Pennsylvania State Executive - Attorney General
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Recent News About Pennsylvania State Executive - Attorney General
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Shapiro on CarMax settlement: 'This settlement will ensure dealerships like CarMax shift gears to ensure Pennsylvanians’ safety comes before profits'
Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that a $1 million multi-state settlement has been reached with CarMax Auto Superstores, with stipulations that the company needs to disclose open recalls to consumers.
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Shapiro on Coterra Energy criminal charges: 'This agreement brings justice to the residents of Dimock who for years had been ignored'
On November 29, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that Coterra Energy Inc. pleaded no contest to environmental crime charges in Northeastern Pennsylvania, which requires the company to pay $16.29 million to build a new public water supply in Susquehanna County.
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Shapiro charges former campaign consultant with 'wide scale' voter fraud
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has charged a former campaign consultant with “wide scale” forgery of voter ballots.
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Shapiro on Experian data breaches: 'These data breaches will keep happening until we force change in corporate behavior'
Last week Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that Pennsylvania, as well as a group of other AGs, has come to two multi-state settlements with Experian regarding data breaches that occurred in 2012 and 2015.
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Shapiro: 'These invasive robocalls are a growing problem'
State Attorney General Josh Shapiro revealed that a lawsuit was filed against the New York-based company Fluent.
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Shapiro on guilty verdict in murder case: 'We hope [it] brings justice to the Tuggy family and helps them heal'
State Attorney General Josh Shapiro revealed that justice was served nearly seven years after Jean Tuggy, 60, was shot and killed in her Pine Grove Mills home.
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President of CatholicVote on Shapiro's use of Catholic imagery in campaign letter: 'Catholics across Pennsylvania deserve an apology'
Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, recently said that Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro is exploiting Catholic voters for political reasons after Shapiro sent out a campaign letter using Catholic imagery.
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Shapiro: Fentanyl 'rapidly' replacing heroin as state's 'dominant opioid'
The opioid crisis continues across the country, including in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which has seen 5,400 overdose deaths between March 2021 and March 2022, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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State AG Shapiro on new ghost gun regulations: 'All this helps make Pennsylvania communities safer'
Federally licensed firearms dealers in Pennsylvania who sell partially completed frames or receivers (PCFRs) that can be used to make a homemade gun must now conduct background checks before selling or transferring parts.
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Mastriano: Biden's decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan last summer 'was the epitome of madness'
State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Chambersburg), Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, reflected on the Biden administration's withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan one year ago.
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AG Shapiro: 'Fentanyl has rapidly replaced heroin as the dominant opioid in Pennsylvania'
The powerful drug fentanyl continues to be a deadly problem in the U.S. and while there are a number of reasons for the rise in the smuggling of the drug, some are looking to the top and turning their heads to President Joe Biden’s border policy.
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AG Shapiro: 'Intuit aggressively marketed a TurboTax Free Edition that in reality was hardly ever free'
Attorney General Josh Shapiro recently announced that approximately 158,000 Pennsylvanians will receive restitution through a settlement with Intuit Inc., as they were deceived into paying for TurboTax products that were supposed to be free.
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Shapiro: Beware of scammers who 'try and frighten people' during tax season
Attorney General Josh Shapiro has issued a report warning residents of IRS scams as the April 18 tax day approaches.
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AG Shapiro: 'This kind of scam is not only despicable – it’s against the law'
Last week, Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued a warning to residents that there are fake fundraising calls going out that say they're benefiting the families of fallen State Police troopers Martin F. Mack and Branden T. Sisca, who were killed in the line of duty in Philadelphia on Interstate 95.
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AG Shapiro: Lancaster man's violation of Solid Waste Management act 'was against the law.'
Last week, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that the former owner of M&S Sanitation Sewage Disposal and Pike County Environmental was charged with violating the Solid Waste Management Act.
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AG Shapiro: "The law doesn’t allow businesses to hide the fine print so they can rip off Pennsylvania consumers.”
Attorney General Josh Shapiro has announced that he has continued his pursuit of retailers showing deceptive practices by entering into six settlements with Ashley HomeStore about “Hang Tag” violations.
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Court declines to block all of Pennsylvania Senate committee's subpoena of voter records
President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate Jake Corman (R-Centre) celebrated a Commonwealth Court ruling that he said permits a Senate committee to conduct a forensic audit of the 2020 general election and the 2021 primary to subpoena voter records.
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Pennsylvania attorney general draws criticism for changing positions on subpoenaing voter registration records
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who recently announced his candidacy for governor, has criticized Senate Republicans for voting to subpoena information from the state’s voter registration system but said nothing about a request by Auditor General’s Eugene DePasquale, a fellow Democrat, for the same information in 2019.
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Former U.S. Congressman running for governor: Shapiro would be 'disaster' as governor of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, has announced his candidacy for governor of the state, prompting former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Hazleton) to predict that Shapiro would be a "disaster" as governor.
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Shapiro issues lawsuit: 'Giving this data away would compromise the privacy of every Pennsylvania voter'
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has issued a lawsuit against Republican state lawmakers, attempting to stop a subpoena for detailed personal voter information in a partisan review of the 2020 election, according to a report by Reuters.