ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr today announced a $1.75 million settlement with Financial Education Services, Inc. (FES) and its owners Michael Toloff and Parimal Naik, alleging that they violated the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act by operating an illegal credit repair business and using unlawful and deceptive practices in their multi-level marketing structure.

ATLANTA, GA - Attorney General Chris Carr today announced that Cobb County Assistant District Attorney (ADA) Hannah Palmquist has been hired to lead the Georgia Department of Law’s newly-created Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit – effective July 1, 2019. 

ATLANTA, GA - Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the presence of a World War I memorial cross on public land in Maryland does not violate the Establishment Clause, and that in fact, destroying the nearly century-old memorial “would not be neutral and would not further the ideals of respect and tolerance embodied in the First Amendment.” This ruling impacts monuments all across the nation – including a 12-foot cross dedicated to a messenger who fell while delivering a message between Union generals found along the trail of the Chickamauga Battlefield in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and a stone cross honoring Georgia’s own World War I veterans that sits on a median between two streets in Augusta, Georgia.

The lawfully ordered execution of Marion Wilson, Jr. for the 1996 murder of Donovan Corey Parks was carried out this evening at 9:52 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia. The sentence was carried out after the United States Supreme Court denied Wilson’s request for a stay of execution.