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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. -
Attorney General Miyares Joined Multistate Probe into Allegations that Morgan Stanley Capital International is Embracing Anti-Israel BDS Movement
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Joins Coalition Against Expanded EPA Regulations
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Calls on U.S. Senate to Pass Laken Riley Act
Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a 26-state coalition calling on the United States Senate to quickly pass the Laken Riley Act. -
Attorney General Miyares and FTC Take Action Against Operator of Sham Cancer Charity for Deceiving Donors
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Secures Conviction for Unemployment Fraud
Attorney General Jason Miyares today announced that his Unemployment Compensation Fraud Unit has secured another conviction. -
Operation Ceasefire Secures Guilty Plea in Hampton Armed Bank Robbery
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Joins Bipartisan Coalition Urging Congress to Stabilize Funding to Support Victims of Crime
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”). -
Attorney General Miyares Announces Latest Win Against Martin Shkreli for Illegal Scheme to Monopolize Lifesaving Drug
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). -
Operation Ceasefire Secures Prison Time for Richmond Gun Crime
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Announces Legislative Agenda for 2024 General Assembly Session
Attorney General Miyares announced his legislative priorities and goals for the 2024 General Assembly session. -
Operation Ceasefire Secures 50 Month Sentence for Portsmouth Man Over Drug and Firearm Offenses
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Announces $700 Million Settlement with Google over Play Store Misconduct
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Announces Norfolk Ceasefire Conviction
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. -
Attorney General Miyares Obtains Order Requiring Prehired to Provide Students More than $30 Million in Relief for Illegal Student Lending Practices
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. -
20 AGs threaten legal action if Disinformation Governance Board is not dismantled
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. -
Virginia Attorney General ordered to 'perform additional search' for Bloomberg climate change documents
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. -
SCOTUS hears arguments in fight over pipeline under Appalachian Trail; 18 AGs support project
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. -
Virginia doesn't want one of Bloomberg's environmental prosecutors sent to its AG's office
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.