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November 14, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a settlement with consumer lender MoneyLion after an investigation by the Colorado Department of Law found the company collected illegal membership fees from Colorado consumers tied to loans. The settlement includes $271,000 in restitution for Coloradans.

    

November 8, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today that his office reached a settlement with Omni Hotels that will end the chain’s practice of advertising room prices lower than the total cost including all required fees.

    

November 3, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today that state regulators with the Colorado Department of Law reached an agreement with Florida-based debt management company Touchstone Partners, Inc. over violations of the Colorado Debt Management Services Act. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will refund over $110,000 to consumers.

    

October 24, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Today, in a nationwide action led by Colorado, 42 attorneys general throughout the country sued Meta in federal and state courts alleging that the company knowingly designed and deployed harmful features on Instagram and its other social media platforms that purposefully addict children and teens. At the same time, Meta falsely assured the public that these features are safe and suitable for young users.

    

October 17, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today that Colorado reached a settlement with health care technology company Inmediata for their role in exposing the protected health information of approximately 1.5 million consumers, including nearly 10,000 Coloradans.

    

October 17, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser joined a coalition of 50 attorneys general announcing a $10 million settlement with payment processor ACI Worldwide over a 2021 testing error that led to the attempted unauthorized withdrawal of $2.3 billion from mortgage accounts. Colorado will receive over $300,000 from the settlement.

    

October 05, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser joined 49 other attorneys general in a settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security practices and inadequate response to a 2020 ransomware event that affected thousands of nonprofits and millions of consumers across the country. Under the settlement, Blackbaud agreed to overhaul its data security and breach notification practices and make a $49.5 million payment to states. Colorado will receive over $785,000 from the settlement.

    

September 22, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today a settlement with Broomfield Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC., for failing to protect the personal data of hundreds of patients and employees before and during a 2021 data breach.

    

September 21, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that hotel chain and hospitality company Choice Hotels International, Inc. agreed in a settlement to clearly and distinctly inform consumers of any room rates, mandatory fees, and previously-hidden prices, such as resort fees, in all future advertisements.

    

September 12, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — With student loan repayment restarting next month, and interest already accruing again as of Sept. 1, Attorney General Phil Weiser issued a warning to consumers to be vigilant against potential student loan-related scams and fraud.

    

September 11, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today dual settlements with Tempoe, LLC, resolving both a multistate investigation and a Colorado compliance examination into the company’s advertising and leasing to consumers through retailers across the country.

    

September 08, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that he reached an agreement in principle with Kroger that will require the grocery chain to pay $1.37 billion to participating states and local governments for its role in the opioid crisis.

    

September 07, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — A bipartisan group of 52 attorneys general announced an agreement with Google arising out of the company’s anticompetitive conduct involving the Google Play Store, according to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.

    

August 30, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today a settlement reached between his office and Parking Revenue Recovery Services, Inc. (PRRS) after an investigation found the Aurora-based company illegally collected or attempted to collect on fines for parking that was already paid for or were incurred by another vehicle owner.

    

August 28, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today that his office, along with five other attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission, reached a settlement agreement with Roomster Corp., which runs a website and app for people looking for roommates. The attorneys general and the federal government reached the settlement after charges that the company purchased fake reviews to lure customers to pay for the service, which also frequently listed phony living arrangements on websites like Craigslist.

    

August 4, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — olorado Attorney General Phil Weiser released the following statement regarding a federal judge’s opinion allowing a multistate Google antitrust lawsuit to go to trial:

    

August 2, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today that his office won a court ruling late last week ordering an Aurora-based company, PropDoks, and its owner, Erdis Moore, III, to temporarily halt operations at its Denver storefront after an investigation found the company engaged in fraudulent and deceptive trade practices. The ruling also froze company assets.

    

July 26, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today joined a bipartisan multistate coalition of 22 attorneys general announcing his opposition to a proposed class action settlement that fails to adequately hold accountable the 3M Company for contaminating Americans’ drinking water supply.

    

July 25, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser applauded today’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Education will deliver $130 million in automatic loan forgiveness for 7,400 students who attended Colorado-based locations of CollegeAmerica between January 1, 2006, and July 1, 2020.

    

July 20, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Cornerstone Doc. Prep. LLC, a dissolved and unregistered debt management servicer in Colorado, will provide full restitution to 167 Colorado consumers after the company used deceptive marketing practices to seemingly guarantee substantial student loan forgiveness.

    

July 13, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today a settlement reached with Walmart over the company’s failure to ensure the price customers paid for its products matched the price listed on the shelf. This settlement is part of a partnership between Weiser and Attorney General Aaron Ford of Nevada.

    

July 12, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced through a series of letters to businesses, sent this week, that the Colorado Department of Law will begin enforcing the recently enacted Colorado Privacy Act. The new data privacy law went into effect on July 1.

