Monday, May 24, 2021 For months our office has received reports of scammers targeting Amazon and Apple customers. We alerted North Carolinians to this scam in December, but our consumer protection specialists have seen a dramatic uptick in recent days. One person even received 27 of these calls in one day. In this scam, a […]
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: Monday, May 17, 2021 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Last week, the FCC opened the Emergency Broadband Benefit, which helps eligible households connect to broadband. The Benefit offers a discount of $50 per month for broadband service, or $75 if the household is on tribal land. Eligible recipients can also receive […]
(RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed an amicus brief to defend a 2014 North Carolina law designed to curb abusive practices by patent trolls – i.e. businesses that exist for the primary purpose of bringing patent infringement lawsuits. Attorney General Stein argues that patent trolls stifle this innovation by forcing North Carolina companies to […]
Friday, May 14, 2021 Our office has learned that scammers are targeting Medicare recipients with offers of unnecessary medical supplies. The scheme uses up the victim’s Medicare benefits, and sometimes leaves them unable to pay for medical supplies with Medicare when they need it. Fraudsters call, email, advertise to, or write letters to Medicare beneficiaries […]
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 […]