(AUGUSTA) The United States Supreme Court has denied a request to hear a case sought by the LePage Administration to drop MaineCare coverage for 19 and 20 year olds. The order released on Monday morning denied certiorari in the case of Mayhew v. Burwell.

Attorney General Janet T. Mills has opposed the effort by the LePage administration in this case, citing a lack of legal merit in their position. This is the third time the Administration?s efforts have been rebuffed in a legal setting.

AUGUSTA, Maine ? Attorney General Janet Mills announced today that Brian Morse, 54, of Kennebunk, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve two years in prison for Failing to File and Pay Maine Income Taxes for 2006 to 2008 and 2010, all Class C offenses. This was Morse?s third conviction for violating Maine?s income tax laws. He was previously convicted of failing to pay taxes in December 2002 for years 1996 to 2001 and again in March 2007 for years 2002 to 2005.

AUGUSTA - Attorney General Janet T. Mills, together with law enforcement partners in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission, have jointly filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against four phony cancer charities, Cancer Fund of America, Inc., Children?s Cancer Fund of America, Inc., Cancer Support Services, Inc., and The Breast Cancer Society, Inc., and their operators for allegedly scamming more than $187 million from consumers throughout the country.

(AUGUSTA) Attorney General Janet Mills announced today that John M. Look, 52, of Minot, has been sentenced in Cumberland County Superior Court for conduct related to his theft of funds that rightly belonged to his disabled brother.

(AUGUSTA) Attorney General Janet Mills praised the work of the Office of the Attorney General to ensure that the rules that state agencies write are of the highest quality and legally defensible. In response to the Governor?s call to eliminate the role of the Office of the Attorney General in approving agency rules, Attorney General Mills issued the following statement:

AUGUSTA, Me ? Attorney General Janet Mills announced today that she has filed a complaint in Portland Superior Court under the Maine Civil Rights Act against Benjamin W. Bean and Charles J. Bean for an assault they perpetrated against a Portland man on April 19.

(AUGUSTA) Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills is sponsoring a Public Service Announcement (PSA) campaign aimed at Maine?s heroin epidemic. The one minute PSA [ https://vimeo.com/41740655 ] features Henry ?Skip? Gates, a resident of Skowhegan. His son William Gates was an accomplished downhill ski-racer and a molecular genetics student at the University of Vermont at the time of his fatal heroin overdose in 2009.

(AUGUSTA) Attorney General Janet T. Mills announced today that the Maine Office of the Attorney General has settled a case against National Bath Systems, LLC, d/b/a Bath Fitter (?Bath Fitter?), of Portland, Maine. The complaint alleged violations of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act.

AUGUSTA, Maine ? Attorney General Janet Mills announced today that a Cumberland County jury found John M. Kendall, 66, of Falmouth, guilty after a six-day trial on numerous counts related to tax evasion. Assistant Attorney General Gregg Bernstein tried the case for the State of Maine. Kendall committed these crimes in his capacity as President of Chipco International, a now closed poker chip manufacturing company which did business in Yarmouth.

(AUGUSTA) The Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued an advisory opinion today that the Attorney General has the authority to direct litigation on behalf of the State of Maine in the vast majority of cases.

?We are pleased with the Opinion of the Justices. There are no surprises here. The statute and the common law are clear. The Justices upheld and reinforced the independence, integrity and professionalism of the Office of the Maine Attorney General, including the ability to oppose a position that is not in the public interest,? stated Attorney General Janet T. Mills.