    

July 11, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — With Taylor Swift set to rock the area this weekend, Attorney General Phil Weiser issued a public advisory to remind all Coloradans about state law governing tickets sales, and to inform consumers about how to protect themselves and their wallets from deceptive sales tactics and scammers selling fake tickets to live events. Weiser’s office is receiving reports that scammers are trying to take advantage of fans for the summer’s biggest concerts, including those trying to buy tickets to Taylor Swift’s concerts in Denver.

    

July 1, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today reminded Colorado consumers, along with businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations that the Colorado Privacy Act is in effect starting today.

    

May 23, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today sued Michael D. Lansky, LLC, which does business under the name Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky, and its vice president Stacey S. Reeves, for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people and violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and other federal and state telemarketing and consumer laws. Avid Telecom sent or transmitted more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. Nearly 148 million of those calls were to numbers in Colorado between December 2018 and January 2023.

    

May 8, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office secured a series of settlements with more than $2.87 million in restitution for 3,550 Colorado vehicle owners. These consumers were entitled restitution because they did not receive their full guaranteed automobile protection (GAP) benefits under Colorado law.

    

May 4, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that consumers who were tricked by TurboTax’s owner Intuit into paying for free tax services will begin receiving checks from a $141 million multistate settlement announced in May 2022, which includes more than $2.7 million for Coloradans.

    

April 24, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office reached a settlement protecting residents from predatory lending practices, ousting a predatory lender from the state and securing $275,000 in restitution for Coloradans.

    

April 12, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — With the federal tax filing deadline approaching, Attorney General Phil Weiser today issued a consumer alert warning Coloradans to be on the lookout for scams and other fraud related to taxes and tax filing.

    

March 24, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — With the federal tax filing deadline approaching, Attorney General Phil Weiser today issued a consumer alert warning Coloradans to be on the lookout for scams and other fraud related to taxes and tax filing.

    

March 15, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — The Colorado Attorney General’s Office filed the finalized Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) Rules with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office this week, following completion of a review confirming the rules are legal and constitutional.

    

March 8, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today released a first-of-its-kind report that highlights how the internet, and social media platforms in particular, are used for illicit drug activity and offers recommendations to address the flow of illicit drugs that, too often, include deadly amounts of fentanyl.

    

March 7, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that, building off a one-year pilot program, the Department of Law is establishing a new consumer complaint referral program that will seek to resolve disputes between consumers and businesses through informal negotiations overseen by the department.

    

March 6, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today kicked off National Consumer Protection Week by unveiling the list of the top 10 consumer complaints and inquiries his office received in 2022, which included retail sales, home services and repair schemes, and automotive sales and services.

    

March 6, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Amid the ongoing youth mental health crisis, Attorney General Phil Weiser today led a coalition of 46 attorneys general in asking a state court to order social media company TikTok, Inc. to fully comply with an ongoing investigation into whether the company violated consumer protection laws.

    

February 22, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today sent a letter to AmeriGas asking the company about numerous complaints from Colorado consumers who reported that the company has been unable or unwilling to service their propane tanks.

    

February 14, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today joined state legislators and consumer health advocates at the State Capitol in support of Senate Bill 23-093, legislation that would provide Coloradans with additional consumer protections from high interest rates for medical debt and confusing debt collection practices that lead to long-lasting debt and financial instability.

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January 31, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced the appointments of Shannon Wells Stevenson as solicitor general, and Nathan Blake as deputy attorney general of the Consumer Protection Section in the Colorado Department of Law.

    

January 24, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit challenging Google’s dominant grip on the online advertising industry which allows the company to dictate how digital ads are sold and the terms under which its rivals can compete, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today.

    

January 17, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Flatirons, a Colorado-based medical billing company, refunded about 40 Coloradans after sending deceptive billing notices that stated they were “not a bill” but expected consumers to pay.

    

January 4, 2023 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office secured $4 million in refunds for Colorado borrowers who were entitled to refunds of GAP fees from Bellco and Canvas credit unions.

    

December 28, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced the formation of a statewide taskforce to provide greater coordination among law enforcement to identify, disrupt, and prosecute organized criminal rings that steal goods from retailers and resell them through online marketplaces.

    

December 19, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — As families and airlines nationwide prepare for the bustling holiday travel season, Attorney General Phil Weiser is leading a bipartisan coalition of 34 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to strengthen protections for airline consumers and provide meaningful relief to those whose flights are unexpectedly canceled or significantly delayed.

    

December 14, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office has secured $200,000 in refunds for the 262 Colorado customers wronged by Americor and Credit9’s financial practices.

    

December 12, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that he has finalized agreements with CVS and Walgreens for their roles in the opioid crisis. Under today’s agreements, CVS will pay $5 billion, and Walgreens will pay $5.7 billion, totaling $10.7 billion nationwide. Colorado’s share of funds from these settlements is over $150 million.

