For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to adopt national protections against impersonation scams, also known as imposter scams. Americans reported more than $2.3 billion in losses caused by imposter scams to the FTC in 2021. “Scammers […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, January 11, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would allow people to file workplace sexual assault and harassment lawsuits instead of being forced into arbitration. The House of Representatives passed the […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, February 10, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and Sen. Jim Burgin (R-12) today held a roundtable at Central Carolina Community College in Sanford to discuss the recent wave of health care consolidation in North Carolina and how it affects North Carolinians’ health care costs, quality, […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced two civil health care settlements through his office’s Medicaid Investigations Division (MID) that will refund nearly $1.5 million to the North Carolina Medicaid Program. “When health care providers defraud the Medicaid program, they take away taxpayer […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, January 28, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (Raleigh) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the North Carolina Department of Justice’s 2021 data breach report recapping a record 2,009 data breaches affecting more than 2.4 million North Carolinians. “2021 saw a record number of data breaches reported to my office,” said Attorney […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, January 27, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today marked a key milestone in bringing billions of dollars in much-needed resources to communities across the country via the $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – and […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 Stein initiates pathbreaking lawsuit against phone company (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today sued telephone service provider Articul8 and its owner Paul K. Talbot of Texas for allegedly violating the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) and facilitating illegal and fraudulent telemarketing calls and robocalls […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, January 21, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 NCDOJ Has Won More Than $1 Million in Price Gouging Cases (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced three price gouging settlements totaling more than $80,000 in restitution for North Carolinians who were forced to pay egregious prices during states of emergency. Since […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today shared the top 10 consumer complaints North Carolinians filed with the North Carolina Department of Justice in 2021 in the department’s 2021 annual report. The report also covers the breadth of the department’s work last year to protect […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, January 14, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today appealed a district court’s decision to dismiss his lawsuit against Facebook, now known as Meta. Attorney General Stein is part of the Facebook executive committee, and his lawsuit alleged that the company used its monopoly power to buy competitors and […]