2025 Press Releases

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• 6/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces All 55 Attorneys General Sign On to $7.4 Billion Purdue Settlement

  Attorney General William Tong today announced that all 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family.

• 5/28/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Lawsuit Blocking Trump Administration from Imposing Worldwide Tariffs

  Attorney General Tong today released the following statement after the United States Court of International Trade ruled that the Trump administration’s tariffs issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are invalid and cannot be implemented.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 8/5/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads Bipartisan Effort Urging U.S. Department of Justice to Help Address Illegal Offshore Gaming

  Attorney General William Tong today led a bipartisan multistate coalition of 50 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to assist in curbing the spread of illegal offshore gaming across the country. The coalition stressed the need for action to combat harm to the rule of law, consumers, and the economy from an unprecedented growth in illicit online gambling.

• 2/13/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues to Stop Elon Musk's Unconstitutional Power Grab

  Attorney General William Tong and thirteen other attorneys general today filed a new lawsuit challenging the unlawful delegation of executive power to Elon Musk.

• 2/13/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Preliminary Injunction Issued in Birthright Citizenship Case

  ttorney General William Tong today joined the attorneys general of New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, Delaware, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Vermont, and the City of San Francisco in releasing the following statement in response to a preliminary injunction being granted by a federal judge against President Trump’s unconstitutional executive order terminating birthright citizenship.

• 2/14/2025 Statement of Attorneys General Regarding the Vice President's Comments on Judicial Review on February 9, 2025

  Attorney General William Tong released the following joint statement signed by 17 state attorneys general regarding Vice President Vance’s comments on judicial review made on February 9, 2025.

• 1/28/2025 Connecticut Joins 22 States in Suing to Stop Trump Administration from Withholding Essential Federal Funding

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general suing to stop the implementation of a new Trump administration policy that orders the withholding of trillions of dollars in funding that every state in the country relies on to provide essential services to millions of Americans.

• 8/5/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues to Block Unlawful Attacks on Medically Necessary Health Care for Transgender Youth

  Attorney General William Tong has joined a multistate lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict access to necessary healthcare for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary youth.

• 3/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Temporary Block on Mass Firings of Federal Probationary Employees and Gets Fired Employees Their Jobs Back

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement after a federal judge in the United States District Court for Maryland issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) for 18 federal agencies, ordering them to stop the illegal mass layoffs of federal probationary employees and to reinstate fired employees by 1:00pm on Monday, March 17, 2025.

• 1/31/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Initial Victory in Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s Illegal Federal Funding Freeze

  Attorney General William Tong today announced an initial victory in the lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s Office of Management & Budget’s memo freezing federal grants and loans.

• 5/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Praises House Passage of Legislation to Combat Youth Social Media Addiction

  Attorney General William Tong today praised passage in the state House of Representatives of legislation proposed by his office to prohibit social media companies from exposing minors to harmful and addictive algorithms and notifications without parental consent.

• 1/2/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces New Haven Psychiatrist to Pay More Than 450K to Settle False Claims and Controlled Substances Act

  Attorney General William Tong, Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Roberto Coviello, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, and Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England today announced that Naimetulla Ahmed Syed has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments and agreed to pay $455,439.26 to resolve allegations that he violated the federal and state False Claims Acts and the civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) relating to his issuance of medically unnecessary controlled substances prescriptions.