    

December 8, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser today urged a Washington State court judge to block Albertsons’ $4 billion payout to its investors while the company’s merger with Kroger is under federal and state regulatory review.

    

December 1, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a multistate settlement with CarMax Auto Superstores, Inc., requiring the used car dealer to disclose open safety recalls to consumers before they buy a car. The settlement stems from an investigation opened due to concerns that consumers were not aware of unrepaired and potentially serious safety recalls in purchased used vehicles.

    

November 15, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that he has reached a settlement with Walmart to resolve claims that the company contributed to the opioid addiction crisis by failing to appropriately oversee the dispensing of opioids at its stores.

    

November 14, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado, along with 39 other attorneys general, has reached a $391.5 million nationwide settlement with Google over its location tracking practices relating to Google Account settings. This is the largest multistate attorney general privacy settlement in the history of the U.S. Colorado will receive $8,326,875 from the settlement.

    

November 10, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that the Colorado Department of Law filed charges against an Aurora woman for overbilling Medicaid for home healthcare services.

    

November 09, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — AAttorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Adam Shryock, founder of fake breast cancer charity Boobies Rock, was sentenced to two years in Denver County Jail for contempt of court.

    

October 20, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — A Denver District Court judge sentenced Larry Perez to 18 months in the Denver County Jail on Friday for violating a 2019 order banning him from the food truck industry, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today. In a related case, the judge also ordered Manuel Perez, Larry’s father, and his business Denver Restaurant Equipment, to pay $75,000 to the State for helping his son violate the court’s orders.

    

October 14, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser released the following statement regarding the proposed merger between Kroger, the parent company of King Soopers, and Albertsons, which operates Safeway stores in Colorado:

    

September 8, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado will receive more than $1 million after an optical lens company paid providers kickbacks to refer patients to the company, resulting in the submission of false claims to the Colorado Medicaid program.

    

August 31, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser is urging Congress to authorize state attorneys general to enforce state and federal consumer protection laws governing the airline industry. Weiser led a bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general in sending a letter this week to Congress underlining U.S. Department of Transportation’s lack of action in response to consumer complaints about the airline industry.

    

August 30, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser applauded the announcement today that the U.S. Department of Education is forgiving the federal student loans of more than 79,000 Westwood College students nationwide—including 5,440 Colorado borrowers—after the school misled students about employment and salary prospects, transferability of credits, and its private institutional loan.

    

August 24, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser released the following statement regarding the White House announcement on student loan debt forgiveness:

    

August 16, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser applauded the announcement today that the U.S. Department of Education is forgiving the federal student loans of more than 208,000 ITT Technical Institute students nationwide—including 2,440 Colorado borrowers—after the school misled students about the value of an ITT degree.

    

August 03, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — The statewide grand jury indicted Jeremy Carter, 42, of Fort Morgan on 33 counts of felony theft for allegedly taking payments from clients throughout Colorado to build pole barns and failing to complete the projects, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today.

    

August 2, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today that bankrupt opioid manufacturer Mallinckrodt will pay Colorado $18 million for its role in fueling the opioid epidemic.

    

August 2, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado is joining a nationwide anti-robocall litigation task force of 50 attorneys general to investigate and take legal action against the telecommunications companies responsible for bringing a majority of foreign robocalls into the United States. This bipartisan nationwide task force has one goal: to cut down on illegal robocalls.

    

August 1, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Nearly 7,000 Coloradans will soon receive checks in the mail from a settlement earlier this year that the Colorado Attorney General’s Office reached with Navient, a student loan servicer that used widespread unfair, deceptive, and predatory loan servicing practices.

    

July 26, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today released the following statement regarding progress toward a $4.25 billion nationwide opioid agreement framework with Teva Pharmaceuticals.

    

July 22, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a $30,000 data breach settlement with Savory Spice Shop, a company based in Denver that failed to safeguard the payment card information of 13,888 Colorado customers and waited months to notify them that their information had been compromised.

    

July 5, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado recovered nearly $5 million in a multistate settlement with Mallinckrodt for the underpayment of Medicaid drug rebates.

    

June 23, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser released the following statement regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to order JUUL to stop selling e-cigarettes on the U.S. market.

    

June 23, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Red Rocks Credit Union refunded Coloradans more than $300,000 after the credit union failed to return money consumers were entitled to under state law for unearned guaranteed automobile protection premiums.

    

June 22, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Carnival, a cruise-based travel agency, will pay $24,752.87 to the state of Colorado in a $1.25 million multistate settlement after a 2019 data breach compromised the personal information of 3,037 Colorado residents. The company also agreed to implement additional data security safeguards to protect consumers’ information in the future.

    

June 2, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today joined 40 other attorneys general in applauding the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing work to combat robocalls, and in pledging to make a good faith effort to join an information-sharing agreement with the FCC.

