Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today that Montana will receive over $3.5 million in a multi-state settlement with Johnson & Johnson to resolve allegations the company manufactured, marketed and knowingly sold baby powder tainted with carcinogenic asbestos. Montana [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 21 other state attorneys general in sending a letter to President Biden in opposition to World Health Organization (WHO) agreements that would give the organization unprecedented and unconstitutional powers [...]
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement in response to Congressional approval of a bill that will ban TikTok in the United States if Chinese-owned ByteDance does not sell their stake of the platform:“I’m glad to [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general in demanding action from Bank of America to correct the company’s debanking policies and discriminatory behavior toward conservative and religious Americans. In a letter sent to [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 16 attorneys general in demanding answers from Wells Fargo Wednesday regarding the company’s debanking policies, which appear to extend the Biden administration’s woke agenda. In a letter to Wells [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general launched an investigation into BlackRock for potential conflicts of interest and the company’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments. In a letter sent to BlackRock fund directors [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is demanding answers from Google executives regarding the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) system “Gemini” as the system may violate Montana law by providing inaccurate information to users to fall in line with the tech [...]
HELENA - JPMorgan announced today they will withdraw from Climate Action 100+, an investor group pushing Environmental, Social, and Governance investments. Last year, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen sent a letter to 53 asset managers raising concerns that the asset [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen in a letter Saturday urged executives at Paramount Global and CBS Entertainment Group not to broadcast commercials from Temu – an online retail platform linked to the Chinese Communist Party – during Super [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced a $700 million agreement reached between state attorneys general and Google for anticompetitive practices related to its app store. Affected consumers will receive 90 percent of the settlement funds while the State [...]