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PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich today announced that Anthem, Inc. has agreed to pay Arizona over $280,000 to resolve allegations stemming from a 2014 data breach that involved the personal information of 78.8 million Americans. The settlement with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office (AGO) is part of a $39.5 million settlement with 43 total states and the District of Columbia. In addition to the payment, Anthem has also agreed to a series of data security and good governance provisions designed to strengthen its practices going forward.

Operation Corrupt Collector targets debt collectors trying to collect on non-existent debts, using illegal scare tactics

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that a State Grand Jury indicted Farhad Kankash, owner of Onyx Motor Sports and Main Auto Group car dealerships, on seven counts of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices and seven counts of Theft, involving over $350,000.

Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) agents conducted an investigation and discovered thirteen (13) victims accused Kankash of theft from April 2018 to April 2019.

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich today announced that C.R. Bard, Inc. and its parent company Becton, Dickinson and Company have agreed to pay $1.15 million to Arizona in penalties. The settlement with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office is part of a $60 million settlement with 48 states and the District of Columbia to resolve allegations that C.R. Bard deceptively marketed its transvaginal surgical mesh devices.

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced former charter school principal, Joann Vega, was sentenced to four months in jail and ordered to pay $2,538,722 in restitution for her role in enrolling fake students to obtain funding from the Arizona Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Vega is the second defendant to be sentenced in this case.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Attorney General Mark Brnovich will meet with President Donald Trump and seven other attorneys general to discuss proactive ways to ensure consumer protection in the digital world.

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich is proud to announce the Arizona Attorney General's Office has been recognized by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) as a 2020 Supreme Court Best Brief recipient.

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that a State Grand Jury indicted Lorenzo U. Herrera a/k/a Larry Herrera, a former candidate for the Arizona Senate, on 34 felony counts including Attempted Fraudulent Schemes and Practices, Forgery, and Perjury.

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich today announced that his office has added multinational engineering company Bosch to its consumer fraud lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz USA and Daimler.

1,008 Arizona Students Will Receive $7.8 million in Student Loan Debt Relief

PHOENIX — Attorney General Mark Brnovich has secured an agreement to obtain $7.8 million in debt relief for more than 1,000 former ITT Tech students in Arizona as part of a settlement with 48 attorneys general and the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Nationally, this settlement will result in debt relief of about $330 million for 35,000 borrowers who have outstanding principal balances.