Category: Ohio

Ohio Stolen Gun Portal Created to Increase Integrity of Firearm Sales

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today announced the creation of the Ohio Stolen Gun Portal, a searchable website designed to increase...

AG Yost Steps in to Save Ohioans Nearly $2 Billion as FirstEnergy Agrees to Not Adjust Rates for Profit

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — FirstEnergy is agreeing to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s demands that the company stop using a clause in House Bill 6...

Central Ohio Human Trafficking Operation Rescues 8

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and New Albany Police Chief Greg Jones today announced the results of a recent human trafficking...

AG Yost Asks Congress for Safe Harbor while Ohio Investigates Unemployment Fraud

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Attorney General Dave Yost has asked Congress to protect hundreds of thousands of working Ohioans who may have had fraudulent unemployment claims filed in...

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,...

Ohio Emergency Management offering rebate for Safe Room

Are you or have you ever considered installing a safe room in your home. Ohio Emergency Management is offering a rebate when you install...

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...

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...

Governor DeWine Announces Pause of Data Center Tax Exemption

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)— Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced today that he has directed the chair of the Ohio Tax Credit Authority to pause consideration of...