LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin has announced a lawsuit against Chinese e-commerce company Temu, citing violations of the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA) and the Arkansas Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). Griffin's statement characterized Temu as a data-theft business rather than a traditional online marketplace.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued a statement after securing a preliminary injunction halting President Biden’s latest attempt to cancel student loans without congressional authorization.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced today that he has filed a lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) Optum, Inc., and Express Scripts, Inc., along with their subsidiaries, for their alleged roles in contributing to the opioid epidemic in Arkansas. In his statement, Griffin said, "Pill by pill and dollar by dollar, PBMs enabled the opioid epidemic in Arkansas. Today, we begin the process of holding them accountable for their roles in a crisis that has ravaged our state—a crisis they helped cause, contributed to, and furthered."
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced today at the annual Missing Persons Event in Benton that his office will establish a new unit dedicated to investigating cold cases.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the arrest of Katrina Criswell, 47, and Lakeyia Alexander, 29, both Cotton Plant city employees, on charges of Theft of Property, classified as D Felonies.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the arrest of Kaylee Slaughter, 25, of Lepanto on one count of Medicaid fraud, a Class B Felony. In his statement, Griffin said: “Committing Medicaid fraud is an egregious affront to the hardworking taxpayers, but using a minor client as a vehicle to bilk Arkansans for thousands of dollars is despicable. I thank Special Agent Blake Hudson in my office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for his diligence to bring about this arrest. I am also grateful to the Poinsett County Sheriff’s Office for its assistance in bringing her to...
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin issued a statement today following a ruling in Polk County Circuit Court that allows parts of his lawsuit against the social media company Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, to proceed.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced today that Princess Dansby, 42, of Preston and Alissa Rivera, 27, of Arkadelphia have entered guilty pleas to charges of Abuse of an Endangered/Impaired Person. The pleas were secured by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on June 11.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced today that Arkansas will receive $12,716,700.92 as part of a nationwide $700 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson over its marketing of talc-based baby powder and body powder products.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the arrest of Nathan Michael Pruss, 40, of Romance, owner of Cabot-based Bruno’s Right Away, on one count of Theft of Property, a Class C Felony. The arrest is part of a Lonoke County investigation conducted by Griffin’s Public Integrity Unit.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced today that Choices Women’s Medical Center in Queens, New York, has complied with a cease and desist demand by removing unlawful language from its website. The directive was issued to address the center's promotion of abortion pill services to Arkansans.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin announced today that Mary Rhodes, 71, of Little Rock and Najee Rhodes, 28, of Maumelle have entered guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges of Medicaid fraud. The announcement follows the negotiated guilty pleas secured by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on May 28.
On May 31, 2024, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued a statement alerting consumers in Arkansas to a new texting scam that has recently emerged. The scam, known as "smishing"—a combination of 'SMS' (texts) and 'phishing'—involves scammers attempting to steal personal information and trick individuals into sending money by impersonating a state toll service.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin issued a statement regarding the unanimous decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court to dismiss Reynolds v. Thurston, a suit seeking to bypass state laws on ballot title submissions and place constitutional amendments on paper ballots and absentee voting directly on the ballot.
Attorney General Tim Griffin has filed a motion for reconsideration in a lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) new rule expanding the definition of who must become a federally licensed firearms dealer. Griffin issued a statement on May 29, 2024, explaining his actions.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued a statement regarding the involvement of his office in the arrest of Marcus Allen Abeyta, 31, of Emporia, Kansas. Abeyta faces one federal count of production of child pornography involving a minor residing in Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin issued a statement today alerting Arkansans of post-storm rebuilding scams and informing businesses that the prohibitions on price gouging in Act 367 of 1997 are now in effect. This follows Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s declaration of a state of emergency in Executive Order 24-07, issued on May 26.
