News Releases

A home-improvement contractor with a history of defrauding customers has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison for the theft of more than $500,000, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing a Cincinnati-area used-car dealer who allegedly failed to provide customers with titles for the vehicles they bought – a violation of Ohio’s consumer protection laws.

Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a motion asking that Ohio be named lead plaintiff in a securities class-action lawsuit claiming that ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. deliberately misled investors, fueling $75.9 million in losses for the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today accepted the petition summary of a proposed constitutional amendment, “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights,” that seeks to amend Article V and Sections 1, 2 and 6 of the Ohio Constitution.

At the request of the Dayton Police Department, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is conducting a cold case review of the unsolved 2009 homicide of 85-year-old Army Sgt. Maj. (Ret.) North Woodall, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.

In an effort to safeguard democratic principles and the rule of law, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost led a bipartisan coalition of 50 other attorneys general calling for peace nationwide in response to the Nov. 5 presidential election.

A Jackson County man has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a child, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Jackson County Prosecutor Randy Dupree announced today.

A Columbus physician and his medical clinic were found guilty today of overbilling Medicaid by $1.5 million, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 24 other state attorneys general are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to permit Virginia’s removal of roughly 1,600 self-identified noncitizens from voter rolls.

The former marketing director of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, who pleaded guilty to 16 felonies, was sentenced to five years in prison today for his role in a scheme that defrauded the zoo of at least $2.3 million, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced.