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The New York utility provider Con Edison has agreed to pay $750,000 and implement a series of anti-harassment reforms to settle a lawsuit over claims it discriminated against its female and nonwhite employees

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday announced a bill to protect the state's consumers and small businesses from scams and deceptive practices from lenders, debt collectors and health care firms.

Twenty-two states are suing New York state, contending that a new law forcing energy companies to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage is unconstitutional

When SmileDirectClub shut down a year ago, scores of existing customers of the teeth-straightening company were left in limbo

PepsiCo won the dismissal of New York's lawsuit accusing the beverage and snack-food company of polluting the environment with single-use plastic packaging, as the judge criticized the state's attorney general, Letitia James, for bringing the case. Justice Emilio Colaiacovo of the state Supreme Court in Buffalo said on Thursday that James failed to show PepsiCo created a public nuisance and should have warned consumers about the health and environmental risks of plastics in more than 100 of its brands. James sued PepsiCo and its Frito-Lay unit last November, seeking to hold them liable for endangering Buffalo's water supply by generating 17% of the plastic waste found in and near the Buffalo River. She also said the defendants deceived the public about their efforts to fight plastics pollution.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug

A New York appeals court is set to hear arguments in former President Donald Trump’s fight to overturn a civil fraud judgment that could cost him close to half a billion dollars

Donald Trump's nearly USD 500 million civil fraud judgment, arguing there's «overwhelming evidence» to support a judge's finding that the former president lied for years about his wealth as he built his real estate empire. In paperwork filed ahead of oral arguments next month, New York Attorney General Letitia James' office said the current Republican nominee's appeal is awash in «meritless legal arguments» and ignores volumes of trial evidence showing that he and his co-defendants engaged in «fraud and illegality on an immense scale.» «On appeal, defendants tellingly ignore almost all their deceptions,» Assistant Solicitor General Daniel S Magy wrote in a 168-page submission to the state's mid-level appeals court known as the Appellate Division. Trump, his company and top executives including his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr «created and used financial statements rife with blatant misrepresentations and omissions to maintain loans worth more than half a billion dollars and to generate over USD 360 million in ill-gotten profits,» Magy wrote.

NovaTech and its married co-founders, saying they fraudulently raised over $650 million from more than 200,000 investors worldwide, including many Haitian-Americans. NovaTech and co-founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion allegedly promised investors their money would be safe, with Cynthia Petion assuring they would be «in profit from day one.» The SEC said the Petions instead used new money mainly to repay earlier investors and pay commissions to promoters, while siphoning millions of dollars for themselves. It said the scheme lasted for four years until NovaTech's May 2023 collapse.

The second phase of the civil trial against the National Rifle Association and its top executives is opening in New York

A cryptocurrency wallet associated with Genesis Trading has transferred approximately $720 million worth of Bitcoin to the Coinbase exchange over the past month, pointing to potential liquidations.

The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar agreed to a decade-long ban from managing money for New York not-for-profits after a jury found him liable in a scheme to have the influential gun rights organization bankroll a longtime chief execut...

New York's governor has signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive

Crypto exchange Gemini has reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and agreed to pay $50 million worth of digital assets to investors of its Gemini Earn program.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Friday her office has recovered $50 million from the cryptocurrency platform Gemini Trust to repay investors defrauded in its Gemini Earn program. James said Gemini, run by billionaire twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, will provide full recoveries to more than 230,000 Earn investors, including 29,000 in New York, and agreed to a ban on operating crypto lending programs in the state.

baby powder. This agreement comes after extensive scrutiny over claims that these products caused cancer.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing crypto trading firm NovaTech, now shuttered digital asset company AWS Mining, and at least two key promoters for reportedly defrauding investors out of $1 billion, court documents from the June 6 lawsuit reveal.

The owner of seven unlicensed cannabis shops in New York whose promotions included an Easter egg hunt has been fined more than $15 million

seven unlicensed cannabis shops in New York whose promotions included an Easter egg hunt has been fined more than $15 million after state officials complained he repeatedly ignored notices to stop operating without approval, authorities said. A state Supreme Court justice in Lyons, New York, imposed the fine against David Tulley on Wednesday. Acting Justice Richard Healy penalized Tulley 90% of his gross sales from February 2022 to May 2023 as well as $10,000 for each day he operated without licenses.