Virginia Attorney General
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State Executive - Attorney General
1900 Kanawha Blvd E, Charleston, WV 25305
Recent News About Virginia Attorney General
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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.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined an 18 state coalition of attorneys general probing whether Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI, Inc.), a large investment company, is embracing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
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Attorney General Miyares joined a 27 state coalition condemning the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule expanding regulations on liquid waste produced by meat and poultry processing plants in the United States to include indirect discharges.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a 26-state coalition calling on the United States Senate to quickly pass the Laken Riley Act.
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Complaint charges Women's Cancer Fund and Gregory Anderson with raising more than $18 million from donors, with only 1% going to financial support for cancer patients.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares today announced that his Unemployment Compensation Fraud Unit has secured another conviction.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a Virginia man pleaded guilty to robbing the Old Point National Bank in Hampton while holding a bank customer at knifepoint.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general urging Congress to authorize much-needed 2024 bridge funding for the federal Crime Victims Fund (the “VOCA Fund”).
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a federal appeals court has upheld a court order that Virginia, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and six other states won against convicted criminal Martin Shkreli for engaging in illegal and monopolistic behavior as the CEO of Vyera Pharmaceuticals (previously known as Turing Pharmaceuticals).
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a Richmond man was sentenced to two years in prison for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon and possessing a machine gun.
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Attorney General Miyares announced his legislative priorities and goals for the 2024 General Assembly session.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a Portsmouth man was sentenced to 50 months in prison after illegally possessing two firearms, narcotics, and narcotics paraphernalia in a busy residential area near downtown Portsmouth.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares and a bipartisan group of 52 other attorneys general announced a $700 million agreement with Google in their lawsuit about Google’s anticompetitive conduct with the Google Play Store.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that a federal jury convicted a Norfolk man on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that student lender Prehired will provide more than $30 million in relief to student borrowers, for making false promises of job placement, trapping students with “income share” loans that violated the law, and resorting to abusive debt collection practices when borrowers could not pay.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, and Texas are among 20 states whose attorneys general have signed off on a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding that his Disinformation Governance Board be immediately dismantled.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) - Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares has been ordered to perform an additional search for documents related to billionaire climate litigation advocate Michael Bloomberg requested by a watchdog.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments over whether a 605-mile natural gas pipeline can be constructed under parts of the Appalachian Trail.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Legal Newsline) – Virginia’s two houses of its General Assembly have taken a stand against Bloomberg Philanthropies' attempt to hire environmental activist lawyers to sue major companies such as Exxon and Chevron over global warming.