    

May 20, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced Pfizer will refund $107,174.82 to approximately 1,500 Colorado consumers after it failed to honor coupons for three medications. Colorado collaborated with Vermont, Arizona, and Kansas to reach this settlement.

    

May 19, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that the Colorado Department of Law has filed charges against a Colorado Springs woman for submitting Medicaid claims and being paid for psychological testing services that never happened.

    

May 13, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Approximately 40,000 Comcast customers can switch without penalty to a new plan that does not include a monthly $9.95 fee for high-definition television service under an agreement Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today.

    

May 4, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office secured $2,574,985.89 for tens of thousands of low-income Coloradans and military members from Intuit Inc., the owner of TurboTax, for deceiving consumers into paying for tax services that should have been free.

    

April 28, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today joined a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general to call on the U.S. Department of Education to cancel the federal student loan debt of thousands of students who attended schools operated by the for-profit company Education Corporation of America (ECA) from June 2016 through its abrupt closure in December 2018.

    

March 29, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that a Broomfield-based magazine subscription company will stop its deceptive trade practices and pay $250,000 to the state of Colorado after misleading consumers into subscribing to its “Jackpot Journal.”

    

March 23, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — DISH Network will no longer charge consumers an unnecessary HD fee under a settlement reached with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office announced today. In some cases, Coloradans could save as much as $120 a year on their bills because of this action.

    

March 14, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a settlement was reached with One Connection LLC owner, Maleni Munguia and her employee, Noely Diaz, after an investigation by the Consumer Fraud Unit of the Colorado Department of Law uncovered evidence that Munguia and Diaz had been unlawfully practicing immigration and family law without a license.

    

March 08, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate Frontier Airlines concerning flight change policies and customer service practices in light of the recent announcement of a proposed merger between Frontier and Spirit Airlines.

    

March 7, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today kicked off National Consumer Protection Week by unveiling the list of the top 10 consumer complaints and inquiries his office received in 2021, which included unemployment insurance scams, retail sales related to COVID-19, and automotive sales and services.

    

February 3, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that he is seeking a court order to stop the owner of a Colorado Springs-based company from practicing law without a license and deceptively advertising the business is qualified to provide family and immigration legal services.

    

January 13, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, will provide debt relief to 1,339 Colorado student loan borrowers totaling more than $35 million, and pay $260 each in restitution to 6,844 Colorado borrowers after widespread unfair, deceptive, and predatory student loan servicing practices.

    

January 10, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today urged the Federal Communications Commission to help stem the tide of foreign-based illegal robocalls that attempt to scam Americans.

    

January 4, 2022 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado stands to receive its maximum share of funding from legal settlements reached with Johnson & Johnson and the nation’s three largest drug distribution companies that fueled the opioid crisis, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today. With all 64 counties and nearly 100% of the municipalities needed signed onto the settlements and a joint framework for distributing opioid dollars throughout the state, Colorado is set to receive approximately $385 million when the settlements are finalized in 2022.

    

December, 17, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — The statewide grand jury indicted four individuals and a Wheat Ridge-based company, Microforce, LLC, on five counts of felony theft for deceptively marketing and selling a disinfecting service with a product they knew could not kill the Coronavirus and prevent surface recontamination during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    

November 18, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that the state has joined a multistate investigation into alleged willful practices by Facebook that harmed children.

    

November 8, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced Colorado-based SEMA Construction will update its data security practices and pay more than $63,000 after it failed to protect the personal information of nearly 2,000 Colorado employees and residents.

    

October 27, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that Westerra Credit Union is refunding Colorado borrowers after failing to return GAP fees to consumers.

    

October 7, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — In the wake of U.S. Senate hearings about social media and risks to our nation’s youth, Attorneys General Phil Weiser of Colorado and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania are urging Congress to explore legislation that would create a comprehensive framework to oversee and regulate the conduct of major social media companies.

    

September 28, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that the student loan servicer that handles the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, agreed to comply with a state law requiring consumer protection oversight after Colorado sued the servicer in May.

    

September 27, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Compass Bank, now called BBVA USA, and Air Academy Federal Credit Union will refund Colorado borrowers after failing to return GAP fees that were improperly retained by those institutions.

    

September 23, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a Loveland family nurse practitioner will pay $40,000 after failing to comply with a cease-and-desist order from the Colorado Department of Law, instructing him to stop illegally marketing and overstating the effectiveness of alleged cures for COVID-19, including the anti-parasite drug Ivermectin often used in animals.

    

September 14, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today joined nine other states and the District of Columbia in announcing that StubHub, Inc. is providing refunds to consumers who bought tickets under the company’s pre-pandemic refund policy for events that were subsequently canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    

September 10, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced Santander Consumer USA, Inc., the nation’s largest subprime auto financing company, will provide $3.065 million in debt relief for 340 Colorado consumers.

