Category: Ohio Attorney General

AG Yost Files Motion to Stop FirstEnergy from $102 Million Cash Grab

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is placing a roadblock in the way of FirstEnergy collecting $102 million in ill-gotten profits contained in...

AG Yost Agrees to Settlement with Charity that Used Veterans to Get Rich

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has agreed to a multistate settlement with an organization that claimed to help wounded veterans of...

Record Surges in Opioid Overdoses Prompts AG Yost to Urge Vigilance

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — More Ohioans died of an opioid overdose during a three-month period last year than at any time since the epidemic began,...

The Fight Against Human Trafficking: 2020 in Review

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The fight against human trafficking was and remains a top priority for Attorney General Dave Yost during 2020 as his office...

AG Yost Agrees to Settlement with Sabre Hospitality After Multistate Investigation

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has agreed to a settlement with Sabre Corporation after a multistate investigation involving 27 states of...

Drug Interdiction Task Forces Seize Over $29 Million in Narcotics

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Governor Mike DeWine and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Vance Callender today announced that...

AG Yost Issues Warning to Ohioans to Watch for Covid-19 Vaccine Scams

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is cautioning Ohioans to look out for COVID-19 vaccine-related scams that will occur as the vaccine...

AG Yost Fights for Restitution Owed to Victims of Payday Lending Fraud

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today joined a bipartisan coalition of 30 attorneys general urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm...

AG Yost Agrees to $86.3 Million Settlement with Nationstar After Improper Handling of Home Loans

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has joined with the attorneys general from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and other...

Registration Open for Attorney General Dave Yost’s Human Trafficking Summit

Second Annual Summit to Be Held Virtually on January 14, 2021 (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s Human Trafficking Initiative has opened registration for...

Attorneys General Urge Congress to Pass Extension for CARES Act Funding as Pandemic Impacts Economy

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has joined a coalition of attorneys general representing 43 states, the District of Columbia and five...

AG Yost Files Lawsuit Against Car Dealership For Selling Vehicles Without Titles

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against a Cincinnati-area used car dealership after receiving about 80 complaints...

AG Wilson Announces Plan to Bolster Ohio’s Fight Against Romance Scams Targeting Older Adults

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson today revealed plans for a statewide initiative to enhance Ohio's response to romance scams and similar...

Six Medicaid Providers Facing Fraud, Theft Charges

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Indictments filed this month by the office of Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson accuse six Medicaid providers of stealing a combined...

Stark County Man, Nonprofit Indicted in Theft of Charitable Donations

(CANTON, Ohio) — A Stark County man and his nonprofit organization have been indicted for allegedly stealing approximately $375,000 in charitable donations over three...

Illegal Dumping Investigation Yields Three Indictments in Northeast Ohio

(AKRON, Ohio) — A Summit County grand jury this week indicted two men and a junk-removal business in connection with illegal dumping in Copley Township, Attorney...

Former FirstEnergy Executives Reindicted on Public Corruption Charges

(AKRON, Ohio) — Two former FirstEnergy executives have been reindicted for their alleged roles in the House Bill 6 scandal involving the Akron-based electric utility, Ohio Attorney...