Press Release Archived

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• Attorney General Sponsors Consumer Expo To Mark 13th Annual Consumer Protection Week

• Attorney General Warns Small Businesses Not To Fall For Yellow Pages Scam

• Attorney General Joins National Effort To Keep Smoking Out of Movies Targeted At Youth

  Attorney General George Jepsen has joined attorneys general in 37 states and U.S. territories in urging movie studio executives to get smoking out of movies aimed at teenagers and young adults because it is a negative influence that encourages them to smoke.

• Attorney General Seeks More Information About Proposed Sale Of Portion Of Stanley Park

• Attorneys General Oppose Proposed Settlement of Class-Action Lawsuit Against Direct Buy Inc.

• Attorney General Joins Multi-State Effort To Defend Federal Mercury Emissions Standards

  HARTFORD –Attorney General George Jepsen joined today with attorneys general of 10 other states and the District of Columbia seeking to defend an air emissions rule that would reduce the amount of toxic mercury discharged by electric power plants by 90 percent.

• Attorney General Loses His Hair To Advance Children’s Cancer Research

• Attorney General Jepsen Announces Imminent Abnormal Market Disruption on Energy Products

• Full Regulatory Review Of NU Merger Needed To Protect Connecticut Consumers

• New Milford Clinical Social Worker Pays $210,000 To Settle Allegations Under the False Claims Act

• Media Advisory

• New Haven Dentist Pays $212,000 To Settle False Claims Act Allegations

  United States Attorney David B. Fein and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that KRISTI ROSSOMANDO, D.M.D. and her dental practice, The CHILDREN’S DENTAL GROUP, P.C., with offices located at 825 Grand Avenue in New Haven, have entered into a civil settlement with the federal and state governments in which they will pay $212,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.

• Landowner Required to Pay $282,000 Civil Penalty For Failure to Comply With Pollution Abatement Order

  Attorney General George Jepsen said that Ohio-based Cadlerock Properties Joint Venture, L.P. has been ordered to pay a $282,000 civil penalty for failing to comply with a pollution abatement order issued by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) in 1997.

• Consumer Advisory: Borders Group To Close Remaining Stores

• Connecticut Joins Multi-State Effort To Compel EPA To Issue New Air Quality Standards

  Connecticut and 11 other states notified the federal Environmental Protection Agency today of their intent to sue after 60 days over the agency’s failure to issue revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter, or soot, as required by the Clean Air Act.