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.
Defendant Ordered to Pay More than $2 million in Restitution
PHOENIX - Former charter school principal, Harold Cadiz, was sentenced to 3.75 years in prison and ordered to pay $2,538,722 in restitution for his 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.
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that the Arizona Attorney General’s Division of Civil Rights Section (Division) entered into a consent decree to resolve a disability lawsuit filed by the Division, pursuant to the Arizona Civil Rights Act (ACRA), against Big Tex Trailer World, Inc., d/b/a Big Tex Trailers (Big Tex).