2019 Press Releases

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that DePuy Orthopedics, Inc. and its parent company Johnson & Johnson, have agreed to pay $2.4 million to Arizona and to reform how DePuy markets hip implants.…

Attorney General Mark Brnovich is warning Arizonans about con artists pretending to be from the Social Security Administration (SSA) scheming to obtain victims’ Social Security numbers and access to their financials. In many cases, scammers go as…

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 53-year-old Peter Joseph Caddeo, of Phoenix, was sentenced to 14 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.  Caddeo, appearing before…

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Karen Hernandez and Pedro Arvizu, two tax preparers, for allegedly preparing false Arizona State resident personal income tax returns submitted to…

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that Arizona is part of a bipartisan coalition of 19 states that filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to defend the Indian Child Welfare…

CAMPE VERDE – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 28-year-old JJ Austin Angel Amack McFarland, of Cottonwood, also known as Jay McFarland, was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections for…

Consumers Harmed by Alleged Installation of Unlawful “Defeat Devices” in Certain Diesel Vehicles $1,000 in Compensation to be Provided for up to 2,585 Arizonans 

PHOENIX – Attorney General…

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Harold Cadiz and Joann Vega for their alleged roles in the approximately $2.2 million fraud involving the use of false students at the Bradley Academy…

Seeks Compensation for Arizonans Over Alleged "Clean Diesel" Vehicle Claims 

PHOENIX – Fresh off a $40 million consumer recovery case against Volkswagen, Attorney General Mark Brnovich…

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that The Neiman Marcus Group LLC has agreed to pay $1.5 million and implement a number of policies to resolve an investigation by 43 states and the District of Columbia…