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For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced $150,000 in grants to protect and improve the environment in Ashe and Lincoln Counties through the Environmental Enhancement Grant (EEG) program. Across the state, Attorney General Stein will award nearly $3 million in grants to 22 […]

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today called on the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed rule that would strip workers of key protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The proposed rule would make it easier for employers to classify employees as […]

For Immediate Release: Monday, October 26, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein, along with the National Association of Attorneys General and a bipartisan group of 35 attorneys general, today released the following statement about protecting the integrity of the elections and safeguarding every person’s right to vote. “As state and […]

For Immediate Releaes: Friday, October 23, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Jerry Lewis Taylor of Wingate was sentenced to five years in prison followed by two years of supervised release and ordered to pay more than $6.1 million to the North Carolina Medicaid program and more […]

For Immediate Release: Friday, October 23, 2020 Contact: Laura Brewer (919) 716-6484 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill today co-authored and filed an amicus brief in Facebook v. Noah Duguid, a U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine the scope of the protections of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act […]