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Release date: 2/6/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced new hires as he continues to fill recent vacancies to build his staff. Biographical information about each person is below. “It is energizing to continue to build out my team and bring public-spirited, smart people on board,” said AG Stein. “These latest hires are talented, […]

Release date: 1/29/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today made the following statement on President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration: “America is a nation of immigrants. Throughout our history, we have welcomed people from foreign lands who seek a better life and in the process enrich the quality of ours. While some Americans were […]

Release date: 1/18/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced members of his senior leadership team. Biographical information about each staff member is below. “Pulling this team together has been one of my most important early tasks as Attorney General,” said AG Stein. “I am excited by their talent, energy and commitment to serving the […]

Release date: 11/9/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that his office has entered a final multistate settlement agreement that resolves a decade-old payment dispute under the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, the historic agreement with the tobacco industry. “It is critical that we resolve this dispute completely,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “This […]

Release date: 10/31/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein moved to expand his existing antitrust investigation of the generic drug industry to include an additional 12 pharmaceutical company defendants. This new filing will increase the number of generic drug manufacturer defendants from six to 18 in the case and the number of drugs at issue in […]

Release date: 10/24/2017 (RALEIGH, NC) – Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has taken retailer eRummagers to court to stop the company’s alleged unlawful conduct including deceptive business practices. The North Carolina Department of Justice brought the suit against eRummagers after receiving consumer complaints of unfair and dishonest conduct. Attorney General Stein won […]

Release date: 7/5/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that North Carolina has settled with Rotech Healthcare Inc., a Florida-based respiratory equipment supplier, over civil allegations that Rotech knowingly submitted false claims for portable oxygen contents to Medicaid and Medicare. The settlement is joined by 22 other states and the federal government. The total […]

Release date: 1/5/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today stood in strong opposition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to allow more high polluting trucks on the roads by repealing protections on “glider trucks.” In 2016, the EPA required that gliders – new heavy duty truck bodies without engines or drive trains – […]

For Immediate Release: Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 North Carolina Joins FTC and Eight States to Resolve Robocall Case (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that North Carolina successfully settled charges against a company that assisted the cruise line in making unwanted robocalls. The Florida-based cruise line company flooded consumers with billions of unwanted robocalls […]

Release date: 6/12/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that Dr. Duke Ellington Ellis, II was sentenced today in federal district court in the Middle District of North Carolina for health care fraud and false medical entries. Ellis was paid to help Nature’s Reflections, LLC, a North Carolina company based in Durham, submit fraudulent […]