2023 Press Releases

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• 5/10/2023 Attorney General Tong Praises Bipartisan House Vote to Expand Fraud-Fighting Authority

  Attorney General William Tong today praised a nearly unanimous 138-7 vote in the state House of Representatives to approve expanded authority for the Office of the Attorney General to fight fraud and abuse across state government.

• 5/9/2023 Attorney General Tong Announces $560,718 False Claims Settlement with Hospital Owner and Medical Group

  Attorney General William Tong and United States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery today announced that Northeast Medical Group (NEMG) and Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. (YNHH) have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which they will pay $560,718 to resolve allegations they overbilled the federal Medicare and Connecticut Medicaid programs.

• 5/8/2023 Attorney General Tong Leads 16 States in Sounding Alarm Over Pervasive Plastic Microfiber Pollution, Calls on EPA to Protect Public Health and Ocean Safety

  In a letter today to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Attorney General William Tong led 16 states in sounding the alarm over pervasive plastic microfiber pollution, urging EPA and NOAA to use the full extent of their authority to protect public health and the safety of our oceans.

• 5/5/2023 Connecticut Psychologist Pays $685K to Settle Allegations She Received Payments from Medicare and Medicaid for Services Not Provided

  Attorney General William Tong and Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut today announced that Dr. Evelyn Llewellyn has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which she will pay $658,294 to settle allegations that she received payments from the Medicare and Medicaid programs for psychology services that were not provided.

• 5/5/2023 Attorney General Tong Announces Enforcement Action Against Deceptive Home Warranty Company

  Attorney General William Tong today announced that Integrity Admin Group, Inc. will pay $10,000 and end its misleading marketing practices following an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General into the company’s home warranty notices.

• 5/4/2023 Attorney General Tong Announces Distribution of $141 Million Settlement to Millions of Low-Income Americans Deceived by TurboTax Owner Intuit

  Attorney General William Tong today announced that consumers deceived by TurboTax owner Intuit into paying for free tax services will begin receiving checks from a $141 million multistate settlement announced in May 2022.

• 5/2/2023 Attorney General Tong Continues Fight to Protect Medication Abortion Access

  Attorney General William Tong continued his efforts to protect access to medication abortion in an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Joining with a multistate coalition, Attorney General Tong argues that the decision issued by a district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas would do serious harm to Americans’ access to the medication abortion drug, mifepristone. This amicus brief is part of Attorney General Tong’s ongoing fight to protect our rights to privacy, health care options, and medication abortion access.

• 5/1/2023 Attorney General Tong Reaches $150,000 Settlement with Hope Home Health Agency Over Improper Billing

  Attorney General William Tong today announced the State has reached a $150,000 settlement with Hope Home Health Agency, Inc. and its owner, Miledy Marmol, resolving allegations that the agency’s billing practices violated the Connecticut False Claims Act.

• 4/27/2023 Attorney General Tong Calls on Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to Reject "Bloated, Unsupported" Rate Hike, Seeks $2 Million Annual Penalty Over United Illuminating Failure to Remediate New Haven English Station

  Attorney General William Tong today called on the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to reject a “bloated, unsupported” $130.7 million rate hike sought by United Illuminating, and to further impose a $2 million annual penalty for the company’s ongoing failure to remediate the former English Station power plant in New Haven.

• 4/26/2023 Attorney General Tong Announces Receipt of $124.6 Million Through Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, Calls for Increased Spending on Tobacco and Nicotine Control

  Attorney General William Tong today announced the State of Connecticut has received its annual payment – this year totaling more than $124.6 million – pursuant to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. He also called on the state to increase its spending to prevent youth smoking and vaping, and to assist Connecticut residents of any age in their efforts to stop smoking or vaping.

• 4/24/2023 Attorney General Tong Statement on Supreme Court Cert Denial in Suncor Energy v. Boulder

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Suncor Energy v. Boulder and several similar cases involving state law claims against energy companies and their role in exacerbating climate change.

• 4/24/2023 CNG Over-Collected $8 Million From Connecticut Ratepayers, Attorney General Tong, Consumer Counsel Coleman, Connecticut Industrial Energy Consumers, PURA Office of Education Outreach and Enforcement Call for New Rate Hearing

  Following a recent earnings report showing Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation over-collected $8 million from Connecticut families and businesses, Attorney General William Tong, Consumer Counsel Claire E. Coleman, Connecticut Industrial Energy Consumers, and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement submitted a joint petition to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority seeking a new rate hearing to drive down costs for consumers.

• 4/21/2023 Attorney General Tong Statement on Supreme Court Stay Preserving Access to Medication Abortion Nationwide

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement after the U.S Supreme Court further stayed a Texas judge’s medication abortion decision that would suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s long-standing approval of mifepristone. The Texas judge’s order is now on hold until the federal Fifth Circuit hears and resolves the FDA’s appeal and the Supreme Court resolves any certiorari petition.

• 4/20/2023 Attorney General Tong Calls for Recall of Theft-Prone Hyundai and Kia Vehicles

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general calling for a federal recall of Hyundai and Kia vehicles following the companies’ continued failure to take adequate steps to address the alarming rate of theft of their vehicles.

• 4/19/2023 Attorney General Tong Statement on Extension of Supreme Court Stay Preserving Access to Medication Abortion Nationwide

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement after U.S Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extended an administrative stay of the Texas medication abortion decision that would suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s long-standing approval of mifepristone. The stay is now in effect through Friday, April 21 at 11:59 p.m.