroy@ncdoj.gov Logen Hodges, NCTA (919) 695-6611 llhodges4@ncdot.gov ***Video footage for media use is available here. RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson and the North Carolina Turnpike Authority are warning North Carolinians about a surge in text message scams falsely claiming to be from […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 7, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH — Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson, a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general, and the United States Department of Justice proposed an end to Google’s illegal monopoly over internet search engines and changes to restore competition to benefit consumers. North Carolina is one […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the federal government’s efforts to protect a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that guarantees access to critical preventive care for millions of Americans. The Supreme […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson and a bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general urged Congress to act now to help stop organized retail crime. Organized retail crime occurs when groups of people work together to steal large amounts of merchandise from […]
Friday, February 21, 2025 Patients across the country, including in North Carolina, are widely using weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound. However, due to quickly rising demand and supply shortages, counterfeit versions of these drugs are flowing into the United States from countries including India, China, and Turkey. These fake pills […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson and 37 bipartisan Attorneys General called on the Food and Drug Administration to stop bad actors from selling harmful counterfeit versions of popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound or illegally selling […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Contact: Ben Conroy (984) 383-9038 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that the state’s price gouging law is in effect across the state after Governor Josh Stein declared a state of emergency in advance of this week’s winter weather. The price gouging law makes it unlawful […]
Friday, February 14, 2025 Online dating and social media can be great ways to meet someone new, start a new relationship, or make a new friend. However, it’s important to be careful when interacting with new people online. Some bad actors, also called “sweetheart scammers,” might be looking to earn your trust just to get […]