News & Alerts
- May 2012 • CONSUMER ALERT
Who Has Your Information and Where is it Going Next?
What happens to your information – such as your whereabouts, your product preferences, and your personal information – when you shop online, access social media sites, make a purchase with a customer loyalty card, use a cell phone app, or fill a prescription?
- May 7, 2012 • PRESS RELEASE
Alaska Joins $100 Million Settlement Relating to Illegal Marketing of Prescription Drug
Attorney General Michael C. Geraghty today joined 44 other states and the District of Columbia in announcing a $100 million settlement with Abbott Laboratories over allegations of illegal marketing of the drug Depakote. The agreement marks the largest consumer protection-based pharmaceutical settlement ever reached.
- April 2012 • CONSUMER ALERT
This Tax Season Watch Out for Tax-Related Identity Theft
With the approaching April 17 tax deadline, the Consumer Protection Unit of the Alaska Attorney General's Office has received reports from Alaskans who are victims of tax related identity theft.
- February 29, 2012 • PRESS RELEASE
The Alaska Attorney General's Office Warns of a "Grandparent Scam" Targeting Alaska Seniors
The Consumer Protection Unit of the Alaska Attorney General's Office has recently received increased reports from victims of a "grandparent" scam targeting elderly Alaskans. Scammers have been calling grandparents in Alaska posing as grandchildren injured in car accidents in different countries.
- February 17, 2012 • PRESS RELEASE
State Requesting to Intervene in Ninth Circuit NEPA Case
Attorney General Michael Geraghty today filed a motion to intervene in a case challenging the adequacy of the environmental review of the Port MacKenzie rail line extension. The rail line will improve the state's transportation system by allowing freight to be transported to and from the Interior and Port MacKenzie.
