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  Category: Consumer Protection


Delaware Participates In $100 Million Settlement with Barclays for Manipulating LIBOR

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, August 8, 2016

Manipulation of benchmark interest rate hurt government and not-for-profit organizations in Delaware and across the country when they invested   Delaware and other states announced a $100 million settlement with Barclays Bank PLC and Barclays Capital Inc. for fraudulent and anticompetitive conduct involving the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). This is a […]



Drug Company To Pay Consumers And State For Precluding Competition

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Thursday, August 4, 2016

Anticompetitive Conduct Delayed Generic Competition, Causing Consumers And The State To Pay More For Provigil A settlement between Delaware, 47 other states, the District of Columbia and the drug company Cephalon could result in up to $250,000 to be paid to Delaware consumers to resolve claims the company delayed generic versions of Provigil from entering […]



DOJ Asks Court to Ban Company From Delaware For Defrauding Businesses

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Date Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2016

The Department of Justice’s Consumer Protect Unit has filed a complaint in the Court of Chancery to prohibit a Michigan-based company from conducting business in Delaware. DOJ claims the principals of the company, The Mandatory Poster Agency, Inc. d/b/a Delaware Council for Corporations, are the same three men who, under the name of a different […]



Brothers From Dover Sentenced to Prison For Drug Activity

Consumer Protection | Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Date Posted: Friday, July 8, 2016

Others sentenced for home improvement fraud, rape, assault, and robbery Following are recent results obtained in cases pursued by the attorneys, investigators and staff of the Delaware Department of Justice: Two brothers both received significant prison sentences for their roles as main players in a group selling drugs out of the Capitol Park neighborhood near […]



Delaware Consumers To Be Compensated Under Settlements With Volkswagen Over Emissions Fraud

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | News | Date Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2016

VW required to repurchase or fix falsely-marketed diesel vehicles, provide restitution and address environmental harms; Attorneys General obtain civil penalties   An agreement with Volkswagen to resolve a series of state and federal settlements will provide cash payments to affected consumers, require Volkswagen to buy back or modify certain VW and Audi 2.0-liter diesel vehicles, […]






  Category: Consumer Protection

Delaware Participates In $100 Million Settlement with Barclays for Manipulating LIBOR

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, August 8, 2016

Manipulation of benchmark interest rate hurt government and not-for-profit organizations in Delaware and across the country when they invested   Delaware and other states announced a $100 million settlement with Barclays Bank PLC and Barclays Capital Inc. for fraudulent and anticompetitive conduct involving the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). This is a […]



Drug Company To Pay Consumers And State For Precluding Competition

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Thursday, August 4, 2016

Anticompetitive Conduct Delayed Generic Competition, Causing Consumers And The State To Pay More For Provigil A settlement between Delaware, 47 other states, the District of Columbia and the drug company Cephalon could result in up to $250,000 to be paid to Delaware consumers to resolve claims the company delayed generic versions of Provigil from entering […]



DOJ Asks Court to Ban Company From Delaware For Defrauding Businesses

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Date Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2016

The Department of Justice’s Consumer Protect Unit has filed a complaint in the Court of Chancery to prohibit a Michigan-based company from conducting business in Delaware. DOJ claims the principals of the company, The Mandatory Poster Agency, Inc. d/b/a Delaware Council for Corporations, are the same three men who, under the name of a different […]



Brothers From Dover Sentenced to Prison For Drug Activity

Consumer Protection | Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Date Posted: Friday, July 8, 2016

Others sentenced for home improvement fraud, rape, assault, and robbery Following are recent results obtained in cases pursued by the attorneys, investigators and staff of the Delaware Department of Justice: Two brothers both received significant prison sentences for their roles as main players in a group selling drugs out of the Capitol Park neighborhood near […]



Delaware Consumers To Be Compensated Under Settlements With Volkswagen Over Emissions Fraud

Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | News | Date Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2016

VW required to repurchase or fix falsely-marketed diesel vehicles, provide restitution and address environmental harms; Attorneys General obtain civil penalties   An agreement with Volkswagen to resolve a series of state and federal settlements will provide cash payments to affected consumers, require Volkswagen to buy back or modify certain VW and Audi 2.0-liter diesel vehicles, […]