Release date: 2/20/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today opposed the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) application to regain its status as a nationally-recognized accreditor. Attorney General Stein noted ACICS’ “extreme and far-reaching oversight failures” and the serious harm it caused students and taxpayers across the country by enabling fraud and abuse […]

Release date: 2/19/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to provide his office with information related to election security and possible tampering in North Carolina. “In our democracy, the right to vote, to have one’s vote be counted accurately, and to have one’s vote mean something is […]

Release date: 2/15/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today sent civil investigative demands (CIDs) to Atrium, formerly known as Carolinas Healthcare System, and UNC Health Care. Attorney General Stein is requesting information about the proposed combination of these entities and its impacts on health care prices, choices for patients and insurers, and other information that […]

Release date: 2/12/2018 Victims of Sexual Harassment Should Have Right to their Day in Court (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi today led a sweeping bipartisan coalition of 56 attorneys general to urge U.S. House of Representatives and Senate leaders to enact legislation that protects victims of sexual harassment in […]

Release date: 2/8/2018 Deadline to file a claim is May 31, 2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein is encouraging North Carolinians who were deceived into sending payments to scammers using Western Union’s wire transfer service to apply for compensation soon. The payout comes from a fund related to a multi-state settlement Attorney General Stein and […]

Release date: 2/5/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today wrote to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta in opposition to his proposal to rescind a rule that allows employees to keep the tips they have earned. The rule, issued in 2011, clarified that, consistent with long-established cultural and legal understanding, gratuities are the sole […]

Release date: 2/1/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to terminate his plan to allow offshore drilling off the coast of North Carolina. “Thousands of North Carolinians and 30 coastal communities have voiced their opposition to drilling off North Carolina’s shores,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “I will […]

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: 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 […]

Attorney General Josh Stein Announces $325,000 Settlement over Medicaid Fraud Release date: 6/1/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that the State of North Carolina has agreed to settle allegations against Atlanticare Home Care Agency involving the submission of fraudulent claims to the North Carolina Medicaid program. According to the allegations, Atlanticare, a Greenville […]