    

August 26, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — After 18 months of discussions, Attorney General Phil Weiser and local government leaders today unveiled a first-of-its-kind joint framework for distributing statewide over $400 million that Colorado stands to receive from litigation settlements to address the opioid crisis.

    

August 18, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado amended its lawsuit in Denver District Court against JUUL Labs, Inc. to include founders and board members who spearheaded the company’s deceptive marketing and messaging.

    

August 16, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today applauded the U.S. Department of Transportation’s airline refund proposal while urging the department to add clarity to the rules.

    

August 9, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today joined the attorneys general of all 50 states and the District of Columbia in urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight against the scourge of illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology.

    

July 29, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Following an unnerving increase in the frequency and scale of ransomware attacks across the globe—underscored by the massive attack on software company Kaseya on the brink of the July 4th holiday weekend—Attorney General Phil Weiser is joining attorneys general across the country in urging businesses and government entities in to immediately assess their current data security practices and take appropriate steps to protect operations and consumer data.

    

July 29, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Following an unnerving increase in the frequency and scale of ransomware attacks across the globe—underscored by the massive attack on software company Kaseya on the brink of the July 4th holiday weekend—Attorney General Phil Weiser is joining attorneys general across the country in urging businesses and government entities in to immediately assess their current data security practices and take appropriate steps to protect operations and consumer data.

    

July 29, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — More than 200,000 Coloradans will soon receive checks in the mail from a 2019 settlement that the Colorado attorney general’s office reached with CenturyLink because the company deceptively overcharged consumers for services.

    

July 21, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a historic $26 billion agreement that will bring needed relief to people in Colorado and across the country who are struggling with opioid addiction. The agreement includes Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen—the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors—and Johnson & Johnson, which manufactured and marketed opioids.

    

July 09, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser applauded the announcement today that the U.S. Department of Education is forgiving the federal student loans of more than 1,600 Westwood College students nationwide—including 115 Colorado borrowers—after the school misled prospective students about employment and salary prospects and the transferability of the school’s credits.

    

June 14, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado-based mobile home park management company Impact MHC will pay $25,000 and implement new safety measures after more than 15,000 people’s sensitive information was exposed in a data breach, including 719 Coloradans.

    

June 4, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that, because of an agreement with his office, a Colorado travel company will soon contact customers to notify them of their refund options for trips canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    

June 3, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that DIRECTV will refund thousands of Coloradans after charging for Altitude Sports while the channel was unavailable, and for continuing to charge an obsolete fee for high-definition service, even though high-definition television is now a household standard.

    

May 26, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office sued the student loan servicer that handles the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, after it refused to fully comply with state law requiring consumer protection oversight.

    

May 20, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office secured $121,983 in refunds for 171 Colorado vehicle owners who did not receive their full GAP benefits from a Colorado company.

    

May 11, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill announced today a joint settlement of lawsuits filed against two companies that targeted consumers nationwide with deceptive mailers that sold overpriced magazine subscriptions designed to look like renewal notices for consumers’ legitimate existing subscriptions.

    

May 10, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser today sent a bipartisan letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking for more information about Facebook’s announced plans to launch a kids version of Instagram and how the company will protect the privacy and safety of children under 13 years old who use the new platform.

    

April 1, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today urged the U.S. Department of Education to cancel federal student loan debt of thousands of students who attended ITT Technical Institute.

    

March 24, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced Colorado will receive $2,606,605 in a multistate settlement with Boston Scientific Corporation for the deceptive marketing of its surgical mesh products for women.

    

March 16, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser expressed disappointment when reacting to the plan Purdue Pharma filed in bankruptcy court Monday night. Along with 23 other states, Attorney General Weiser released the following statement

    

March 9, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado consumers should be protected from unfair and unreasonable price hikes on their utility bills if federal regulators find that natural gas market violations occurred during last month’s winter storm that left millions without power, says Attorney General Phil Weiser in a letter he sent today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

    

March 8, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a Wheat Ridge-based travel company, Voyageurs International, will provide refunds to about 400 Coloradans after withholding fees for music trips to Europe that it canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    

March 4, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Together with law enforcement agencies and the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE), Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today the creation of the Colorado Unemployment Fraud Task Force. The joint task force will investigate and prosecute those who have committed identity theft, and used that information to commit fraud against the state of Colorado and the unemployment insurance system.

    

March 3, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office secured more than $9.5 million in refunds for Colorado borrowers who were charged unnecessary GAP insurance fees from Wells Fargo.

    

March 1, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser kicked off National Consumer Protection Week today by unveiling the list of the top 10 consumer complaints and inquiries his office received in 2020, which included airlines’ response to upended travel, robocalls, and pandemic purchase scams.

    

February 4, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a $573 million settlement with a coalition of attorneys general from 47 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories and one of the world’s largest consulting firms, McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States, to resolve investigations into the company’s role in working for opioid companies, helping those companies promote their drugs, and profiting from the opioid epidemic.

