HELENA – A Big Horn County woman was ordered and agreed to pay $82,770 in restitution for financially exploiting her grandfather following a successful investigation and prosecution by the Montana Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Unit, Attorney General Austin Knudsen [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a lawsuit today against automotive manufacturer General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary OnStar for selling customers data without their consent. The company’s deceptive practices are a violation of Montana’s Unfair Trade Practices [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a lawsuit today against OpenAI for knowingly encouraging harmful behavior among children and teenagers and engaging in other deceptive practices through its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed in Lewis and Clark [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in urging the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to protect employees from being subjected to illegal trainings that encourage racial discrimination under the guise [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 21 state attorneys general in asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to scrutinize the China-founded technology company TP-Link Systems Inc. (TP-Link), as they seek conditional approval to sell new [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 31 state attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to overturn a lower court’s ruling that froze Taliban funds owed to the victims and [...]

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a lawsuit today against the China-founded technology company, TP-Link, for misleading Montanans and putting users’ personal information at risk of being shared with the Chinese government, a foreign adversary of the United [...]

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 [...]