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  Category: Department of Justice Press Releases


AG Jennings Announces Cooperation Agreements and Settlements with Heritage and Apotex totaling $49.1 Million

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Friday, November 1, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings today joined a coalition of 50 states and territories announcing two significant cooperation agreements and settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex totaling $49.1 million to resolve allegations that both companies engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous generic prescription […]




AG Jennings resuspends financial advisor for illegally accessing former clients’ account information

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, October 28, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings has secured a six-month suspension from a former Delaware investment adviser for viewing current financial account information of former Delaware clients while unregistered. The Investor Protection Unit (the “Unit”), the state securities regulator for Delaware, received a complaint from a former client of Robert Brandon Prettyman, an unregistered investment advisor that the Unit had previously suspended for making false statements […]




DOJ secures more than two decades of prison time in cold case murder

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, October 28, 2024

A Wilmington man has been sentenced to 23 years for convictions stemming from the 2018 murder of Richard Young. On October 18, Nasir Anderson, 24, was sentenced to 102 years in prison, suspended after 23 years followed by descending levels of probation for convictions of Murder Second Degree, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a […]




AG Jennings issues open letter to Delaware landlords urging Delaware Landlord/Tenant Code Compliance

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings‘ Fraud and Consumer Protection Division has issued an open letter to Delaware landlords regarding commonly seen illegal lease provisions in residential leases. The letter puts landlords on notice that their residential leases must comply with Delaware’s Residential Landlord/Tenant Code. Attorney General Jennings stated: “Landlords have tremendous power over their tenants. The […]




DOJ secures prison time for former trooper

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A Delaware State Trooper has been sentenced for multiple felony convictions, including Delaware’s first-ever use of a new Deprivation of Civil Rights statute passed by lawmakers last year, for brutally assaulting a 15-year-old victim and fracturing his orbital socket in response to an apparent prank. On October 15, 2024, Walters, 30, was sentenced to one […]







  Category: Department of Justice Press Releases

AG Jennings Announces Cooperation Agreements and Settlements with Heritage and Apotex totaling $49.1 Million

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Friday, November 1, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings today joined a coalition of 50 states and territories announcing two significant cooperation agreements and settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex totaling $49.1 million to resolve allegations that both companies engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous generic prescription […]




AG Jennings resuspends financial advisor for illegally accessing former clients’ account information

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, October 28, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings has secured a six-month suspension from a former Delaware investment adviser for viewing current financial account information of former Delaware clients while unregistered. The Investor Protection Unit (the “Unit”), the state securities regulator for Delaware, received a complaint from a former client of Robert Brandon Prettyman, an unregistered investment advisor that the Unit had previously suspended for making false statements […]




DOJ secures more than two decades of prison time in cold case murder

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Monday, October 28, 2024

A Wilmington man has been sentenced to 23 years for convictions stemming from the 2018 murder of Richard Young. On October 18, Nasir Anderson, 24, was sentenced to 102 years in prison, suspended after 23 years followed by descending levels of probation for convictions of Murder Second Degree, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a […]




AG Jennings issues open letter to Delaware landlords urging Delaware Landlord/Tenant Code Compliance

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Attorney General Kathy Jennings‘ Fraud and Consumer Protection Division has issued an open letter to Delaware landlords regarding commonly seen illegal lease provisions in residential leases. The letter puts landlords on notice that their residential leases must comply with Delaware’s Residential Landlord/Tenant Code. Attorney General Jennings stated: “Landlords have tremendous power over their tenants. The […]




DOJ secures prison time for former trooper

Department of Justice Press Releases | Date Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A Delaware State Trooper has been sentenced for multiple felony convictions, including Delaware’s first-ever use of a new Deprivation of Civil Rights statute passed by lawmakers last year, for brutally assaulting a 15-year-old victim and fracturing his orbital socket in response to an apparent prank. On October 15, 2024, Walters, 30, was sentenced to one […]