Release date: 1/8/2018 AG Stein also releases annual report of data breaches in NC in 2017 – up more than 15 percent since 2016 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine today unveiled legislation to strengthen North Carolina’s laws to prevent data breaches and to protect affected victims. “Last year, more than 5.3 […]
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Release date: 10/11/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has filed an amicus brief in support of students defrauded by Corinthian Colleges (Corinthian). The brief, filed in the Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, supports Corinthian students who had won an injunction against […]
Release date: 1/8/2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that The Neiman Marcus Group LLC has agreed to pay $1.5 million and implement a number of policies to resolve an investigation with 43 states and the District of Columbia into the 2013 breach of customer payment card data at 77 Neiman Marcus stores in […]
Release date: 3/26/2018 Bipartisan Group of 37 State Attorneys General Ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for Information on Facebook’s Business Practices and Privacy Protections (RALEIGH) Today, Attorney General Josh Stein joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 state and territory Attorneys General in demanding answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s business practices and […]
Release date: 1/3/2019 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $493.7 million multi-state settlement with for-profit education company Career Education Corp. (CEC). In a settlement with 49 states, including North Carolina, CEC has agreed to reform its recruiting and enrollment practices and forgo collection debts 179,529 students owe nationally. In North Carolina, 4,738 students […]
Release date: 10/4/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced the launch of a new statewide sexual assault kit tracking system that will mark all new sexual assault evidence collection kits with a tracking barcode. The tracking system will let anyone, including law enforcement, prosecutors, defense lawyers, or the victims themselves, know the real-time testing […]
Release date: 5/8/2017 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that the Department of Justice has resolved a lawsuit against predatory auto title lenders in North Carolina. Liquidation, LLC made illegal loans to more than 700 North Carolinians under many names and charged interest rates of 161 percent to 571 percent, which far exceed legal […]
Release date: 5/21/2018 Lawsuits center on kickbacks and illegal marketing practices to sell a powerful fentanyl painkiller (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein moved to hold drug manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, Inc., responsible for its deceptive marketing and sales practices by intervening in two lawsuits accusing Insys of violating the Fair Claims Act. The schemes were used […]
Release date: 4/27/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed comments opposing the Trump administration’s “unlawful and unsupported” proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan, the first nationwide emission limits on existing fossil fuel-burning power plants. “The Clean Power Plan makes us safer and healthier,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “Investing in clean energy creates […]
Release date: 1/13/2017 North Carolina joins USDOJ and 21 States in Settlement to Address Mortgage-Backed Securities (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that North Carolina will receive $16 million of a settlement of more than $863 million with Moody’s Corporation, Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and Moody’s Analytics, Inc. (Moody’s). North Carolina joined the U.S. […]