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As Virginia prepares for a potential hurricane event, Governor McAuliffe’s declaration of a state of emergency has triggered Virginia’s anti-price gouging statutes designed to protect consumers from paying exorbitant prices for necessities during an emergency.
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Attorney General Mark Herring today announced a settlement with Annual Business Services LLC (ABS), a Florida limited liability company that used targeted mailings to obtain approximately $15,800 in the aggregate from more than 150 Virginia businesses.
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Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced Wednesday that he plans to run for re-election in 2017, in turn taking himself out of the running for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination.
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The thought of having your electrical service disconnected is frightening for anyone. That is exactly what scammers are banking on to make a currently active scam effective.
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Attorney General Mark Herring is commemorating the third annual Military Consumer Protection Day by bringing focus to the unique consumer challenges of servicemembers, veterans and their families while deployed and when they return home.
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Chase Card Services entered into a consent order today with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and agreements with attorneys general for 47 states and the District of Columbia relating to practices stopped years ago for its sworn document, collections litigation and certain debt sales practices on defaulted credit card debt.
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The Office of Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Charlottesville has filed in the Charlottesville General District Court a request for the entry of an order of nolle prosequi of misdemeanor charges pending against Martese Johnson.
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Last week, we recognized National Police Week, an annual commemoration leading up to May 15th, which was coined Peace Officers Memorial Day in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy. We owe much gratitude to our law enforcement officers at the local, state, and federal levels, who put themselves in danger on a daily basis.
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This morning, the Office of the Attorney General issued new legal guidance regarding how the Virginia Department of Health and State Board of Health can proceed with implementing revisions to Virginia’s TRAP regulations.
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Tragedy pushed a young Tim Martin to a career chasing bad guys. His older brother, Edward, was shot in the head at point-blank range during a 1993 robbery. Tim Martin, then 16, was a regular in the courtroom at the trial of the man accused of shooting Edward, then 23, and Edward’s girlfriend, Sheryl L. Stack, 20, who was killed in the shooting.
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