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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced today that the Consumer Protection Division has filed charges against Heather Hill Property Company LLC; Heather Hill Operating Company LLC; OneWall Communities LLC; Andy Wallace (CEO); and Ron Kutas (COO), for violations of the Consumer Protection Act and the Consumer Debt Collection Act, in their operation of a multi-family rental housing community known as Heather Hill by OneWall, a 459-unit multi-family rental housing community in Temple Hills in Prince George’s County.
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The Office of the Attorney General has received multiple reports of racist text messages, sent to Black Marylanders from an unknown sender or senders.
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Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown reassured residents that their rights and freedoms will remain steadfastly protected.
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e Office of the Attorney General (OAG) received a response from the Center for Voter Information/Voter Participation Center (CVI/VPC) to a cease-and-desist letter that the OAG issued on October 31, 2024, ordering the organization to immediately stop sending letters to Maryland voters in which the letters were stating that the voters’ records would be reviewed after the election to determine whether or not the voter had joined their neighbors in voting.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced two significant settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex totaling $49.1 million.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that Shanell Angelia West, 46, of Essex, Maryland, has pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in separate cases involving insurance fraud and felony theft.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced his decision to not seek charges in the January 30, 2024 fatal police-involved shooting in New Carrollton, Maryland.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has announced that the Circuit Court for Baltimore County has awarded the State of Maryland $425,940.54 in damages against Komfort & Kare LLC, its former owner and manager LaShera White, its former alternate manager and administrator LaSharn Angelita Brown, and related entities for submitting fraudulent claims to the state’s Medicaid program.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in opposing needless barriers to mifepristone access imposed by the state of North Carolina.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that four people have been charged after a long-term investigation in northern Baltimore City. Charges in the indictments include illegal possession of firearms; illegal sale of firearms; possession of large quantities of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines; and distribution of fentanyl and cocaine. The investigation was led by the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that Jose Walter Marquez Rivera, 43, of Beltsville, Maryland, was sentenced in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County on one count of theft scheme having a value of $100,000 or more.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown’s Securities Division announced that the office has reached a settlement with True Bullion LLC DBA Gold Silver International Exchange DBA GSI Exchange LLC (“GSI Exchange”) and its Senior Partner, Anthony Allen Anderson.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that Michael K. Hines pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Frederick County to one count of hunting mammals during closed season.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced his decision not to seek charges in the January 9, 2024 fatal police-involved shooting of Sha-Kim Webley in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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Attorney General Anthony Brown tday issued the following statement on appointing Adileh Sharieff to the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced the sentencing of Brittney Georgette Payne, 33, of Baltimore, Maryland, relating to the theft of a debit card from a resident of Keswick Multi-Care Center, a nursing home located at 700 W. 40th Street in Baltimore.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open a civil rights investigation into the recent raids by the Texas attorney general’s office that targeted Latino voting rights organizers, candidates for office, and volunteers, allegedly to investigate claims that they were registering noncitizens to vote.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced a conviction in a case of abuse of a vulnerable adult. On August 28, 2024, following a bench trial, Kehinde Oluwatobi Ososanya, 38, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was found guilty of Second-Degree Abuse of a Vulnerable Adult and Second-Degree Assault by Washington County Circuit Court Judge Viki M. Pauler.
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The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General is investigating a fatal collision that occurred in North Laurel, Howard County, Maryland, on Saturday, August 10, 2024.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today announced the sentencing of former dentist Seyed Hamid Tofigh, 57, of Potomac, Maryland, after The Honorable Carol Ann Corderre of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County found Tofigh to have violated the terms of his probation from a home-detention sentence imposed in February of this year.
