Attorney General Chris Carr
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Attorney General Chris Carr announced the conviction of Anthony Charles Holmes, 33, from Cleveland, Ohio, for human trafficking after transporting a 16-year-old girl from South Carolina to Atlanta for commercial sex acts. The victim was found on August 2, 2023, following a traffic stop by the Greene County Sheriff's Office. A Greene County jury found Holmes guilty on October 21, 2024, after a five-day trial. Charges included Trafficking of Persons for Sexual Servitude and Trafficking in Cocaine. Sentencing is scheduled for November 13, 2024.
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Attorney General Chris Carr announced the conviction and sentencing of Anthony Brown, Glendarius Tate, and X’Zydric Faust for their roles in the fatal shooting of Ja’Vanni McDavid on March 5, 2023, in Athens, Georgia. The three individuals are members of Everybody Killa (EBK), a criminal street gang based in Athens.
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Roderick Branscomb, a former program director at a methadone treatment clinic in LaGrange, Georgia, has been indicted on multiple charges of sexual misconduct. Attorney General Chris Carr announced the indictment, which includes counts of Improper Sexual Contact by an Employee in the First and Second Degrees and Sexual Battery. Branscomb allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with seven female patients between April 2021 and November 2023.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has joined a bipartisan group of 22 attorneys general to urge a Tennessee court to enforce its orders requiring TikTok to preserve and produce evidence in an ongoing investigation. This multistate probe, initiated in 2022, aims to determine if TikTok is violating state consumer protection laws and impacting the mental health of children and teens.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has issued a warning to Georgians to remain vigilant against home repair fraud, charity fraud, imposter scams, and price gouging as the state recovers from Hurricane Helene.
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ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr is alerting Georgians to be vigilant against potential storm-related scams as Hurricane Helene approaches.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit under the Anti-Terrorism Act by survivors of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack and families of those killed by Hamas. The lawsuit aims to hold AJP Educational Foundation, Inc., also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), and the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) accountable for allegedly providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. AMP and NSJP have requested that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia dismiss the...
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ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced that Averil Johnson, 45, of Lawrenceville, has been indicted in DeKalb County on 10 counts of felony Medicaid Fraud and two counts of felony Identity Fraud. As the owner of National Healthcare Center, LLC, Johnson is alleged to have submitted fraudulent claims for genetic testing services his company did not provide and to have retained payments for those claims.
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Attorney General Chris Carr announced that five members of RNBA, a hybrid criminal street gang based in Boston, Georgia, have been convicted and sentenced to prison for their involvement in an April 3, 2022 shooting at the Green Food Market in Thomasville. The incident, linked to an ongoing conflict between RNBA and "Realer Than Most" (RTM), resulted in non-fatal injuries to a pregnant woman and another civilian. One defendant was also injured.
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ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that Ugochinyere Anazodo, 46, of Gwinnett County, Georgia, and Dominique Beaulieu, 45, of Windermere, Florida, have been convicted and sentenced to prison for their roles in multiple cyber fraud schemes. These schemes targeted small businesses, government entities, and private citizens, resulting in significant financial losses through scams such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), romance and confidence fraud, inheritance scams, and identity theft.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has filed an amicus brief supporting a Tennessee-led lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration's revised Title IX rule, which mandates that males and females share bathrooms and redefines "sex" to include "gender identity" and "sexual orientation."
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Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that Hall County Solicitor General Stephanie Woodard has entered a guilty plea for unlawfully acquiring funds from Hall County and the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia (PAC) to cover personal expenses. These include unauthorized travel expenditures and the misuse of Local Victim Assistance Programs (LVAP) funds.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has announced the appointment of former Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Timothy Ruffini to lead Georgia’s first statewide Organized Retail Crime Unit. Ruffini will manage a team of prosecutors and investigators dedicated to addressing criminal networks involved in recurring thefts and acts of violence targeting businesses across the state. This new unit is part of the Attorney General’s Prosecution Division, which also includes units focused on gang prosecution, human trafficking, and white-collar and cybercrime.
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Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that Farid Moghaddam, 48, of Atlanta, has been indicted in Forsyth County on four counts of felony Medicaid Fraud and 11 counts of felony False Writings. Moghaddam, the owner and sole provider for North Cumming Dentistry, LLC, is alleged to have submitted fraudulent claims for services he did not provide and retained payments for those claims.
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Attorney General Chris Carr is warning Georgians to be vigilant against potential price gouging and home repair fraud following Tropical Storm Debby. Consumers are also advised to be cautious when purchasing used vehicles that may have sustained storm damage.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has won an appeal allowing his office to proceed with its civil case against the New Georgia Project for suspected violations of state campaign finance laws. The New Georgia Project had previously sued to block the State’s proceedings. Carr filed an appeal in March 2023, and the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion in favor of the Attorney General’s Office on July 8, 2024.
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ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced that Denorris Hutchinson, 36, of East Point, has been convicted and sentenced to prison for trafficking two females, ages 15 and 17, in Fulton County. The 17-year-old, who had been reported missing from Kansas City, Missouri, was recovered from a hotel in Fulton County as part of a multi-agency operation conducted in 2020.
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Attorney General Chris Carr announced the expansion of his Gang Prosecution Unit to Southeast Georgia. Assistant Attorney General Brooklyn Franklin and Criminal Investigator Pete Delatorre will oversee the unit's regional efforts, effective July 1, 2024. The expansion is funded by the state’s FY 2025 budget, signed by Governor Brian Kemp in May.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has expressed approval of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine. Carr, who previously submitted an amicus brief in the case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, had urged the Court to overrule the Chevron doctrine.
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Attorney General Chris Carr, joined by Senate President Pro Tempore John F. Kennedy and Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Director Chris Hosey, announced the expansion of the Attorney General’s Gang Prosecution Unit to Macon-Bibb County. The announcement included the hiring of veteran prosecutor Ashton Jordan and seasoned investigator Nathan Shoate. Both will oversee the unit's regional efforts starting July 1, 2024, funded by the state’s FY 2025 budget signed by Governor Brian Kemp in May 2024.
