Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Updates: May 10-14, 2021
State AG Updates: May 3-7, 2021
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Updates: May 3-7, 2021
State AG Updates: April 26-30, 2021
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Updates: April 26-30, 2021
State AG Updates: April 19 – 23, 2021
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Updates: April 19 – 23, 2021
FTC Files First Civil Penalty Complaint Alleging Deceptive COVID-19 Marketing
On April 15, 2021, the FTC filed its first complaint under the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act (the CCP Act). The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, alleges that an in-state chiropractor and his company violated both the CCP Act and the FTC Act by deceptively marketing Vitamin D and Zinc products to treat COVID-19.Continue Reading FTC Files First Civil Penalty Complaint Alleging Deceptive COVID-19 Marketing
State AG Update: Jan. 19-22, 2021
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Update: Jan. 19-22, 2021
State AG Update: Jan. 11-15, 2021
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Update: Jan. 11-15, 2021
State AG Update: December 28 – 31, 2020
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AG’s have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Update: December 28 – 31, 2020
State AG Update: December 20 – 25, 2020
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AG’s have taken. Here are this week’s updates.Continue Reading State AG Update: December 20 – 25, 2020
COVID-19 Relief Fraud Prosecutions Target Increasingly Sophisticated Schemes
Eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and its law enforcement partners are taking an increasingly aggressive approach to investigating and pursuing allegations of fraud related to federal relief programs designed to aid small businesses and their employees. Over the past week, the DOJ announced charges against 11 individuals in connection with two different COVID-19 relief fraud schemes. In each case, the individuals sought to illegally obtain millions of dollars in relief funds guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).Continue Reading COVID-19 Relief Fraud Prosecutions Target Increasingly Sophisticated Schemes