2022 Press Releases

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• 2/22/2022 Connecticut Leads Multistate Comments to FERC Urging Ratepayer Protections, Clean Energy Goals in Reactive Power Market Design

  Attorney General William Tong, Commissioner Katherine S. Dykes, and Acting Consumer Counsel Claire E. Coleman today led a coalition of attorneys general and public advocates from nine states and Washington, D.C. in submitting comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urging adoption of environmental justice and ratepayer protections and clean energy policies in reactive power market design.

• 5/9/2022 Attorney General Tong Calls for Federal Contract Workers to Receive Fair Wages

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of attorneys general supporting the federal government’s actions to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour for certain federal contractors.

• 3/9/2022 Attorney General Tong: Biden Administration Restores California’s Waiver for Clean Car Standards in Victory for All

  Attorney General William Tong today issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final action restoring California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act for its greenhouse gas (GHG) and zero-emission vehicle programs. Attorney General Tong was part of multistate litigation during the Trump Administration defending California’s longstanding authority to set its own vehicle emission standards.

• 4/12/2022 Attorney General Tong Calls on CFPB to Prohibit Mortgage Servicers from Charging Convenience Fees

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to prohibit mortgage servicers from charging convenience fees. According to the coalition, convenience fees charged by mortgage servicers are one of the more exploitative “pay to pay” fees consumers face.

• 3/28/2022 Attorney General Tong Urges CFPB to Protect Consumers from Buy-Now-Pay-Later Lending Industry

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to ensure that buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) lenders are not engaging in practices that trap consumers in a cycle of debt.

• 12/23/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces Enforcement Action Against Litchfield Gas Station Over Gas Tax Violation

  Attorney General William Tong today announced Reeha LLC, owner of a Litchfield-based gas station, has paid $2,400 for failure to lower its prices by 25 cents per gallon on April 1 as required by the gas tax holiday suspension. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General found that Reeha did not lower its price until April 10.

• 5/4/2022 Attorney General Tong Secures $1.2 Million for Connecticut Consumers Deceived by TurboTax

  Attorney General William Tong today secured $1.2 million in restitution for 40,841 Connecticut consumers from the owner of TurboTax, Intuit Inc. (Intuit) who deceived consumers into paying for tax services that should have been free.

• 4/7/2022 Attorney General Tong Statement on Treasurer Wooden

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the decision of State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden not to seek re-election.

• 6/22/2022 Connecticut Co-Leads $1.25 Million Multistate Settlement Over 2019 Carnival Cruise Line Data Breach

  Attorney General William Tong today announced that Connecticut, along with 45 other attorneys general, has obtained a $1.25 million multistate settlement with Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line stemming from a 2019 data breach that involved the personal information of approximately 180,000 Carnival employees and customers nationwide.

• 6/17/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces $230 Million Settlement with Mallinckrodt Over Underpayment of Medicaid Drug Rebates

  Attorney General William Tong today announced a $230 million multistate settlement with Mallinckrodt regarding allegations the company knowingly underpaid Medicaid rebates for its drug H.P. Acthar Gel.

• 2/23/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces $310,874 Settlement with Psychiatrist to Resolve False Claims Allegations

  Attorney General William Tong and acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut Leonard C. Boyle today announced a $310,874 settlement with a Hamden psychiatrist to resolve state and federal False Claims Act allegations.

• 8/16/2022 Attorney General Tong Praises U.S. Department of Education Approval of $3.9 Billion Loan Discharge for ITT Technical Institute Students

  Attorney General William Tong today praised a decision by the U.S. Department of Education discharging all remaining federal student loans for borrowers attending ITT Technical Institute from January 1, 2005 through its closure in September 2016.

• 2/25/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces Drug Distributors and Johnson & Johnson Finalize $26 Billion Opioid Agreement

  Attorney General William Tong announced today the final approval of the $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – and Johnson & Johnson.

• 6/27/2022 Attorney General Tong Supports SEC Proposal to Require U.S. Companies to Disclose Financial Risk from Climate Change

• 8/2/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces Nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force

  Attorney General William Tong today announced the formation of a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force of 50 states to investigate and take legal action against the telecommunications companies responsible for bringing a majority of foreign robocalls into the United States. This bipartisan nationwide Task Force has one goal: to cut down on illegal robocalls.