News Releases

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that he and 44 other attorneys general have reached a $105 million settlement with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC. Ohio’s share of the settlement will be $2,882,287.91.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven M. Dettelbach announced today that the husband and wife owners of a Maple Heights ambulette company will each serve time in prison for fraudulently billing Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of transportation services that they did not actually provide.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a lawsuit against a Butler County concrete contractor accused of failing to deliver promised services to consumers. 

 In an effort to keep the public up-to-date on the progress of the Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Testing Initiative, Attorney General DeWine released the following status update today: 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced that his office is awarding National Association on Mental Illness, Ohio (NAMI) with a $125,000 grant. 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today warned that Ohioans are being targeted by tax scams, even though tax season has ended.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that representatives with his office signed an agreement with 18 Summit County partners to hold the Attorney General’s Fugitive Safe Surrender Program on June 25, 26, 27, and 28 in Summit County.   While it’s not an amnesty program, Fugitive Safe Surrender does give people with outstanding felony and misdemeanor warrants a chance to resolve those issues in a church or other community-based setting. 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced that he is extending the deadline for the Ohio Attorney General’s Moving Ohio Forward demolition grant program.  The deadline to complete demolitions to receive funding was May 31, 2014 and will now be extended to September 30, 2014.

As part of his Ohio Unsolved Homicides Initiative, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is asking for information regarding the shooting death of a Dayton man that happened 22 years ago.

In advance of National Missing Children's Day on Sunday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today released the 2013 Ohio Missing Children Clearinghouse Report, which documents that 18,599 children were reported missing in Ohio in 2013.