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In January, Charity Clark will be sworn in as Vermont Attorney General. The Democrat is the first woman elected attorney general.

The woman said scammers stole $6,000 over the course of four days after gaining access to her online account.

Plaintiff attorneys said payments will be going out to about 1,500 more property owners in Bennington and Shaftsbury. They said the process has been disrupted by fraudulent claims and the role of an out-of-state company that unnecessarily offered to help beneficiaries for a fee.

Local, state, and federal elected officials should provide their constituents with a high level of customer service. This includes the Vermont attorney generals Consumer Assistance Program, which supposedly helps poor and working-class Vermonters when they get ripped off by billion-dollar corporations.  I feel that our federal elected officials dont always provide top-level customer service when Vermonters ask for help dealing with federal agencies. Federal officials often try to pass the buck ...

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MONTPELIER – The Vermont Attorney General has announced a settlement with a Florida company who was sending misleading emails in an attempt to gain payments from Vermont businesses.

Driving somewhere? You’ll pay more to do it — now and for the foreseeable future.

Reports of rental-related scams nearly doubled during the pandemic. Vermonters can better avoid these cyber crimes by looking out for these 10 things.

Governor Phil Scott vetoed a bill today/Thursday that would require the registration of home contractors — just as a group of legislators, contractors and homeowners were urging him to sign the measure.