AG Jennings Announces $49.5 Million Blackbaud Data Breach Settlement
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Attorney General Jennings announced today that Delaware has reached a multistate settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security practices and response to a 2020 ransomware event that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers across the United States. Under the settlement, Blackbaud has agreed to overhaul its data security and breach […]
AG Jennings Sues Amazon For Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Attorney General Jennings yesterday joined the Federal Trade Commission and 16 other state attorneys general to sue Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power. The FTC and its state partners say Amazon’s actions […]
AG Jennings Sues Avid Telecom Over Billions Of Illegal Robocalls
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Attorney General Kathy Jennings today sued Avid Telecom for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls. Avid Telecom sent or transmitted more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, and made 27 million calls to Delawareans. “We often think of illegal robocalls as a nuisance, but they […]
Top federal and state prosecutors form Delaware COVID-19 anti-fraud coalition
Captive | Captive Insurance | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Insurance Commissioner | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, April 24, 2020
Today, United States Attorney David C. Weiss and Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings announced the formation of a new Coronavirus (COVID-19) Anti-Fraud Coalition, aimed at better protecting the citizens of Delaware from criminal and civil fraud arising from the pandemic. The Coalition is comprised of local, state and federal agencies, investigators and prosecutors with significant […]
AG Jennings, DOJ Fight Corporate Abuse of Class Action Settlements
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Fraud | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, November 25, 2019
Delaware leads bipartisan coalition opposing attempt to weaponize class action settlements against state law enforcement actions Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Monday that Delaware has filed an amicus brief in a Minnesota federal court opposing a corporation’s attempt to weaponize a class action settlement against a parallel law enforcement action by the Minnesota Attorney General. […]
