2025 Press Releases

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• 7/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Cutting Billions in Disaster Mitigation Funding

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 20 states in suing the Trump Administration over its decision to illegally shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, designed to protect communities from natural disasters before they strike.

• 5/14/2025 Connecticut Secures Temporary Custody of Fifteen Neglected Horses from Vacant Land in Lebanon

  Attorney General William Tong and Department of Agriculture Commissioner Bryan Hurlburt announced today that the state has filed an action for permanent custody of fifteen neglected horses seized from Stirrup Fun Stables Rescue in Lebanon.

• 5/13/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Trump Administration Over Illegal Immigration Conditions Placed on Billions in Federal Funding

  Attorney General William Tong, with a coalition of 19 other attorneys general, today filed two separate lawsuits against the Trump administration for attempting to illegally coerce their states into performing federal immigration enforcement duties by threatening to withhold billions in federal funding for emergency services and infrastructure.

• 4/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Warns 9 Phone Providers Over Continued Unlawful Robocall Traffic

  Attorney General William Tong and the 51 bipartisan attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force notified nine voice service providers that they may be violating state and federal laws by continuing to route allegedly unlawful robocalls across their networks.

• 2/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues to Stop Trump from Defunding Lifesaving Medical Research, Including $35 Million for UConn

  Attorney General William Tong and 21 other attorneys general today sued the Trump Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for unlawfully cutting funds that support cutting-edge, lifesaving medical and public health research at universities and research institutions across the country.

• 1/15/2025 Attorney General Tong, Mayor Simmons, Stamford Police, State Department of Consumer Protection, Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, Department of Revenue Services, Department of Labor Announce Confiscation of More Than 135 LBS of Illegal Cannabis

  Attorney General William Tong, Stamford Mayor Caroline Simmons, Stamford Police Chief Tim Shaw, Consumer Protection Commissioner Bryan Cafferelli, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Commissioner Ronnell Higgins, Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Mark Boughton, and Department of Labor Commissioner Danté Bartolomeo today announced results of a December raid on Stamford smoke shops, netting more than 135 pounds of illegal cannabis products from eight shops found violating numerous criminal and civil statutes including illegal drug sales, underage sales, labor violations, and tax violations.

• 3/7/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Coalition of State Attorneys General, DOJ Submit Final Proposed Fix to End Google's Search Monopoly

  A coalition of 38 State Attorneys General and the Justice Department today proposed a final package of remedies to end Google’s illegal monopoly over internet search engines and restore competition to the benefit of consumers nationwide.

• 5/9/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces $495,721 False Claims Settlement with Dentists Over Prohibited Patient Recruiting Fees

  Attorney General William Tong and United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut today announced a $495,721 false claims settlement with Norwalk-based Advanced Dental Center PC (“Advanced Dental”), and its owners Tal Yossefi and Elad Yossefi, resolving allegations that they violated state and federal False Claims Act statutes through prohibited fees paid to a “patient recruiting” company.

• 2/21/2025 Ahead of Hearing, Attorney General Tong Issues Joint Statement on Lawsuit to Preserve Funding for Medical and Public Health Innovation Research

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in issuing a joint statement ahead of a court hearing in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. National Institutes of Health.

• 5/15/2025 Attorney General Tong Praises Senate Passage of Consumer Protection Legislation

  Attorney General William Tong today praised passage in the state Senate of proposed legislation which seeks to strengthen a number of important protections for consumers.

• 2/9/2025 Attorney General Tong Stands with Federal Workers in "Fork in the Road" Federal Buyout Challenge

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general, standing with the nation’s federal employees in a challenge to the Trump administration’s federal “buyout” plan.

• 2/7/2025 Trump Administration Not Complying With Court Order to Unfreeze Federal Funding, Attorney General Tong Seeks to Enforce Temporary Restraining Order

  Citing evidence that the Trump Administration is continuing to block state funding out of compliance with the court order secured by Attorney General William Tong and 22 other state attorneys general, the coalition of states this afternoon filed a motion to enforce and a motion for preliminary injunction in NY v. Trump.

• 2/8/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Temporary Restraining Order Blocking DOGE Access to Confidential Records, Sensitive Data and Critical Payment Systems

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding the temporary restraining order granted early this morning blocking “political appointees, special government employees, and any government employee detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department access to Treasury Department payment systems or any other data maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information.”

• 2/7/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues President Trump and Secretary of Treasury to Block DOGE Access to Confidential Records, Sensitive Data and Critical Payment Systems

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general suing President Donald Trump, the U.S. Treasury and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to stop the unauthorized disclosure of Americans’ private information and sensitive data. The lawsuit asserts that the Trump Administration illegally provided Elon Musk and the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” unauthorized access to the Treasury Department’s central payment system, and therefore to Americans’ most sensitive personal information, including bank account details and Social Security numbers.

• 7/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces $720 Million in Settlements from Eight Opioid Drug Makers

  Attorney General William Tong today announced approximately $720 million in new multistate settlements with eight drug makers that manufactured opioid pills and worsened the nationwide opioid crisis.