Attorney General Jennings helps secure $7.4 billion from Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Sackler family will pay up to $6.5 billion over 15 years; Purdue will pay nearly $900 million upon court approval Wilmington – Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings today announced that she, along with a bipartisan coalition of negotiating attorneys general, has reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of the Sackler family and […]
AG Jennings sues to stop unconstitutional executive order targeting birthright citizenship
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Delaware, 17 other states file suit to defend Americans’ 14th Amendment rights Attorney General Kathy Jennings today announced that Delaware and 17 other states—along with Washington, DC and San Francisco—are challenging President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, which violates the constitutional rights of all children born in the United States. “We are a nation of immigrants, and a nation […]
Brandon Wingo’s murderer sentenced to 23 years in prison
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025
Attorney General Kathy Jennings on Friday announced the sentencing of the man responsible for the broad daylight murder of 15-year-old Brandon Wingo. Diamonte Taylor, 27, of Wilmington, was sentenced to 23 years in prison, followed by descending levels of probation after pleading guilty to Murder 2nd Degree and Conspiracy 1st Degree. As a part of […]
DOJ secures prison sentence for fatal hit and run
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025
A Millsboro man has been sentenced following trial to 17.5 years in prison for multiple convictions, including Manslaughter, stemming from a fatal crash that took three lives and severely injured four others. On January 17, Jason Wilcox, 48, was sentenced in Sussex County Superior Court to 23 years in prison for convictions of Leaving the […]
AG Jennings joins $17 million settlement with Edward Jones
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Investor Protection | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Investor Protection Unit of the Delaware Department of Justice has joined a $17 million settlement with Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (“Edward Jones”) resulting from a multistate investigation into the broker-dealer’s supervisory failures. Customers paid front-loaded commissions for certain mutual fund shares despite later moving brokerage assets into fee-based investment advisory accounts. “We expect investment firms operating in Delaware to follow […]
