FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, March 23, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson led a bipartisan group of attorneys general today asking the president and the federal government to take action to address the issue of drug traffickers using messaging apps like WeChat and its Chinese-based sister app, Weixin, to facilitate fentanyl […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 20, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 USDOJ reportedly dropped its investigation, FCC waived its rules, and Nexstar closed the deal within 24 hours of the lawsuit being filed; AG now asks court to freeze merger to give court time to hear case RALEIGH — Attorney General Jeff Jackson has filed an […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 20, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 EPA’s own data shows the rollback will raise fuel prices and cost consumers $1.5 trillion RALEIGH — Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general in challenging an EPA rollback that the agency’s own analysis shows will raise fuel costs and cost […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 19, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 North Carolina Among Most Affected States in the Country Deal would put over 260 TV stations under one roof – including WCNC and Queen City News in Charlotte, WFMY and WGHP in the Triad – raising cable and satellite bills and gutting local newsrooms across […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, March 16, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH — Attorney General Jeff Jackson and 16 other attorneys general argued to keep federal protections designed to replace lead pipes and prevent lead from leaching into drinking water. “We should all be able to agree on getting lead out of our children’s drinking water,” said Attorney […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 11, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH – Fentanyl kills about six North Carolinians a day and over 100 Americans a day. Billions of dollars in drug proceeds are laundered each year through an underground banking network that relies heavily on the messaging platform WeChat. Until now, the company has done […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 11, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 Attorney General Jeff Jackson secured an agreement to restore $2.5 million in federal education funds for the remainder of this school year benefitting North Carolina public schools through the Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program. “This is a good outcome for our students—but not the final […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, March 9, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with Live Nation in its ongoing antitrust case. USDOJ and 40 Republican and Democratic attorneys general began their trial over Live Nation’s illegal entertainment monopoly last […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 6, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH – Today, a judge granted Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s motion to force FEMA to reinstate its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) disaster mitigation program. “FEMA tried to cancel $200 million for North Carolina,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “We took them to court, we won, and […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 6, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH — Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced the sentencing of the final of five defendants involved in a scheme that defrauded the North Carolina Medicaid program of over $12.7 million. In total, the defendants must repay over $2.5 million to the IRS and over $15 million to Medicaid. On March 2, 2026, […]