Dana Nessel

LANSING – A Grand Rapids doctor is now facing a felony after continuing to practice despite a summary suspension order against him, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. Husam Thamin Abed, M.D., 52, of Sterling Heights, has been charged in Kent County’s 61st District Court with one count...

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost will again set aside their interstate “rivalry” when they team to host the 2022 Robocall Summit, sponsored by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). The conference, set to take place July 12-13 at...

LANSING – Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud released the following statement related to today’s ruling from the Michigan Supreme Court:. “The Citizens of Flint should know that these cases are not over. Public commentary to the contrary is presumptive and rash. Our reading is that the Court’s opinion interprets the one-man grand jury process to require charges to be filed at the district court and include a preliminary examination. Our team is prepared to move forward through that process. We relied upon settled law and the well-established prosecutorial tool of the one-man grand jury, used for decades, to bring forward charges against the nine defendants in the Flint water crisis. We still believe these charges can and will be proven in court.

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel was honored Monday with the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Michigan (CACMI) “Champion of Justice Award”. AG Nessel was unable to attend in person, but provided a statement to the agency on the recognition:. “The soul of CACMI’s work is...

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is announcing two permanent staffing changes within the Department. Aubrey Sargent is now Chief of the Criminal Investigations Division after serving as the acting chief of the division. Veneshia Cezil is now the Chief of Operations after serving as acting chief. “I...

LANSING – Currently, Michigan providers cannot be prosecuted for providing abortion care due to an injunction issued by the Court of Claims last month in Planned Parenthood of Michigan v Attorney General of the State of Michigan. “As it currently stands, providing abortion care in Michigan cannot be prosecuted,...

The reverberations are still roiling the nation after the stunning overturn of the 1973 landmark Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade. The future of abortion in Michigan is tricky to nail down, and the situation is subject to change at any moment. With Michigan’s 1931 law banning more abortions currently on hold through an injunction, abortion is still legal in the state for now -- but for how long? And what impact will this have on elections in the fall?

LANSING – One of the men charged with creating fictitious documents while contracted to service law enforcement alcohol testing instruments will spend the first part of his sentence behind bars, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. The instrument, DataMaster DMT (DataMaster Transportable), is more commonly referred to as...

PLYMOUTH, Mich. — The Roe v. Wade decision that has been in place for nearly 50 years was overturned by the United States Supreme Court Friday. The ban is expected to lead abortion bans in roughly half the states, leaving it up to each state to decide. Decision: Supreme...

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released the following statement Friday morning:. “The overturning of Roe is not just the loss of a right; it is the erosion of our status as equal citizens under the law. As a nation, we trust in our highest court to hold sacred their duty, free from political whim. Today’s decision sets a dangerous precedent in reversing 50 years’ of settled law; creating extraordinary upheaval in the American legal system; and putting at risk other individual rights that generations of Americans fought to secure and preserve.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is up for re-election in November, on Tuesday painted a doomsday scenario if supporters of ex-President Trump win this year. "I wish I could say Trump’s dangerous lies are behind us," she tweets. "But despite all evidence to the contrary, his followers keep doubling down--including my opponent, chief architect of the hacked voting machine conspiracy theory. And if they win in Nov., democracy as we know it is over."

LANSING – A caregiver at a Clinton County adult foster home faces trial for vulnerable adult abuse, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. Andrew House-Carter, 27, of Lansing, was bound over for trial following a preliminary hearing that wrapped Wednesday on the following charges:. first-degree vulnerable adult abuse,...

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 49 other states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the federal government to settle allegations of fraud against Mallinckrodt ARD, LLC (formerly known as Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), a U.S. subsidiary of the Irish pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt plc (collectively Mallinckrodt), which sells and markets pharmaceutical products throughout the nation.

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 45 other attorneys general to secure a $1.25 million multistate settlement with Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line stemming from a 2019 data breach that involved the personal information of approximately 180,000 Carnival employees and customers nationwide. Michigan will receive $29,016.47 from the settlement.

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in support of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposal to require U.S. companies to provide accurate and detailed information about the financial risk they face from climate change. This week, nearly one-third of the U.S. population was under an extreme heat warning, and a once-in-a-century drought is causing ongoing losses in revenue from agriculture, tourism, and more. These impacts will only worsen in the coming years. Mandatory climate change-related disclosures are essential to guard U.S. and global financial systems against systemic risk associated with climate change and to protect investors, including the many ordinary Americans whose retirement savings are investment-based.

LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel testified before the House Judiciary Committee to update committee members on the changes to House Bills 4847-4850, which are among legislative proposals resulting from the ongoing work of the Elder Abuse Task Force (EATF). “Through that feedback and these productive conversations, we...

LANSING – A co-conspirator in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Michigan Department of Treasury will spend two years in prison, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today. The Attorney General’s enforcement operation was conducted in close collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans...