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• MEDIA ADVISORY

  Attorney General George Jepsen will participate Saturday Feb. 25, 2012 in the Men Make A Difference, Men Against Domestic Violence™ Celebrity Half-Time Basketball Game sponsored by Interval House, Connecticut’s largest domestic violence intervention and prevention agency.

• MEDIA ADVISORY

  Attorney General George Jepsen to address American Studies class at Hall High School.

• MEDIA ADVISORY

  News Conference 11:00 a.m. Monday, March 26, 2012 Webster Bank Arena, 600 Main Street, Bridgeport

• Attorney General Jepsen Asks Google for Meeting, Information on Glass Privacy Concerns

  Attorney General George Jepsen has asked Google to address concerns related to the company’s new head-mounted computing and recording device, Glass, and the potential impact the device may have on the privacy of Connecticut residents.

• Governor Malloy, Attorney General Jepsen and Consumer Counsel Katz announce agreement with Northeast Utilities and NSTAR

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy, Attorney General George Jepsen, and Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz today announced an agreement with Northeast Utilities and Boston-based NSTAR that guarantees substantial benefits to Connecticut residents from the proposed merger of the two utility companies.

• First Adoption Under New Law Takes Place in Willimantic

  Attorney General George Jepsen and Commissioner Joette Katz, Department of Children and Families, said an adoption of a teenage boy finalized Monday in the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters in Willimantic was the first under a new law that took effect Oct. 1.

• Gov. Malloy, Attorney General Jepsen Announce Allocation Of Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement Funds

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that Connecticut’s share of the $25 billion mortgage foreclosure servicing settlement will be spent to bolster and expand programs assisting Connecticut’s distressed homeowners.

• Federal Court Upholds Clean Air Rules Aimed at Reducing Greenhouse Gases Contributing to Global Warming

  Attorney General George Jepsen and state Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel Esty praised a federal appeals court decision today that upheld government standards regulating greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming.

• Court Orders Finalize $25 Billion National Mortgage Servicing Settlement Agreement

  Attorney General George Jepsen said Connecticut consumers will soon benefit from direct mortgage relief and new mortgage servicing standards under terms of the $25 billion national settlement agreement with the five largest mortgage servicers.

• Connecticut Receiving $6 Million From Abbott Laboratories Settlements Over Marketing of Depakote

  Attorney General George Jepsen said Connecticut will receive approximately $6 million from federal and state civil and criminal settlements announced today with Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories over allegations the company promoted sales and use of prescription drug Depakote for uses that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as safe and effective.

• Connecticut Joins Settlement Agreement With Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

  Attorney General George Jepsen said that Connecticut has joined with other states and the federal government to settle allegations that Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BIPI), paid kickbacks and engaged in off-label marketing campaigns that improperly promoted four drugs: Atrovent, Combivent, Micardis and Aggrenox.

• Media Advisory: News Conference on Mortgage Assistance Event

  U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, Attorney General George Jepsen and state Banking Commissioner Howard Pitkin will announce details of the third, state-sponsored homeowners’ mortgage assistance event scheduled for Tuesday, July 10 at the University of Connecticut Student Union in Storrs.

• Connecticut Joins Multistate Effort Pushing For Federal Standards on Methane Emissions

  Attorney General George Jepsen and state Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel C. Esty said Connecticut has joined six other states in notifying the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) they intend to sue, if necessary, to prompt agency action on methane gas emissions from new and existing sources of the greenhouse gas.

• Connecticut Benefits From Settlement With WellCare on Medicaid Fraud Charges

  Attorney General George Jepsen and Social Services Commissioner Roderick Bremby said Connecticut stands to receive $1.56 million from a Medicaid fraud settlement with WellCare, a Florida-based health maintenance organization.

• Connecticut Agencies Protest ISO New England Budget Increases

  Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority today filed a protest with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against ISO New England Inc.’s proposal to increase its budget, paid for by electric customers, by nearly 10 percent.