FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 3, 2026 Contact: nahmed@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 If you bought certain generic prescription drugs in the United States between May 1, 2009, and December 31, 2019, you could be eligible for money. RALEIGH — Attorney General Jeff Jackson reached two settlements totaling $17.85 million with Lannett Company, Inc. (“Lannett”) and Bausch Health […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 30, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Kathy Briggs, co-owner of Neveah & Company, operating as Restorative Medical, was sentenced to 24 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, which includes 13 months of home confinement, and ordered to pay $2,483,855.72 in […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 30, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that North Carolina’s price gouging law remains in effect ahead of this weekend’s winter weather under Governor Josh Stein’s state of emergency. North Carolinians can report price gouging to the Department of Justice at 1-877-5-NO-SCAM or www.ncdoj.gov/pricegouging. “As North Carolinians […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, January 27, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Bethany Medical Center, P.A., a medical group with several locations in North Carolina, and its founder, Lenin Peters, M.D. have paid $8,828,890 to resolve allegations that they violated the North Carolina and Federal False Claims Acts by knowingly […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 23, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson today led a bipartisan coalition of 35 attorneys general demanding that xAI stop its AI chatbot, Grok, from generating nonconsensual sexual images and remove any that remain. xAI owns both the Grok chatbot and the X social media platform, where […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 22, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that the North Carolina Department of Justice has won a major victory against MV Realty and its executives. The court granted NCDOJ’s motion for summary judgment, permanently barring MV Realty from enforcing key provisions of its 40-year “Homeowner Benefit […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 21, 2026 Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson is warning North Carolinians about a new wave of scam text messages falsely claiming to come from the North Carolina DMV and threatening license suspension, fines, and other penalties. The message claims the recipient has an unpaid traffic ticket and directs […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 15, 2025 Contact: nahmed@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson secured a fraud conviction against Francine Sims Super of Kinston, who pleaded guilty for her role in kickback schemes that defrauded the North Carolina Medicaid program out of more than $15 million. Super was sentenced to 72 months in […]
Roughly $4 Million a Day FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 15, 2025 Contact: nahmed@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH – In his first year in office, Attorney General Jeff Jackson has successfully protected more than $1.5 billion in North Carolina taxpayer dollars after federal agencies attempted to unlawfully withhold or cut funding owed to the state. That amount […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, January 13, 2026 Contact: nahmed@ncdoj.gov 919-538-2809 RALEIGH – Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that Ekelekamchukwu Alphonsus Ngwadom was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of 6-17 months, suspended for 36 months of supervised probation. As conditions of probation, he was ordered to 90 days of house arrest and ordered to pay […]