    

January 25, 2021 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced his office has reached a settlement with Denver-based Nationwide Medical Supply Inc., after the business made misleading claims about the masks and respirators it sold and charged unreasonably excessive prices for those products during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

    

December 30, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today released an advisory warning Coloradans about potential COVID-19 vaccine scams and vowing that the State will enforce laws prohibiting fraudulent or deceptive sales of fake COVID-19 vaccinations and cures.

    

December 18, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced he has been coordinating with ticket sellers to ensure Colorado consumers receive refunds for events that were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    

December 17, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser led a bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit today against Google LLC for anticompetitive conduct in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

    

December 9, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general filed a major antitrust lawsuit today against Facebook Inc. This action challenges a range of Facebook’s conduct over the last decade as illegal under the antitrust laws, explaining that it served to stifle competition and protect its monopoly power.

    

December 7, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that he has reached a multistate settlement with Nationstar Mortgage, which does business as “Mr. Cooper,” providing nearly $1.5 million in restitution to Colorado borrowers, affecting 917 loans.

    

November 24, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that the State of Colorado will receive $223,797.22 in a multistate settlement with The Home Depot, following a data breach that exposed the payment card information of about 40 million Home Depot consumers nationwide.

    

October 20, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorneys General from the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Tennessee, New York, North Carolina, and Utah released the following statement regarding today’s antitrust filing by U.S. Department of Justice and the multistate investigation into Google.

    

October 13, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a settlement with Kingsley Management Corp, a mobile home park management company, which will return $146,770.26 to tenants of its Colorado mobile home parks.

    

October 12, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced an update to a global settlement framework agreement between state attorneys general, local subdivisions, and the opioid manufacturer Mallinckrodt (MNK), its subsidiaries, and certain other affiliates.

       

October 2, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — A bipartisan coalition of 40 attorneys general, led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, have sent a letter urging Congress to enact new consumer protection measures for airline industry customers whether as part of a financial relief package or in separate legislation as soon as possible.

    

September 30, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado and 43 other states have resolved their claims against Anthem over a 2014 data breach the health insurance company experienced that may have impacted more than 1.5 million Coloradans. The settlement requires that Anthem establish and maintain substantially improved data protection measures and requires a payment to Colorado of $141,970.

       

September 24, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced Colorado will receive $1,025,555 in a settlement with C.R. Bard, Inc. and its parent company Becton, Dickinson and Company for the deceptive marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices.

    

September 23, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that a local lawn care company, Fit Turf, will pay $125,000 to the State after enrolling consumers in automatically renewing services without their consent and calling thousands of numbers on the Colorado No-Call list.

 

September 3, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that a Denver-based entrepreneur will pay $62,500 to the State after misleading buyers and consumers about his qualifications to make the hand sanitizer he began producing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

September 1, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today urged U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to investigate Frontier Airlines after consumers from Colorado and 29 other states contacted his office with reports that the airline engaged in in unfair or deceptive practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

August 26, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that the State of Colorado will receive $1,590,271 from an $85 million multistate settlement with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and Honda of America Mfg., Inc., over allegations Honda concealed safety issues related to defects in the frontal airbag systems installed in certain Honda and Acura vehicles sold in the United States. The systems were designed and manufactured by Takata Corporation, a long-time Honda supplier, and were first installed in Honda vehicles in the 2001 model year.

 
August 21, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser released the following statement regarding today’s court judgment in State of Colorado v. CollegeAmerica:
 

August 18, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that his office has reached a settlement in two precedent-setting lawsuits involving Colorado’s right to enforce its interest rate limits on consumer loans to protect residents from predatory lending practices.

 

August 17, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser this month returned more than $66,000 to former Art Institute of Colorado students who were defrauded when the school’s corporate owner, Dream Center Education Holdings, failed to inform them that it lost its accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission.

 

 July 07, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced that Colorado filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court against JUUL Labs, Inc. to protect Colorado consumers, especially youth, who continue to be endangered by the e-cigarette epidemic.

 

 June 10, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser today joined a coalition of 51 attorneys general in filing the third lawsuit stemming from the ongoing antitrust investigation into a widespread conspiracy by generic drug manufacturers to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade for generic drugs sold across the United States.

 

May 01, 2020 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser has sent cease and desist letters to three businesses that marketed tests for COVID-19 infection or immunity and overstated the reliability and accuracy of the tests.

