Joining a bipartisan effort to ensure that any future federal data breach notification or data security law is effective and provides consumers with the best protection, Attorney General Tim Fox today joined a multistate letter to the U.S. Congress emphasizing the importance of maintaining states’...
On Thursday, Columbia Falls resident Salvador Maldonado-Medina pled guilty in Lewis & Clark County District Court to felony theft and employer misconduct for receiving Montana Workers’ Compensation benefits while working after claiming to be injured at one of his businesses, when in fact he was...
Montana’s Tim Fox has again been appointed to the executive committee of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). Newly elected NAAG President Marty Jackley of South Dakota made the appointment and praised Fox for his leadership. “Tim is a strong leader amongst state attorneys general...
Counties, farmers, ranchers, other groups support multi-state legal challenge Today, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox and 12 other states filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) over the new regulation broadly expanding the definition of...
On July 8, the Montana Department of Justice’s Motor Vehicle Division will be implementing new regulations that will affect Montana drivers renewing their commercial driver’s license (CDL). When renewing a Montana CDL, license holders will need to present proof of U.S. citizenship or authorized presence beginning...
At a ceremony this morning in Helena, the Montana Law Enforcement Academy graduated 45 new officers who will serve 24 different agencies across the state. The Montana Law Enforcement Academy is operated by the Montana Department of Justice, providing basic and advanced training for state,...
Montana and ten other states filed amicus brief asking the court to strike down Arizona ordinance Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Ninth Circuit ruling and struck down a discriminatory Arizona town sign ordinance. Montana Attorney General Tim Fox applauded the ruling in Reed v. Town of...
Pleads guilty to stealing workers’ compensation benefits for six years Last week, Utah resident Benjie Leroy Christensen plead guilty in Lewis & Clark County District Court to felony theft for receiving Montana workers’ compensation permanent disability payments for six years while he was actually performing construction...
Attorney General Tim Fox, together with state law enforcement partners in every other state, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission, have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against four phony cancer charities and their operators, who allegedly scammed more than $187 million from...
Attorney General Fox announced today that his Office of Consumer Protection—along with the Attorneys General of the other 49 States and the District of Columbia, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Communications Commission—reached settlements with Sprint Corporation (“Sprint”) and Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon...