For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 4, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that 150,074 North Carolinians who were tricked into paying for free tax services by TurboTax will begin receiving checks from TurboTax’s owner, Intuit. The payments are the result of a $141 million multistate settlement that Attorney General […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 1, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today proposed a comprehensive package to make North Carolina communities safer. The package includes measures to combat drugs, support law enforcement officers, protect kids, test sexual assault kits, improve public safety, and fight fraud. “Protecting the people of this […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 28, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement on the North Carolina Supreme Court’s opinion in its rehearing of Harper v. Hall: “The Court’s ruling in Harper v. Hall today is a devastating blow to democracy. Our constitution is supposed to be […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 28, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced that a Guilford County Superior Court jury found Austin Alvy Jackson guilty of first degree murder and robbery with a firearm for the death of Desirae Aimee Hall in November 2019. Judge Vance Brad Long sentenced Jackson to […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 24, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Robert Adam Burns pleaded guilty in New Hanover County to four counts of statutory sex offenses with a 13-,14-, or 15-year-old and four counts of indecent liberties with a child and was sentenced to 16-20 years […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 24, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today proposed several strategies to recruit and retain law enforcement officers. North Carolina is experiencing a shortage of officers in many communities. “Law enforcement officers keep our families and communities safe, and we are less safe when there are […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 21, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein supported the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) proposed rule to strengthen critical fair housing protections. The proposal will implement the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule by promoting residential integration and increasing protections against unlawful discriminatory […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 State Crime Lab Opens Expanded Drug Chemistry and Toxicology **Video and pictures from today’s event are available here for media use (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today continued leading state efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis by opening the renovated Drug Chemistry and […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 17, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a bipartisan antitrust lawsuit against Google alleging that the company harmed consumers by creating a 15-year monopoly in digital advertising technology. By stifling competition through anticompetitive and exclusionary conduct, Google is limiting people’s access to ideas, information, […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 14, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to maintain approval for and access to the medication abortion drug mifepristone while a lower court case is appealed. If the Supreme Court doesn’t take this […]