BREWER - Attorney General Aaron M. Frey participated in Governor Janet Mills's third Opioid Summit today, speaking live from the Bangor Area Recovery Network (BARN) center in Brewer. The attorney generals remarks focused on efforts to prevent overdose deaths, to disrupt the flow of fentanyl into Maine, and to expand access to treatment.
AUGUSTA - Today, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to voting rights in their opinion on Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, consolidated with Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee.
AUGUSTA - Attorney General Aaron M. Frey lauded the passage and signing of a bill to create the Maine Retirement Savings Program. The bill, LD 1622, was sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Eloise Vitelli and will receive initial funding from settlement funds obtained by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG). It will create a private-public partnership to enable Maine workers who do not have retirement savings plans through their employer to contribute to a Roth IRA.
AUGUSTA - Governor Janet T. Mills has nominated Superior Court Justice Valerie Stanfill, of Wayne, as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Attorney General Aaron M. Frey issued the following statement praising the nomination:
Augusta - Attorney General Aaron M. Frey and Securities Administrator Judith Shaw are warning the public of a new phone scam from a caller claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service.
AUGUSTA - This afternoon, jurors found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts against him in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following statement in response to the verdict:
AUGUSTA - Attorney General Aaron Frey announced today that in the year since Maine recorded its first case of COVID-19, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has continued to work with Maine Revenue Services (MRS) to prosecute tax evaders and to ensure that all people pay their fair share of taxes.
From March 12, 2020, to March 8, 2021, the OAG working with MRS resolved 14 criminal prosecutions including:
AUGUSTA - Aaron M. Frey, of Bangor, was elected by a joint convention of the Maine Legislature to a second two-year term as Maine's 58th Attorney General today. At the joint convention, he was nominated by Senator Donna Bailey (D-Saco). Representative Teresa Pierce (D-Falmouth) seconded.
Attorney General Frey released the following statement following the election:
In response to a settlement announced by the U.S. Department of Justice with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family today, Maine Attorney General Aaron M. Frey released the following statement:
AUGUSTA - Attorney General Aaron M. Frey today announced that Maine has joined a multistate settlement with Anthem stemming from the massive 2014 data breach that involved the personal information of 78.8 million Americans. Through the settlement, Anthem has reached a resolution with the 43-state multistate coalition and California. Anthem has agreed to a series of data security and good governance provisions designed to strengthen its practices going forward. Maine will also receive resources for consumer protection activities through the settlement.