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Former Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company Pleads Guilty
A former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm based in New York, N.Y., that last month agreed to pay $650 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations into the firm’s consulting work with opioids manufacturers, including Purdue Pharma, L.P., pled guilty today to obstructing justice related to his work on Purdue matters. -
Attorney General Miyares Announces Legislative Agenda for 2025 General Assembly Session
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced his legislative priorities and goals for the 2025 General Assembly session. -
Attorney General Miyares Secures Major Victory Safeguarding Virginia Youth from Harmful THC Products
Attorney General Jason Miyares has announced a major victory for child safety and public health as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision denying a preliminary injunction that would have prohibited Virginia’s ability to regulate hemp-derived products with intoxicating tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels. -
Virginia Awarded $1.29M to Improve Outcomes for Youth Victims of Human Trafficking
In recognition of Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has announced a $1.29 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime to enhance the Commonwealth’s efforts to combat child and youth labor and sex trafficking. -
Attorney General Miyares Urges SCOTUS to Uphold Divest-Or-Ban Law Against TikTok
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court supporting a federal statute addressing the national security and data privacy threats posed by TikTok. -
Attorney General Miyares Celebrates Victory for Women’s Sports as Biden Administration Withdraws Proposed Rule
Attorney General Jason Miyares celebrated a major victory for women’s sports after the Biden Administration officially withdrew its proposed rule to ban states from enforcing policies that protect fairness in girls’ and women’s athletics. -
Attorney General Miyares Sends Warnings to Phone Companies that Have Allowed Robocalls to Bombard Virginians
Attorney General Jason Miyares warned four voice service providers that they have been transmitting suspected illegal robocall traffic on their networks on behalf of one or more of their customers. -
Attorney General Miyares Urges Virginia Servicemembers Defrauded by Harris Jewelry to File a Claim by Dec. 21
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is urging Virginia servicemembers and veterans who were defrauded by Harris Jewelry to file a claim for refunds by the December 21, 2024 deadline. -
Attorney General Miyares Joins 50 Attorneys General in Condemning Political Violence
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has joined a bipartisan coalition of 50 other attorneys general calling for law and order and condemning political violence ahead of presidential election. -
Attorney General Miyares Finalizes Opioid Settlement With Kroger
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a bipartisan coalition of 29 other state attorneys general in announcing the completion of the $1.37 billion settlement agreement with Kroger, addressing the grocery chain’s role in the opioid crisis. -
Attorney General Miyares Announces $52 Million Multistate Settlement with Marriott for Data Breach of Starwood Guest Reservation Database
Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a coalition of 50 Attorneys General has reached a settlement with Marriott International, Inc. as the result of an investigation into a large multi-year data breach of one of its guest reservation databases. -
Attorney General Miyares Demands Enforcement Against TikTok for Failing to Preserve Evidence in Ongoing Investigation
Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a 22-state coalition of attorneys general in urging a Tennessee court to enforce its orders requiring TikTok to comply with an ongoing multistate consumer protection investigation and to preserve and produce relevant evidence. -
Virginia Attorney General Office SAKI Program Helps Convict Rapist in 1992 Norfolk Cold Case
A 32-year old cold case was reopened and a Norfolk jury found Vernon Lorenzo Gay guilty on Wednesday of rape and armed burglary with intention to commit rape. This a 1992 cold case reopened due to DNA testing provided by the Virginia Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI). -
Virginia’s Right to Retrieve Wins Again at Virginia Supreme Court
Virginia’s right to retrieve law marked yet another victory as the Virginia Supreme Court summarily affirmed the ruling of the Court of Appeals that the plaintiffs in this case procedurally defaulted on their appeal. -
Virginia Court Orders American Muslims for Palestine to Produce Records Requested by Attorney General Miyares
Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a Virginia court ordered the AJP Educational Foundation, Inc., also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), to produce records requested by a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) issued by his office. -
Attorney General Miyares Scores Major Win for Collegiate Student-Athletes
Attorney General Jason Miyares announced a landscape-changing settlement with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that permanently eases restrictions on Division I college athletes who have transferred schools multiple times. -
Attorney General Miyares Announces Conviction in Murder of Big Stone Gap Police Officer
Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that Michael Donivan White, age 36, originally of Cross, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to first degree murder of Big Stone Gap Police Officer Michael Chandler in the Wise County Circuit Court. -
Attorney General Miyares Announces Leadership Appointments
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced several top leadership appointments within the Office of the Attorney General. -
Attorney General Miyares Joins Lawsuit to Stop Biden Administration’s Electric-Truck Mandate
Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a lawsuit to stop the Biden Administration from imposing an electric-vehicle mandate on truck manufacturers. A 24-state coalition filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to challenge the Biden Administration’s new regulation of emissions from heavy-duty vehicles. -
Attorney General Miyares Joins Coalition Against the Biden Administration’s Abandoning of Immigration Rule
Attorney General Jason Miyares today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of states attempting to stop the Biden administration’s capitulation to illegal immigration activists.