(AUGUSTA) As more is becoming known about the circumstances that led up to a husband shooting his wife and three children before killing himself, one reported detail is all too familiar to police, prosecutors and advocates for victims of domestic violence: threats of suicide preceded the murders.
AUGUSTA ? Attorney General Janet Mills is reminding Mainers about the Consumer Information and Mediation Service, operated by the Maine Attorney General?s Office. Mainers who have questions about consumer issues or are worried they may be the target of a scam can call the Consumer Mediation and Information Service for assistance, free of charge.
(AUGUSTA) Time is running out for Maine consumers to file a claim in the $310 million DRAM Settlement. The Settlement involves 12 Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) manufacturers over claims of price fixing. Consumers and businesses can file a claim if their purchases were between 1998 and 2002.
(Augusta, Me) Based on communications with law enforcement and substance abuse professionals about a spate of overdoses this week, Maine Attorney General Janet Mills is warning that a fatal mix of heroin, caffeine and fentanyl, and a new admixture called acetyl fentanyl, appear to be causing users to overdose more quickly than in cases of straight heroin. The dangers of these chemicals cannot be underestimated or overstated.
(AUGUSTA, ME) Attorney General Janet T. Mills today announced a $550 million joint state-federal settlement with mortgage lender and servicer SunTrust Mortgage Inc. to address mortgage origination, servicing, and foreclosure abuses. SunTrust is a regional company, operating largely in the southeastern states, though the company did have some Maine customers.
AUGUSTA ? Attorney General Janet T. Mills announced today that Nathanial Dupuis, 41, of Gray, Maine, was sentenced in Kennebec County Superior Court to 4 years with all but 18 months suspended to the Department of Corrections for a series of state tax crimes. The Court also imposed 2 years of probation and ordered Dupuis to pay $86,476 in restitution.
(AUGUSTA) Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills is warning Maine businesses to be aware of a phone scam that claims to be from the Maine Office of Tourism. The callers claim to be selling advertising in a publication of the Maine Office of Tourism and then demand an upfront, cash payment be paid over the phone immediately. These calls are not from the Maine Office of Tourism or any of their sub-contractors and do not appear to be legitimate.
(AUGUSTA) ?Maybe there was something I could have done.? This is the all-too-familiar comment heard in the wake of Maine?s twelve domestic violence homicides in 2013 and it has led Maine?s top experts on domestic abuse to encourage more Mainers to look for the signs of abuse and to connect victims and their families with assistance when they see it.
AUGUSTA ? Are you interested in helping Maine consumers recoup lost money? The Attorney General?s Office is recruiting volunteer Consumer Complaint Mediators for the Consumer Mediation Service. Training will begin on May 27th. The Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General?s Office offers, free of charge, this complaint resolution program for the use of Maine consumers, staffed by trained volunteers.
AUGUSTA ? An Aroostook County trial jury today convicted Stephen Tucker, Sr., age 63, of Monticello, of theft of more than $10,000 in workers? compensation benefits.