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Mar 30, 2023, 11:23 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained thirteen felony convictions against 43 year old Frank Parry of Steele, Missouri, for sexually abusing two minors, one for an extended period of time. Parry fled to Mexico and was apprehended crossing back into the United States by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Later, while being held at the Pemiscot County Jail, Parry forged a series of letters posing as one of the victims, as a friend of a victim, and as another inmate, all in unsuccessful attempts to thwart prosecution. Parry faces up to four consecutive life sentences, plus 84 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Mar 29, 2023, 15:14 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has filed twelve felony counts of Deceptive Business Practice, Stealing by Deceit and Financial Exploitation of the Elderly against Daniel M. Carbone, 49, of St. Clair, MO. Carbone is accused of criminally defrauding five Franklin County consumers, some of whom are elderly, in connection with his businesses, Concrete Impressions and All Pro Concrete.

Mar 28, 2023, 15:10 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to defend Missourians’ right to religious liberty, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a coalition of 19 states in filing an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court supporting the College of the Ozarks in their suit against the Biden Administration’s unlawful rule prohibiting single sex dorms.

Mar 28, 2023, 10:53 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office secured a 33-year prison sentence in the deadly shooting of a twelve year old child.

Mar 27, 2023, 20:27 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to defend Missourians’ religious liberty, Attorney General Bailey and 21 other states directed a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, urging his department to retain a provision that compels public universities to comply with the First Amendment or else lose grant funding – a provision put in place to protect religious groups on campuses nationwide. The Biden Administration is threatening to rescind this protection.

Mar 24, 2023, 11:34 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers as tax season quickly approaches, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey warns Missourians to be aware of scammers and to take steps to protect themselves from anyone attempting to get their personal information.

Mar 23, 2023, 15:03 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office obtained seven felony convictions against 56 year old Robert Lee Sims, Jr. of Madison, Missouri, for sexually abusing and exploiting a minor victim over many years.

Mar 23, 2023, 11:26 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has launched an online form where those who have experienced harm from gender transition interventions or witnessed troubling practices at transition clinics in Missouri can submit their concerns. This tip line stems from an investigation that Attorney General Bailey launched into a St. Louis pediatric transgender center that has been accused by a whistleblower of using experimental drugs on children, distributing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones without individualized assessment, and even giving children these life-altering drugs without parental consent.

Mar 22, 2023, 12:11 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect farmers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office successfully defended SB 391, which prevents stringent standards from being imposed on concentrated animal feeding operations, at the Missouri Supreme Court. The Court sided unanimously with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday, March 21.

Mar 21, 2023, 15:36 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the people of the City of St. Louis, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today filed his amended petition in quo warranto against Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner after additional evidence has come to light. Over the past three weeks, his office has interviewed multiple witnesses who had the courage to come forward, reviewed countless court files, and analyzed over 30,000 documents and data from the St Louis City Circuit Court and the Comptroller’s Office.

Mar 20, 2023, 13:11 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children and enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office is issuing an emergency regulation clarifying that, because gender transition interventions are experimental, they are covered by existing Missouri law governing unfair, deceptive, and unconscionable business practices, including in administering healthcare services. The regulation is necessary due to the skyrocketing number of gender transition interventions, despite rising concerns in the medical community that these procedures are experimental and lack clinical evidence of safety or success.

Mar 16, 2023, 13:27 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained a consent judgment in a case against the business owner of Puppy Love Kennel, Corey Mincey, for violating Missouri’s standards for licensed commercial dog breeders.

Mar 15, 2023, 16:35 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to defend the Second Amendment, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 18 other state attorneys general filed amicus briefs in federal court supporting Americans’ right to keep and bear arms and the right of places of worship to determine their own policies related to firearms. Both cases concern New York’s unconstitutional law making it a felony to possess a firearm in “sensitive places,” which it defines to include “any place of worship or religious observation.”

Mar 14, 2023, 15:56 PM by AG Bailey

Jefferson City, Mo. – In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District upheld the conviction of Michael A. Black for the shooting and killing of his stepson, Alexander Koch, in August 2017. The appeals court affirmed the circuit court’s judgment, rejecting Black’s claims that the circuit court abused its discretion by excluding evidence of the victim’s past violent acts against third parties.

Mar 14, 2023, 11:57 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office secured a guilty verdict against Daymond Reeves for the 2020 murder of Allan Brewer. Reeves was sentenced on March 7 to life without the possibility for parole for first degree murder and fifteen years for armed criminal action.

Mar 13, 2023, 13:28 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined 45 states and the District of Columbia in asking a state court to order social media company TikTok, Inc. to fully comply with an ongoing investigation into whether the company violated consumer protection laws.

Mar 9, 2023, 12:11 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that Daniel Cahill pled guilty in Warren County Circuit Court to the Class E Felony of Deceptive Business Practice and the Class D Felony of Stealing Over $750. Cahill was immediately sentenced to a four-year suspended sentence with multiple probation requirements, including full restitution for the victim. He has an additional case in St. Louis County pending for additional victims.

Mar 8, 2023, 14:43 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missouri consumers and enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Bailey joined a coalition of seven states in shutting down a massive robocaller operation involving John Caldwell Spiller II and his business partner Jakob Mears, the owners of Texas-based Rising Eagle Capital Group LLC and JSquared Telecom LLC, as well as Rising Eagle Capital Group–Cayman. The defendants blasted billions of illegal robocalls to people across the country.

Mar 8, 2023, 11:03 AM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office filed a criminal complaint against Curtis Lee Domann, for allegedly taking money from a homeowner in Platte County, Missouri to perform home renovations that he never intended to perform.

Mar 7, 2023, 12:12 PM by AG Bailey

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office filed a civil action against William J. Raymond for unlawful business practices.