Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced that his office stopped illegal price gouging by an Amazon.com third party seller called Goods And More Incorporated (“Goods And More”), based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Read the full article here.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Thursday released a scathing grand jury report on the state’s Marcellus Shale natural gas industry that not only outlines health and safety issues caused by hydraulic fracturing, but also takes to task the chief agency in charge of enforcing regulations on the industry. Click here to read the full […]

Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced that the 45th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury voted to charge Bassam El-Borno, M.D., a Lancaster County psychiatrist with felony violations of the Drug Act for prescribing outside the good faith practice of medicine, Medicaid fraud, theft by deception, insurance fraud, and a violation of the Wiretap Act. The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General worked […]

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, along with members of Congress and law enforcement, is calling for Pennsylvania to enact a chokehold ban. “In my office, and this is important. Chokeholds are not used as a restraint,” said Shapiro. “We don’t train our agents to use chokeholds and we don’t use them period. This practice isn’t […]

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued a statement in support of the Supreme Court’s decision, saying he has fought to keep young Dreamers in Pennsylvania. “The Supreme Court made clear today that DACA is the law of the land. Dreamers are Americans. I fought hard in court to protect the 5,900 remarkable young people across […]

“We take very seriously the Constitutional right to clean air and pure water,” Shapiro told the Business Times in an interview. Read the full article here.

Yesterday, the large fracking company Range Resources pled no contest to charges of environmental crimes related to leaks and contamination at natural-gas wells in Washington County. The plea was in response to charges set forth by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D-Montgomery), which stemmed from a two-year investigation. “In Pennsylvania, clean air and pure water […]

Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today that the First National Bank (FNB) of Pennsylvania has agreed to join the PA CARE Package initiative. According to Attorney General Shapiro, under the PA CARE Package initiative, banks and financial institutions are working with the Office’s Bureau of Consumer Protection to both comply with the recently passed federal CARES Act […]