Release date: 10/11/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has filed an amicus brief in support of students defrauded by Corinthian Colleges (Corinthian). The brief, filed in the Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, supports Corinthian students who had won an injunction against […]
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Release date: 1/8/2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that The Neiman Marcus Group LLC has agreed to pay $1.5 million and implement a number of policies to resolve an investigation with 43 states and the District of Columbia into the 2013 breach of customer payment card data at 77 Neiman Marcus stores in […]
Release date: 3/26/2018 Bipartisan Group of 37 State Attorneys General Ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for Information on Facebook’s Business Practices and Privacy Protections (RALEIGH) Today, Attorney General Josh Stein joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 state and territory Attorneys General in demanding answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s business practices and […]
Release date: 1/3/2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $493.7 million multi-state settlement with for-profit education company Career Education Corp. (CEC). In a settlement with 49 states, including North Carolina, CEC has agreed to reform its recruiting and enrollment practices and forgo collection debts 179,529 students owe nationally. In North Carolina, 4,738 students […]
Release date: 10/4/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced the launch of a new statewide sexual assault kit tracking system that will mark all new sexual assault evidence collection kits with a tracking barcode. The tracking system will let anyone, including law enforcement, prosecutors, defense lawyers, or the victims themselves, know the real-time testing […]
Release date: 12/28/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Wells Fargo will pay $575 million to resolve claims that the bank violated state consumer protection laws. North Carolina’s share of the settlement is $15,174,791.40. To date, this settlement represents the most significant engagement by state attorneys general involving a national bank without a […]
Release date: 2/28/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein, along with State Crime Lab Director John Byrd, today announced the results of a statewide inventory of untested sexual assault evidence collection kits (SAECKs) in law enforcement custody across the state. Session Law 2017-57 required every law enforcement agency in North Carolina to report to the State […]
Release date: 12/21/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $68 million, 40-state settlement with UBS for fraudulent conduct involving the manipulation of LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate). LIBOR is a benchmark interest rate that affects financial instruments worth trillions of dollars and has a far-reaching impact on global markets and consumers. “UBS made millions as […]
Release date: 4/26/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein called on the Trump Administration to respect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) investigative authority. Since its inception, the CFPB has issued civil investigative demands to companies and individuals who may be violating the law and taking advantage of consumers. Civil investigative demands are a critical law enforcement […]
Release date: 12/4/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that North Carolina has reached a $6 million settlement with Encore Capital Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries Midland Credit Management, Inc. and Midland Funding LLC, one of the nation’s largest debt buyers. This settlement was reached with 41 other states and the District of Columbia. North […]