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  • AG Slatery Urges Federal Trade Commission to Stop Impersonation Scams

    Wednesday, February 23, 2022 | 01:58pm

    Nashville- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, along with Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania, is leading a bipartisan coalition of 49 attorneys general calling on the Federal Trade Commission to adopt a national rule to target impersonation scams.

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  • TN Attorney General, Commerce & Insurance Join CFTC to Stop $68 Million Precious Metals Scheme

    Wednesday, February 02, 2022 | 10:28am

    Nashville- The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) are participating in a consolidated enforcement action to stop a fraudulent precious metals scheme that resulted in solicitations exceeding $68 million from at least 450 investors nationwide.

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  • Attorney General Slatery: Important Progress on $26 Billion Opioid Agreement

    Thursday, January 27, 2022 | 11:04am

    Nashville- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III today marked a key milestone in the $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – and Johnson & Johnson over the companies’ role in creating and fueling the nationwide opioid crisis. Following the 52 states and territories signing on to the agreement since July, thousands of local governments have joined during the subdivision sign-on period. In Tennessee, more than 150 local governments have joined the settlements, including every county and all cities with populations of 25,000 or more.

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  • Attorney General Slatery Announces $1.8 Billion Settlement with Student Loan Servicer Navient

    Thursday, January 13, 2022 | 01:24pm

    Nashville-Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced today that Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, will provide relief totaling $1.85 billion to resolve allegations of deceptive practices in originating predatory student loans.

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  • Jury Finds Texas Law Firm Unlawfully Solicited Families of Deadly Chattanooga School Bus Crash

    Wednesday, December 15, 2021 | 12:58pm

    Nashville- A Chattanooga jury unanimously found a Texas law firm, its owner, and agents liable for consumer protection violations and the unauthorized practice of law arising out of their actions in soliciting families of the fatal 2016 school bus crash in Chattanooga.

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  • Attorney General Slatery Named Nation’s Top Attorney General

    Wednesday, December 08, 2021 | 08:32am

    Nashville- The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), the nonpartisan national forum for America’s state and territory attorneys general, presented Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III with the Kelley-Wyman Award Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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  • Holiday Scam Warning from the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office

    Monday, December 06, 2021 | 02:05pm

    Nashville- The Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is urging consumers to beware of scammers looking to steal money and personal information over the holidays.

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  • AG Slatery Leads Nationwide Investigation Into Instagram’s Impact on Young People

    Thursday, November 18, 2021 | 01:19pm

    Nashville-Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is leading a nationwide investigation into Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, for providing and promoting its social media platform – Instagram – to children and young adults despite knowing that such use is associated with mental health harms. Attorneys General across the country are examining whether the company violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at risk.

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  • Attorneys General Support Congressional Hearings Addressing Youth Social Media Use

    Tuesday, October 05, 2021 | 02:28pm

    Nashville- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is leading a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys general expressing strong support for hearings conducted by the U.S. Senate Committee addressing protection and safety of kids and teens using social media.

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  • Consumer Alert: Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme

    Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | 02:11pm

    Nashville- The Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) within the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General is fielding complaints about recruitment schemes offered by various Bitcoin websites.

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  • AG Slatery Leads Coalition Applauding Federal Legislation to Modernize Antitrust Enforcement and Protect Consumers

    Monday, September 20, 2021 | 02:25pm

    Nashville- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is leading a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 30 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam today applauding legislative proposals to modernize federal antitrust laws.

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  • Consumer Alert: Flooded Vehicles on the Used Car Market

    Monday, September 20, 2021 | 01:07pm

    The Division of Consumer Affairs in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is warning consumers about flood damaged vehicles that may appear in used car markets following Hurricane Ida.

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  • Tennessee Attorney General’s Office Warns Against Fraudulent Text Messages

    Thursday, August 19, 2021 | 12:41pm

    Nashville- The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is investigating reports of a Government Grant Scam targeting Tennesseans by text message.

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  • AG Slatery Co-Leads Bipartisan Coalition Calling on FDA to Regulate E-Cigarettes and Oral Nicotine Products

    Thursday, August 19, 2021 | 11:14am

    Nashville – Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is co-leading a group of thirty-one states, U.S. territories, and jurisdictions urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt the surge of youth nicotine addiction. Specifically, the bipartisan coalition is calling on the FDA to use its regulatory power to eliminate youth-appealing flavors, limit nicotine levels in e-cigarette and oral nicotine products such as pouches, gum, and lozenges, and restrict marketing for these products. The FDA is responsible for deciding whether to allow the products to stay on the market through the Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs) filed for each product, and these proposed measures would deny approval for any product that would worsen America’s youth nicotine epidemic.

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  • AG Slatery Calls for Faster Implementation of Anti-Robocall Technology

    Tuesday, August 10, 2021 | 10:14am

    Nashville-Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight back against illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology.

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