2025 Press Releases
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8/13/2025
Connecticut Lab and Owners to Pay More Than $1.2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
Attorney General William Tong today announced that Genco Lab, LLC and its owners and officers, Paul Conroy, Tricia Conroy, and Charles Orefice, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments and agreed to pay more than $1.2 million to settle allegations that they submitted false and fraudulent claims to government health care programs.
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9/9/2025
Connecticut, California and Colorado Announce Joint Investigative Privacy Sweep
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and the attorneys general of California and Colorado and the California Privacy Protection Agency today announced an investigative sweep involving potential noncompliance with Global Privacy Control, or GPC, an easy-to-use browser setting or extension that automatically signals to businesses a consumer’s request to stop selling or sharing their personal information to third parties.
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9/4/2025
Connecticut and Rhode Island to Sue to Overturn Baseless Revolution Wind Stop Work Order
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that Connecticut and Rhode Island will sue the Trump administration in Rhode Island federal court today to overturn the baseless stop work order abruptly issued on August 22 halting construction of Revolution Wind.
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10/17/2025
Attorney General Tong Supports Challenge to Executive Orders Unlawfully Targeting Transgender Individuals and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Initiatives
Attorney General William Tong, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to President Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives and programs that support transgender individuals.
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10/3/2025
Attorneys General Tong Files Second Lawsuit Against DOJ to Protect Services for Crime Survivors
Attorney General William Tong this week joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing a second lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block new restrictions on federal funding that supports survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes.
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10/1/2025
Governing Magazine Names Attorney General Tong Among 2025 Public Officials of the Year
Governing Magazine has named Attorney General William Tong among its 2025 Public Officials of the Year.
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10/30/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces Next Steps in Grocery Pricing Inquiry
Attorney General William Tong sent a letter to five of the top food distributors with footprints in Connecticut, expanding the state’s inquiry into unaffordable grocery prices that have remained stubbornly high since initial spikes during the COVID pandemic.
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12/3/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces New Developments in Crackdown on Bootleg GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs
In a continuing crackdown on the sale of bootleg GLP-1 weight loss drugs, Attorney General William Tong this month sent cease and desist letters to weight loss spas in Avon, Brookfield and Danbury advertising non-FDA approved compounded GLP-1 weight loss drugs despite a state warning that such practices could violate the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act.
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8/18/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces Investigation Into AT&T Over Unauthorized Charges
Attorney General William Tong today announced an investigation into AT&T over unauthorized charges added to customer accounts. The civil investigation follows criminal charges filed against a former AT&T employee in Stafford, Connecticut alleged to have added unauthorized lines to customer accounts in a ploy to earn bonuses and commissions.
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11/19/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces $714,446 False Claims Settlement with Dentists Over Prohibited Patient Recruiting Fees
ttorney General William Tong today announced a $714,446 joint state and federal settlement with Dent Plus Family Dentistry, L&M Family Dentistry and owners Ivan Makar and Oleg Losin, resolving allegations that the dental practices violated state and federal False Claims Act statutes through prohibited fees paid to a “patient recruiting” company.
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12/17/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces $455,598 False Claims Settlement with Branford Nurse
Attorney General William Tong today announced a $455,598.31 settlement with Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Dayna L. Giordano and her medical office resolving allegations that Giordano violated the Connecticut False Claims Act by causing pharmacies to bill the Connecticut Medical Assistance Program for injectable specialty drugs that Giordano failed to administer to patients.
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12/4/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces Development in Generic Drug Price-Fixing Case
Attorney General William Tong today announced a significant development in one of the ongoing generic drug price-fixing cases, sharing that U.S. District Judge Shea Michael P. Shea dismissed a motion for summary judgment filed by the drugmakers seeking to toss key elements of the case.
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12/29/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces Agreement with Hartford Healthcare to Help Protect Against Cost Increases and Preserve Professional Freedom for Physicians in Acquisition of Prospect Medical's Manchester Memorial and Rockville General Hospitals
Attorney General William Tong announced today that the Office of the Attorney General has reached an agreement with Hartford Healthcare to help protect against rising healthcare costs and ensure professional freedom for doctors to choose where they work as Hartford Healthcare acquires Manchester Memorial and Rockville General hospitals from bankrupt Prospect Medical.
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10/16/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces Challenge to EPA's Attacks on Affordable Clean Energy for Low-Income Households
Attorney General William Tong announced today Connecticut, 21 other states and the District of Columbia are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for illegally ending a $7 billion program that lowers energy costs and pollution by bringing solar energy to more than 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities across the country.
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10/10/2025
Attorney General Tong Announces Antitrust Settlement with Moving and Storage Companies Over Alleged Bid-Rigging
Attorney General William Tong today announced a $90,000 settlement with Fallon Moving & Storage, Inc. and Commercial Moving Services, LLC, resolving an investigation initiated earlier this year into illegal bid-rigging on a state contract for moving and storage services in violation of the Connecticut Antitrust Act.
