2025 Press Releases

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• 9/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding PURA Draft Decision Reducing United Illuminating $105 Million Rate Hike

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the draft decision today by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority reducing a $105 million rate hike demand from United Illuminating.

• 9/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Double Digit Increases in Approved Health Insurance Rates

  Attorney General William Tong today released the following statement regarding double-digit increases approved today by the Connecticut Insurance Department for seven health insurers for plans available on the individual and small group market, both on and off the state-sponsored exchange.

• 9/9/2025 Connecticut, California and Colorado Announce Joint Investigative Privacy Sweep

  Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and the attorneys general of California and Colorado and the California Privacy Protection Agency today announced an investigative sweep involving potential noncompliance with Global Privacy Control, or GPC, an easy-to-use browser setting or extension that automatically signals to businesses a consumer’s request to stop selling or sharing their personal information to third parties.

• 9/4/2025 Connecticut and Rhode Island to Sue to Overturn Baseless Revolution Wind Stop Work Order

  Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that Connecticut and Rhode Island will sue the Trump administration in Rhode Island federal court today to overturn the baseless stop work order abruptly issued on August 22 halting construction of Revolution Wind.

• 9/2/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Court Fixes to End Google Search Engine Monopoly and Restore Competition

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding today’s court ruling on the remedies in the Google search antitrust case to restore competition in the market and for the benefit of consumers.

• 9/2/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Reduced Pension for East Haven Educator Convicted of Stealing Tuition Payments

  Attorney General William Tong announced today that a Hartford Superior Court judge has ordered a partial reduction in municipal pension payments for Catherine Finkle, who was convicted in federal court in 2021 of stealing over $38,000 in tuition payments she received as the director of the Town of East Haven’s before and after-school childcare program.

• 8/29/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Appeals Court Win Declaring Trump Tariffs Illegal

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with Connecticut and 11 other attorneys general suing to block Trump’s unlawful tariffs.

• 8/29/2025 Attorney General Tong Stops $184 Million Cut to AmeriCorps Service Programs

  Attorney General William Tong today announced the Trump Administration will fully release all withheld AmeriCorps funds, following a lawsuit brought by Connecticut, 23 other states and the District of Columbia.

• 8/29/2025 Attorney General Tong Notifies Court of Unlawful Revolution Wind Stop Work Order

  Attorney General William Tong on Thursday night formally notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts of the stop work order halting the Revolution Wind project and the severe harm to Connecticut ratepayers, grid reliability, and jobs caused by stopping this fully-permitted and nearly complete project.

• 8/28/2025 Attorney General Tong Cautions College Students and Job Seekers to Beware of Job Recruitment Scams

  As college students return to campus, Attorney General William Tong is urging students to beware of job recruitment scams targeting young job seekers.

• 8/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Court Approval of $150,000 False Claims Settlement With Dentist Over Prohibited Patient Recruiting Fees

  Attorney General William Tong today announced a $150,000 false claims settlement with Norwalk dentist Nazneen Jaffri, DDS (“Jaffri”) resolving allegations that she violated state and federal False Claims Act statutes through prohibited fees paid to a “patient recruiting” company. Also today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut issued judgment against Jaffri for the outstanding balance of the $150,000 settlement.

• 8/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Second Circuit Rejection of Preliminary Injunctions in Challenges to Connecticut's Assault Weapon and Large Capacity Magazine Bans

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirming denial of preliminary injunctions sought by the National Association for Gun Rights, the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, the Second Amendment Foundation, and individuals in two separate challenges to Connecticut’s post-Sandy Hook assault weapons ban.

• 8/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges PURA to Reject Creation of New Aquarion Water Authority that Could Double Consumer Bills

  Attorney General William Tong today urged the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to reject the sale of Aquarion Company to a new nonprofit that could double household bills and gut public oversight of water utility rates and consumer protections.

• 8/21/2025 Attorney General Tong Petitions the FDA to Remove Burdensome Restrictions on Mifepristone

  Attorney General William Tong, 16 other attorneys general and the governor of Pennsylvania this week petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove burdensome restrictions on mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions, the most common means of abortion in the United States.

• 8/20/2025 Attorney General Tong Continues Support of Litigation Challenging Unconstitutional Immigration Stops in Southern California

  Attorney General William Tong today, as part of a coalition of 17 attorneys general, submitted a second amicus brief in support of litigation challenging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) unconstitutional and unlawful stops of Southern California residents during immigration sweeps.