2008 Press Room

July

• New Record Set For Debt Collection in Fiscal Year 2008 -- 07/18/08
• Payday Lending Initiative Summaries Opinions -- 07/10/08
• Federal Jury Finds Racial Discrimination in Zanesville Water Case -- 07/10/08
• Ohio Assistant Attorneys General Tapped For Expertise -- 07/10/08
• Ohio Attorney General Files Lawsuit to Stop Violations at Garfield Heights Shopping Center -- 07/07/08
• Red, White and…GOLD? -- 07/03/08
• Money Wire Service Commits To Changing Its Business Practices To Stop Consumers From Losing Money To Fraudulent Telemarketers -- 07/02/08

June

• Discount Travel Service Sued For Fraud -- 06/30/08
• Ohio Attorney General Announces Anheuser-Busch Will Discontinue All Alcoholic Energy Drinks -- 06/26/08
• Ballot Issue On Payday Lending -- 06/19/08
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules Mentally Incompetent Defendants Have No Right To Represent Themselves -- 06/19/08
• Pool Installation Company Sued for Consumer Fraud -- 06/19/08
• Media Advisory -- 06/18/08
• Media Advisory -- 06/18/08
• Ohio Joins 17 States to Stop Tax Relief and Credit Repair Companies from Misleading Consumers in Ohio -- 06/12/08
• Used Car Dealer Sued for Failing to Deliver Titles -- 06/10/08
• Mortgage Payment Company Sued for Misleading Consumers -- 06/09/08
• Extended Deadline For Grant Applications to be Received -- 06/09/08
• DNA Evidence Leads to Arrest in Brutal 1982 Slaying and Rape of East Central Ohio Couple  -- 06/05/08
• Walgreens Settlement Is Final Of Three Multi-State Investigations Of Improper Billing Of Medicaid By Pharmacy Providers -- 06/04/08
• Ammo Dealer Not A Straight Shooter -- 06/04/08
• MEDIA ADVISORY - The following statement was released today to the staff at the Attorney General’s Office by Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers -- 06/03/08

May

• Gutter Company Sued for Deceptive Practices -- 05/29/08
• Six Ohio Non-Profits Awarded Grants to Help Homeowners -- 05/29/08
• ‘Operation Tele-PHONEY’ Telemarketing Fraud Sweep by More than 25 U.S. and Canadian Agencies -- 05/28/08
• Catering Company Shut Down and Ordered to Pay $17,864 in Consumer Restitution -- 05/27/08
• Pharmacy Benefits Management Company To Pay 28 States and D.C. $9.3 Million To Settle Consumer Protection Claims -- 05/27/08

For more information contact:

Jim Gravelle
Asst. Director of Communications
Email: JGravelle@ag.state.oh.us
Phone: (614) 466-3840