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Robocalls are not slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic, complaints continue to rise about the unwanted calls. Telemarketing and robocall scams were the top scams in North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein's 2020 Annual Report. "North Carolinians were inundated with robocalls in 2020," Stein said. "Scammers use them to try to trick and scare people out of their hard-earned money, so I'm asking people to report them at www.ncdoj.gov/norobo." Because so many scams originate through robocalls, Stein created the Robocall Report Task Force in 2020. One of the robocalls consumers cannot see...

'It's a pandemic within a pandemic' | Addiction crisis worse than ever in the Carolinas CDC data shows North Carolina has seen a 10-19% increase in drug overdose deaths in the last year. South Carolina more than 20%, among the worst in the nation. Author: Savannah Levins (WCNC) Updated: 6:19 PM EST February 4, 2021 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced Thursday that consulting firm Mckinsey has agreed to pay out a $573 million settlement to 47 states for its role in advising businesses how to sell more opioid painkillers. The ...

NC Attorney General Josh Stein Attorney General Josh Stein says North Carolina will collect nearly $19 million from McKinsey & Company for its role in helping market highly-addictive opioids. The global business consultant reached a $573 million settlement with 47 states for the recommendations that it provided drug makers for years. “Purdue Pharma didn’t dream up all of its ideas on its own on how to push its pills,” said Stein in a press conference Thursday morning. “It paid global consulting firm McKinsey handsomely for 15 years to design marketing plans to help it sell more pills,...

Battling the opioid epidemic | Attorney General Josh Stein Reaches $573 million settlement with McKinsey Attorney General Josh Stein said the opioid crisis has gotten worse since the start of the pandemic between isolation, anxiety, and unemployment. Author: Jessica Winters Updated: 7:21 PM EST February 4, 2021 NORTH CAROLINA, USA — Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has reached a $573 million multi-state settlement with one of the world’s largest consulting firms, McKinsey & Company, resolving investigations into the company’s role in ad...

Attorney General Josh Stein today announced Monday that he, along with the Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Commission and the Sierra Club, has entered into a settlement with Duke Energy about paying for coal ash cleanup that will save North Carolina electricity customers more than $1 billion on their utility bills over the next 10 years. The proposed settlement, to be filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) Monday,...