2013 Press Releases

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• 4/16/2013 Give Wisely: State Warns Residents to Beware of Charity Scams in Wake of Boston Tragedy

• 3/26/2013 Consumer Complaint Resources Available As Required By Lender Processing Services Inc. Settlement

• 5/2/2013 Connecticut Attorney General Seeks Information on LivingSocial Network Breach

  Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler yesterday asked the daily deals Web site for more information about the potential consumer impact of this data breach.

• 1/10/2013 DEEP Announces $360,000 in Funding to Seven Municipalities for Purchase of New Diesel Vehicles

• 11/18/2013 Connecticut, 36 Other States Reach $17M Settlement with Google

  Connecticut, with 36 other states and the District of Columbia, has reached a $17 million agreement with Google, Inc. to resolve allegations that the company circumvented default privacy settings pertaining to cookie blocking in Safari Web browsers, Attorney General George Jepsen and state Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein announced today.

• 2/5/2013 Attorney General Jepsen Welcomes Bipartisan Federal Proposal to Curb Illegal Gun Trafficking

• 12/19/2013 Attorney General Urges Congress to Again Extend Tax Relief for Distressed Homeowners

  Attorney General George Jepsen is once again leading a national effort by state attorneys general who are urging Congress to extend tax relief for consumers who have mortgage debt canceled or forgiven because of financial hardship or a decline in housing values.

• 8/1/2013 Bridgeport Grocery Retailer Sued in Trafficking Scheme

  The state is suing a Bridgeport store owner alleging he engaged in a wide-ranging scheme to obtain electronic benefit cards for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”), formerly known as the Food Stamp program, and used them to purchase inventory for his store in violation of federal and state law.

• 11/1/2013 Attorney General Jepsen Urges Regulators to Disallow Substantial Amount of CL&P’s 2011 Storm Recovery

  In a brief filed today, Attorney General George Jepsen asked the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to disallow at least $90 million in storm-related costs that the Connecticut Light & Power Co. is seeking to recover from ratepayers. The Attorney General asserts that certain claimed costs are improper or unjustified and that PURA should impose a substantial penalty for the company’s broadly deficient and inadequate response to Tropical Storm Irene and the October 2011 Nor’easter.

• 10/28/2013 Attorney General Jepsen Joins in Call for U.S. Supreme Court to Recognize Disparate Impact Claims under Fair Housing Act

  In a brief filed today, Attorney General George Jepsen has joined with 11 other state attorneys general in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to recognize disparate impact claims under the federal Fair Housing Act.

• 6/5/2013 Attorney General Jepsen Asks Google for Meeting, Information on Glass Privacy Concerns

  Attorney General George Jepsen has asked Google to address concerns related to the company’s new head-mounted computing and recording device, Glass, and the potential impact the device may have on the privacy of Connecticut residents.

• 4/16/2013 Attorney General, Consumer Protection Post Information Received from Sandy Hook-Related Charities

• 3/1/2013 Statement from Attorney General Jepsen in Response to Attorney’s Demand to Unseal Documents

• 3/28/2013 Attorney General, Consumer Protection Commissioner Seek Information for Public From Sandy Hook Charities

• 5/24/2013 Attorney General Asks Federal Regulators to Consider All Alternatives in Environmental Review of Spent Fuel Storage

  Attorney General George Jepsen has joined with attorneys general in Vermont, Massachusetts and New York in asking federal regulators to broaden their generic environmental impact review of spent nuclear fuel storage at nuclear power plants.