(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray today joined the attorneys general of eight states and the District of Columbia, announcing lawsuits against two motor vehicle service contract marketing companies: Missouri-based U.S. Fidelis (USF), formerly National Auto Warranty Services and Dealer Services; and California-based Credexx Corporation, dba Auto One Warranty Specialists (Auto One). Cordray also filed a separate suit against Auto Repair Warranty, Inc. (ARW), a Cleveland-based company.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Over the past several weeks, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office has seen an influx of complaints against scammers who make reference to the Medicare program in a ploy to get consumer information. Attorney General Richard Cordray today warns Ohioans to be wary of unsolicited phone calls from “Medicare” seeking personal information.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray today urged Congress to resist efforts to strip state attorneys general of their power, pointing to Ohio’s case filed last November against Wall Street’s three rating agencies as a leading example of why states need to retain the ability to protect its citizens from financial exploitation.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is welcoming a new ruling by the United States Supreme Court in a significant securities fraud case, Merck & Co. v. Reynolds. The ruling, handed down today, addresses the issue of statutes of limitations in securities litigation. Cordray, who has eight securities cases pending, filed an amicus brief in October on behalf of Ohio and 25 other states in the case.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Attorney General Richard Cordray has announced that pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will pay $520 million to settle allegations of an illegal marketing campaign that improperly promoted the antipsychotic drug, Seroquel. The Ohio Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit played a lead role in the case and served on the negotiating team for the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray today convened the second annual Ohio Military and Veterans Summit, where he called on federal and state leaders to identify ways to better reach Ohio’s estimated 964,000 veterans and military members.  Joining Cordray at the summit were U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton and representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S Department of Veterans Affairs and Ohio Department of Veterans Services, as well as veterans and military members from across the state.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray’s office today received a submission from The People’s Constitution Coalition of Ohio for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution titled Ohio Sovereignty Amendment.

The committee previously submitted Ohio Sovereignty Amendment petitions to the Attorney General’s office on Sept. 22, 2009, Dec. 21, 2009 and March 16, 2010.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) - Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray today called on Congress to enact long overdue reform of Wall Street banks. Such legislation is now being considered in two key Senate committees, after the House of Representatives approved tougher rules for Wall Street last year. 

(FINDLAY, Ohio) – Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray today launched a statewide effort to strengthen local protection for senior citizens. Joining forces with officials from the National Association of Triads, Inc. (NATI), Buckeye State Sheriffs’ Association (BSSA), Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP), Ohio Crime Prevention Association (OCPA) and Ohio Department of Aging (ODA), Cordray called upon local agencies to partner with seniors and activate Triads.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray today won an important case concerning a law that would protect children from receiving obscene material online. The decision came from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati in American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Cordray.