For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 2, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced that North Carolina’s local governments began receiving the first payments this week from the $26 billion national opioid agreement with the nation’s three major drug distributors (Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen) and Johnson & Johnson. The state has […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Healthkeeperz, Inc., a Pembroke behavioral health care provider, will pay $2.1 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by billing claims that were not reimbursable to Medicaid programs. “When health […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 26, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein won a permanent ban prohibiting Michael Grinnell of California and his businesses, Amstar Services and Home Relief Services, from offering debt relief, debt settlement, foreclosure assistance, and mortgage loan modification services to North Carolinians. “This defendant took advantage […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 North Carolina will receive more than $380,000 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that North Carolina will receive $380,952.61 as part of a $19.2 million multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company over claims that Ford falsely advertised the real-world fuel economy of […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 23, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein is pleased to announce that he has named fellowship opportunities in the Attorney General’s office the Walter E. Dellinger III Memorial Fellowship Program. The program will host two fellows at the North Carolina Department of Justice – one […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, May 20, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today praised the Federal Communications Commission for adopting new rules to prevent illegal robocalls that originated overseas from coming into the U.S. phone network. Attorney General Stein, along with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose stronger protections against heavy-duty truck emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and other pollutants. NOx is a smog-forming pollutant that worsens asthma and other health problems. “Strengthening protections against dangerous […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein won a temporary restraining order against Burlington business Hits Tax & Bookkeeping Services (Hits), its owner Marvin Todd Hooker, and two other employees for allegedly unlawfully deceiving North Carolinians who were trying to apply for COVID-19-related financial and housing […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 16, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today won a judgment permanently banning Jason Dudley and his company, Jason’s Mobile Outboard Repair, from performing boat repair or related services or advertising or accepting payment for those services in North Carolina. “You cannot take money from people […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 16, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today joined a bipartisan nationwide coalition of attorneys general in filing a friend-of-the-court brief defending affordable drug prices in two cases. “No North Carolinian should be denied the medications they need to stay healthy because drug prices are too […]