Announcements, information & updates from
the Attorney General Alliance Members and Associates
August 11, 2023.
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AGA CHAIRMAN'S INITIATIVE |
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Thank you to all who joined us this week and helped make it a success! |
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South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley released the Crime in South Dakota 2022 Report.
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced his office "obtained a guilty plea and 16-year prison sentence in its prosecution of a Chicago man who sold cocaine to an undercover police officer, and attempted to purchase two firearms and a submachine gun." |
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his Cold Case Unit "assisted the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney in obtaining a second-degree murder conviction in connection to the long-unsolved death of Karla Delcour in 1987." |
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Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced appointments to the newly formed Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention. The Commission is composed of 20 stakeholders from a cross-section of law enforcement, state and local institutions, and organizations representing communities targeted by hate crimes. |
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that "investors who purchased precious metals from gold and silver seller Lear Capital will receive compensation as a part of Lear’s bankruptcy plan. At least forty-two State and Territory securities regulators had been investigating Lear for deceptive securities and commodities activities and misleading marketing at the time of the company’s bankruptcy." |
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced major developments, issued by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, in her office's lawsuit against a home improvement contractor. |
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the conviction of Former Akron Town Clerk Diann Taylor on felony ethics and theft charges. Taylor "pled guilty to allegations in an indictment charging her with using her office or official position for her own personal gain and first degree theft. Taylor was ordered to pay $110,908.60 in restitution." |
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New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announce that the former owner of Dusty Old Cars "pleaded guilty and has been sentenced in the Rockingham County Superior Court to two class A felony counts of Theft By Unauthorized Taking (TBUT) and one class A felony count of Theft By Deception (TBD) as part of a fully negotiated plea agreement." |
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that his office "won a court ruling late last week ordering an Aurora-based company, PropDoks, and its owner, Erdis Moore, III, to temporarily halt operations at its Denver storefront after an investigation found the company engaged in fraudulent and deceptive trade practices." |
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The Texas Office of the Attorney General’s Civil Medicaid Fraud Division settled an enforcement action brought under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act against several pharmaceutical drug manufacturers. Under the agreement, the drug manufacturers will pay more than $42 million to settle the claims against the companies. |
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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced that a medical lab and and its owner "have agreed to pay $1,951,090 to resolve allegations that they violated the law by billing the North Carolina Medicaid program for unnecessary urine drug tests and paying illegal kickbacks for these tests." |
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey urged college students to be cautious as another school year begins and sensitive information is shared. |
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Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark warned Vermonters that the grandparent scam is on the rise -- and scammers are utilizing new, sophisticated tactics. As typical of this scam, callers claim to be grandchildren in an emergency situation, such as in a car accident, in prison, or at the hospital, and need money to resolve the problem. |
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced a new initiative to help students build positive relationships with school resource officers. "The Hallway Heroes initiative will provide schools with crime-prevention resources to foster relationships with school resource officers and urge students to report suspicious activity." |
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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell launched a new website, “HEALTH at HOME”, which provides Massachusetts tenants, landlords and homeowners "a centralized location of information about home environmental health hazards such as lead, asbestos, unsafe drinking water, noise and more. To empower residents to seek help, the website includes resources that can be used to report violations to the Attorney General’s Office and legal aid organizations that may be able to assist with or directly provide legal representation." |
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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, along with Human Services Department Cabinet Secretary Kari Armijo, announced a new public awareness campaign, Don’t Be Taken For a Ride. "This campaign provides an avenue with the 988 crisis lifeline to report suspicious activity surrounding the behavioral health treatment scam that has been affecting our most vulnerable, unsheltered populations throughout New Mexico.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced “a serial offender who evaded law enforcement for three decades has been sentenced to life in prison and finally brought to justice, “ |
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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha announced "the filing of objections with the Office of Health Insurance Commissioner (OHIC) in response to requests to increase health insurance rates in 2024 filed by multiple health insurers." |
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti co-led a bipartisan coalition of 44 attorneys general in issuing a letter to congressional leaders “expressing support for the passage of legislative proposals included in Governing Unaccredited Representatives Defrauding (G.U.A.R.D.) Veterans Affairs (VA) Benefits Act.” |
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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced that the office’s Human Trafficking and Gang Prosecution Units have secured the conviction of three individuals for their involvement in criminal gang activity and human trafficking. |
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Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced the sentencing of a Clarksdale man who was investigated and prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office for human trafficking of a minor. |
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Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes announced that his office's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force supported "law enforcement’s National Night Out Against Crime, an annual event to strengthen community relationships and boost crime prevention awareness." |
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New York Attorney General Letitia James announced "the convictions of six members of a crew responsible for over 200 burglaries of car dealerships, cellular phone stores, and ATM businesses located in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and on Long Island." |
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the "shutdown of a retail-theft crime ring by the Florida Organized Retail Crime Exchange Taskforce. A Pinellas County pastor, Robert Dell, is facing charges for operating a multimillion-dollar theft ring stealing from The Home Depot." |
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the sentencing of an individual who "pled guilty to Organized Retail Fraud, False Pretenses up to $1,000 and less than $20,000, and Identity Theft." |
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY |
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry led a 16-state comment letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency regarding Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution: Request for Public Comment; 88 Fed. Reg. 27,502 (May 2, 2023); Docket No. EPA-HQ-OLEM-
2023-0228.
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey led a 21-state comment letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency regarding New Source Performance Standards for GHG Emissions from New and Reconstructed EGUs; Emission Guidelines for GHG Emissions from Existing EGUs; and Repeal of the Affordable Clean Energy Rule”(Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072).
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency “for failing to timely fulfill the request by Iowa and Nebraska Governors to allow the sale of year-round E15 gasoline.” |
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led a 16-state letter to U.S. Congressional leadership “urging the passage of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (“EATS”) Act.” |
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson filed suit against several companies "to hold them accountable for knowingly contaminating South Carolina’s natural resources and drinking water through toxic 'forever chemicals' known as PFAS." |
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessell issued a press release saying "Michigan Lawyers Weekly announced the 2023 class of ‘Influential Women of Law’, featuring Michigan’s Chief Deputy Attorney General Fadwa Hammoud among the honorees. The award 'honors women attorneys and judges for their excellent work on behalf of the justice system and for their clients, their commitment to their communities and their service to the profession,' per the publication." |
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