HELENA — The Montana Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) recently uncovered nearly $2.4 million in fraudulent Medicaid claims, the largest scheme the unit has uncovered in its history, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. On Sept. 15, [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a 25-state coalition asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to overturn Maine’s unconstitutional waiting-period law after a firearm purchase. The amicus brief was filed Monday in Andrea Beckwith v. [...]

HARLEM – The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer-involved critical incident that occurred in Harlem. On Thursday, September 24, at approximately 11:17 a.m., deputies with the Blaine County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance call at [...]

BOULDER – The Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) commissioned seven new troopers at the 84th Montana Highway Patrol Advanced Academy graduation ceremony today. For the first time, the graduation was held at MHP’s headquarters in Boulder. MHP Colonel Kurt Sager and [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a 22-state coalition of attorneys general in urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to strictly scrutinize Moody’s Corporation, a credit rating agency, after the agency published a report that relies [...]

HELENA — A Billings woman recently agreed to pay the state nearly $50,000 as part of a plea agreement resolving fraudulent Medicaid claims she filed for patients she never even saw and patients who stopped seeing her, Attorney General Austin [...]

HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is urging Montanans to check their eligibility for compensation for certain generic drug purchases and to submit a claim for compensation following a settlement with manufacturers who illegally conspired to raise the prices of [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen was a witness today before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance on the missing and murdered Indigenous persons (MMIP) crisis. During the hearing entitled “Missing and Murdered [...]

HELENA – The Montana Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of Jason Allen Miller for the attempted homicide of Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Lewis Johnson, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Miller appealed his June 2025 conviction for running over and seriously [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general launched an investigation into OpenAI over potential violations of consumer protection and data-privacy laws following a data breach by one of the company’s experimental models this summer. [...]