2010 Press Releases

(Phoenix, Ariz. -- Oct. 19, 2009)  Attorney General Terry Goddard announced that Patrick Chorpenning Sr., 63, of Peoria, who served as director of the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) between 1999 and 2007, was sentenced today…

(Phoenix, Ariz. - Oct. 15, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that Guillermo Ricardo De La Vara, 68, of Phoenix, has been sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court to three-and-a-half years in prison on charges of theft and…

(Update: All 50 states have now joined the mortgage foreclosure working group.)

(Phoenix, Ariz. -- Oct. 13, 2010)  Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that Arizona will join 47 other state Attorneys General in an…

(Phoenix, Ariz. -- Oct. 12, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard announced that the U.S. Supreme Court this morning granted his petition for certiorari and vacated a federal appellate court ruling that overturned the conviction of Jonathan Doody…

(Phoenix, Ariz. -- Oct. 8, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard announced today he is sending letters to more than 60 mortgage loan servicing companies in Arizona, warning them about possible violations of state law in document signature…

(Phoenix, Ariz. - Oct. 6, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced a multi-state agreement with Wells Fargo Bank ("Wells Fargo") over allegedly deceptive marketing of payment option adjustable rate mortgage loans ("POAs") by two…

(Phoenix, Ariz. - Oct. 5, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that John W. Rodriguez, 31, of Scottsdale, who for many years posed as a highly decorated Marine, has been sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court to seven-and-a-…

(Phoenix, Ariz. - Oct. 4, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard announced that Jason Lon Kirby, 34, of Datilo, New Mexico, was sentenced today in Pinal County Superior Court to two-and-a-half years in prison in a cattle rustling case.

(Phoenix, Ariz. - Oct. 4, 2010) The Civil Rights Division of the Attorney General's Office, in partnership with the Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Office of the Court, is offering a free, 40-hour mediation course to train volunteers to help…

(Phoenix, Ariz. -- Sept. 29, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard announced today the first law enforcement grant from his $94 million recovery earlier this year from Western Union. The $418,000 grant will create an initiative to intercept guns…