2012 Press Releases

FLORENCE (Thursday, April 26, 2012) -- Attorney General Tom Horne announced today that Hilario Aguirre of Stanfield, Arizona has been sentenced in Pinal County Superior Court to twenty years in the Department of Corrections for his role as high-…

Attorney General Tom Horne today issued the following statement upon the execution of convicted murder Thomas Kemp: 

"Nearly 20 years after murdering Tucson resident Hector Juarez, justice has been served on Thomas Kemp. …

PHOENIX (Wednesday, April 25, 2012) -- Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that a consent agreement has been reached between the Attorney General's office and American Residential Services, L.L.C., a home heating and air conditioning…

Today's hearing went well. The Obama Administration took the outrageous step of suing one of the 50 states for trying to enforce federal law. Arizona has been hit disproportionately hard by illegal immigration and the state had no choice but to…

PHOENIX (Tuesday, April 24, 2012) -- As the National Mortgage Settlement between Arizona and 48 other states, the federal government, and the country's five largest residential mortgage loan servicers goes into effect, Arizona Attorney General…

PHOENIX (Monday, April 23, 2012) -- Attorney General Tom Horne today filed a lawsuit against Mortgage Relief Group, d.b.a. Mortgage Assistance Group, and its owner, Stan Allotey, alleging that the Defendants engaged in deceptive loan modification…

(Phoenix, Ariz. – Thursday, April 19, 2012) -- Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that 33 year-old Jeffery Ray Capshaw of Flagstaff was sentenced today in Maricopa County Superior Court to 3 years in prison for Forgery, a class 4 felony…

PHOENIX (Wednesday, April 11, 2012) Attorney General Tom Horne and 15 other state attorneys general today filed suit against three of the nation’s largest book publishers and Apple, Inc. for conspiring to raise the retail prices of electronic…

PHOENIX (Tuesday, April 10, 2012)  --  Attorney General Tom Horne says a newly-signed state law will offer seniors more protection from a proliferating number of new telephone solicitation scams.  Consumers have lost millions of…

PHOENIX (April 9, 2012) Attorney General Tom Horne today announced that Alejandro Castro-Vega was sentenced today to the maximum of 10 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections for his involvement operating a methamphetamine distribution…