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 […]
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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 […]
Release date: 11/15/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has reached a settlement with Atrium Health as a result of the antitrust lawsuit the North Carolina Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice filed in 2016. “As a result of this settlement, people will be able to purchase lower cost, […]
Release date: 11/1/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the law and keep the Clean Power Plan, the first nationwide limits on climate change pollution from existing fossil-fueled power plants. In extensive comments filed with EPA, Attorney General Stein and his colleagues across […]
Release date: 10/23/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today led a coalition of 33 attorneys general calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Acting Director Mick Mulvaney to continue protecting military servicemembers against predatory lenders under the Military Lending Act (MLA). The attorneys general urge the CFPB to reconsider its reported decision to […]
Release date: 5/8/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that the Department of Justice has resolved a lawsuit against predatory auto title lenders in North Carolina. Liquidation, LLC made illegal loans to more than 700 North Carolinians under many names and charged interest rates of 161 percent to 571 percent, which far exceed legal […]