Jan 17, 2025 | Bureau of Securities | Division of Consumer Affairs | Press Release
Multistate Task Force Resolves Unanticipated Tax Bills in Some Target Date Retirement Funds For Immediate Release: January 17, 2025 Office of The Attorney General Division of Consumer Affairs- Cari Fais, DirectorBureau of Securities- Elizabeth M. Harris, Bureau Chief...
Jan 16, 2025 | appealing to children | bright packaging | California | candy | chocolate | civil investigative demands | Coalition | Connecticut | distributing | Division of Consumer Affairs | e-cigarette retailers | e-cigarettes | electronic cigarettes | enforcement tools | flavored vapor products | fruit | Hawaii | Illinois | importing | lawsuits | licensing and consumer protection laws | marketing flavored e-cigarettes | Minnesota | New Jersey | New Jersey joins California | New York | Ohio | rise in tobacco sales | selling | subpoenas | to filing lawsuits | Tobacco | Vermont | warning letters | Washington D.C. | Child Protection | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Advancing efforts to protect New Jerseyans from the hazards of electronic cigarettes, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that the Division of Consumer Affairs sent letters to nearly 11,000 New Jersey businesses reminding them that selling flavored vapor products is unlawful and directing them to cease any such sales immediately.
Jan 10, 2025 | Advisory Accounts | Brokerage Account Conversions | Bureau of Securities | commission-based brokerage accounts | Consent Order | Edward D. Jones & Co. L.P. | Edward Jones | investors | Multistate Investigation | Supervisory Failures | Bureau of Securities | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced that the Bureau of Securities has joined a $17 million nationwide multistate settlement with Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (Edward Jones) resulting from a probe into the broker-dealer’s supervision of financial professionals moving customers’ commission-based brokerage accounts to fee-based investment advisory accounts.
Jan 7, 2025 | "Advocate Form" | Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group | against medical advice | aneurysm | cheap labor | Colonia | Conspiracy to Conceal | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Enforcement Bureau | Final Consent Order | Harboring Aliens | Household Servants | housekeepers | India | medically compromised | Physician Sentenced to Federal Prison | Professional Boards Prosecution Section | Revoked License | rheumatology practice | State Board of Medical Examiners | verified complaint | Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey’s Community Health Center | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Immigrants' Rights | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners has permanently revoked the medical license of a Central Jersey physician facing 27 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to illegally recruit, conceal, and harbor two women from India to be household servants for low pay.
Jan 2, 2025 | Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group | Bodywork | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Enforcement Bureau | female client | gross negligence | inappropriate | incompetence | License revocation | malpractice | Massage Therapist | permanent revocation | Professional Boards Prosecution Section | rules of professional conduct | sexual misconduct | unwanted sexual contact | verified complaint | Verona | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers | Protecting New Jersey in Court | Sexual Assault Victims
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the New Jersey Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy (“Board”) has permanently revoked the license of an Essex County massage therapist amid allegations he engaged in inappropriate and unwanted sexual contact with a female client during a massage session.
Dec 19, 2024 | Bergen County | DCA | Division of Consumer Affairs | Enforcement Bureau | exploitation of trust | healthcare practitioner | in appropriate remarks | Investigations | License Revoked | patient | Physical Therapist | rules of professional conduct | Sexual Relations | State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners (“Board”) has revoked the license of a North Jersey physical therapist who admitted to engaging in sexual relations with one patient and allegedly made inappropriate remarks to another.