 

April 26, 2019 (DENVER, Colo.) — Attorney General Phil Weiser announced today that his office distributed refunds to 189 Colorado consumers after settling a lawsuit against four Michigan-based companies and an individual who targeted Colorado residents in a debt-settlement scheme

 

March 14, 2019 (DENVER, Colo.) — A Denver District Court judge today ordered the owners of Denver Custom Food Trucks to pay $4.5 million dollars to resolve a case in which they took thousands of dollars from clients to build custom food trucks that were either never delivered or equipped with unsafe, fraudulent parts

 

March 14, 2019 (DENVER, Colo.) — A Denver District Court judge today ordered the owners of Denver Custom Food Trucks to pay $4.5 million dollars to resolve a case in which they took thousands of dollars from clients to build custom food trucks that were either never delivered or equipped with unsafe, fraudulent parts

 

March 4, 2019 (DENVER, Colo.) — In recognition of National Consumer Protection Week, Attorney General Phil Weiser today unveiled a list of the top 10 consumer complaints of 2018. During the 2018 calendar year, consumers filed 9,110 complaints and inquiries with the Consumer Protection Section of the Office of the Attorney General.

 

January 29, 2019 DENVER, Colo.) — For-profit education company Career Education Corp. (CEC) has agreed to reform its recruiting and enrollment practices and forgo collecting about $493.7 million in debts owed by 179,529 students nationally, in a settlement with Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and 48 other attorneys general.

 

January 4, 2019 (DENVER, Colo,) — For-profit education company Career Education Corp. (CEC) has agreed to reform its recruiting and enrollment practices and forgo collecting about $493.7 million in debts owed by 179,529 students nationally, in a settlement with Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and 48 other attorneys general.

Friday, December 28, 2018

DENVER– Today Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that Colorado has joined with 49 other states and the District of Colombia in a $575M settlement with Wells Fargo Bank N.A. to resolve state consumer protection claims for alleged unfair and deceptive trade practices.

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

DENVER- Today Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that a Denver District Court has issued a preliminary injunction order against Denver Custom Food Trucks, Brothers Custom Food Trucks and the owners, Larry Perez and Rudy Martinez.

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Today Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman kicked off the second annual Colorado Consumer Protection Month (CCPM). This statewide initiative focuses on raising awareness and providing education about consumer fraud issues including common scams, financial abuses, and fraud affecting Coloradans across the state.

Monday, September 26, 2018

Today Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that Colorado has joined with 49 other states and the District of Columbia in a $148M settlement with Uber Technologies, Inc., (Uber) to address the company’s one-year delay in reporting a data breach to its affected drivers.

Monday, September 10, 2018

DENVER- Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman and the AARP Foundation ElderWatch program today alerted Colorado consumers about callers claiming to be with the Social Security Administration (SSA). These imposters are claiming to be investigators or attorneys with the SSA and telling consumers that their Social Security account is being used fraudulently. They are urging consumers to call back immediately or risk not getting their Social Security check the next month.

Monday, September 06, 2018

Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman filed a lawsuit today against Purdue Pharma L.P. and Purdue Pharma, Inc. alleging that the companies’ fraudulent and deceptive marketing of prescription opioids played a significant role in causing the opioid epidemic ravaging Colorado and the rest of the nation. The lawsuit claims that Purdue misled Colorado health care providers and consumers about the addiction risks associated with prescription opioids and encouraged doctors to prescribe more opioids and at higher doses for longer periods of time. The result was a financial windfall for the company and a historic deadly epidemic that has killed thousands of Coloradans and left many thousands more struggling with opioid addiction.

Wednesday August 8, 2018

Today Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that her office has obtained a $1.7M verdict against Westminster-based Mile High Heating & Cooling and its owner and manager for violations of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

DENVER- Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman today announced the filing of charges against licensed Speech Language Pathologist Tara Leigh Rose, owner of Beyond Words, LLC. Rose was charged with six counts of felony theft and six counts of felony computer crime after allegedly fraudulently billing Medicaid for over $1.2 million.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Procuradora General, Cynthia Coffman, alertó a los consumidores de que si fueron estafados por personas que utilizaban los servicios de Western Union, ahora pueden presentar un reclamo para que se les regrese el dinero.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

DENVER- The Federal Trade Commission is alerting consumers who lost money to scammers who told them to pay via Western Union’s money transfer system between January 1, 2004 and January 19, 2017, that they can now file a claim to get their money back by going to www.FTC.gov/WU before May 31, 2018. From January 1, 2004 to August 30, 2015, Western Union received 9,043 fraud complaints from Colorado consumers for losses totaling $10,868,502.35.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

DENVER— Today Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman issued a warning to Colorado consumers to be on the lookout for scammers calling, emailing or texting and claiming to be officials from Medicare. These predators are using the distribution of new Medicare cards as an opportunity to trick consumers into giving up their money or personal information. The scammers may threaten to cancel health benefits, or claim to need payment or private information to issue a new Medicare card.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

El día de hoy en la ciudad de Denver, la Procuradora General del estado de Colorado, Cynthia H. Coffman, advirtió a los consumidores del estado de Colorado a que estén al tanto de estafadores que intentarán llamar, enviar correos electrónicos o mensajes de texto, haciéndose pasar por representantes de Medicare. Estos predadores se están aprovechando de la distribución de las nuevas tarjetas para engañar a los consumidores, al convencerlos que entreguen su dinero o datos personales.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

DENVER – Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman today announced the filing of several suits against businesses that fraudulently filed their organizing documents with the Secretary of State. These purported businesses used unwitting Colorado consumers’ addresses to fraudulently incorporate in Colorado.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

DENVER—Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman today announced that her office has reached a settlement on behalf of the State of Colorado with various tobacco companies over disputes relating to the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). Under the settlement, Colorado will receive a lump sum payment of approximately $107 million on April 19, 2018. This payment is in addition to the annual MSA payment of approximately $75 million that the State will receive the same day.

Monday, March 26, 2018

DENVER – Today, Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that she has joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 state and territory Attorneys General in sending a letter demanding answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s business practices and privacy protections.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

DENVER—Today Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that the Statewide Grand Jury has indicted Shannon P. Murphy on five counts of securities fraud. Murphy is accused of soliciting and accepting investment opportunities into companies Epic Mineral Resources, Inc. (EPIC), Murphy Mining International, LLC (MMI), and Murphy Mining and Exploration, LLC (MME). Murphy represented to investors that their investment funds would be used for mining operations and would pay substantial returns.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

DENVER- Today in recognition of National Consumer Protection Week, the Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman unveiled her list of the top ten consumer complaints of 2017. During the 2017 calendar year, consumers filed 9,146 complaints and inquiries with the Consumer Protection Section of the Office of the Attorney General, a 5% increase over the 2016 total.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

DENVER – Today Attorney General Cynthia Coffman announced a $120M settlement with General Motors Company (“GM”) over allegations GM concealed safety issues related to ignition-switch-related defects in GM vehicles. Colorado’s share of the multi-state settlement is $1,905,816.65.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

El día de hoy en la ciudad de Denver, la Procuradora General del estado de Colorado, Cynthia H. Coffman, anunció que se llegó a un acuerdo por la suma de US$120 millones con la compañía General Motors Company (GM). Esto fue tras las acusaciones de que GM ocultó la existencia de problemas de seguridad relacionados con el interruptor de encendido en vehículos de la marca GM. La cantidad que le corresponde al estado de Colorado de este acuerdo multiestatal es de $1, 905,816.65.

Monday, January 22, 2018

DENVER— Today Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that her office has settled a lawsuit against two lenders who charged predatory interest rates to Colorado consumers. The settlement will bring over $2M in funds back to Colorado consumers.

Monday, January 22, 2018

El día de hoy en la ciudad de Denver, la Procuradora General del estado de Colorado, Cynthia H. Coffman, anunció que su oficina ha resuelto una demanda en contra de dos prestamistas que cobraban tasas de interés abusivas a consumidores del estado de Colorado. El acuerdo regresará más de US$2 millones en fondos a los consumidores de Colorado.

Monday, November 6, 2017

DENVER- Today Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced that she and 34 other States and the District of Columbia have filed a “friend of the Court” brief in the United States Supreme Court, supporting the State of South Dakota in South Dakota v.  Wayfair, Inc., No. 17-494. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office is lead counsel for the coalition of States seeking to overturn an outdated rule preventing States from requiring out-of-state online retailers to collect the sales tax that is owed on retail goods. 

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

DENVER- Today Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced the launch of the first annual Colorado Consumer Protection Month (CCPM). This new initiative will focus on raising awareness and providing education about consumer fraud issues including common scams, financial abuses, and fraud affecting Coloradans across the state.  The Colorado Attorney General’s Office is partnering with law enforcement, regulatory entities, and non-profit programs statewide to help Coloradans learn how to identify, prevent, and report fraudulent activity.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

DENVER – El día de hoy la Procuradora General del estado de Colorado Cynthia H. Coffman, anunció el inicio del primer “Mes de Protección al Consumidor de Colorado” (CCPM, por sus siglas en inglés) que se llevará a cabo anualmente. Esta nueva iniciativa se enfocará en crear consciencia y ofrecer educación sobre temas relacionados con el fraude al consumidor; como las estafas más comunes, abusos financieros y casos de fraude que afectan a la gente en todo el estado de Colorado.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman today alerted Colorado consumers to be on the lookout for any telephone calls for tech support where the caller ID on your phones shows “Colorado State Gov’t” with a phone number 800-222-4444. “These phone calls are obviously false,” said Coffman. “No one in state government knows whether your computer is affected by a virus, and we certainly aren’t going to call you get you to pay us to fix your computer.”

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

DENVER- After a two-day hearing, Denver District Court Judge Robert L. McGahey Jr. granted the Attorney General’s motion for a preliminary injunction against defendants Mile High Heating & Cooling, LLC, and its owner, Kevin Dykman.  The injunction prevents the defendants from engaging in any activity related to the sale, installation, service or repair of furnaces, boilers, hot water heaters, air conditioning units or any other type of HVAC equipment.