Articles Tagged: Tom Miller

TurboTax’s parent company will pay some $1.02 million to approximately 33,000 Iowans who were misled by the tax preparer, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller’s office said Wednesday.

Finkenauer will ask the Iowa Supreme Court to reverse a Sunday night ruling by a Polk County District Court judge that she did not submit enough signatures on nomination petitions to qualify for the Democratic primary, preventing her from facing likely GOP nominee U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley in the November general election.

Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat seeking re-election, joins many Republicans and ethanol industry leaders in calling for the Biden administration to utilize E15 to ease gas price pressures on consumers.

Alan Ostergren, a conservative lawyer who argued on behalf of many of the challenges, said some of the petitioners now may contest some of the panel’s rulings in court.

Challenges are considered by a state panel, which will meet Tuesday. If the panel determines the candidate’s paperwork does not meet state requirements, that candidate’s paperwork is nullified, which would take them off the ballot.

State lawmakers have given the first stage of approval to a proposed state constitutional amendment that would clarify what happens when Iowa’s governor must be replaced.

The Judiciary Committee voted to to withdraw the subpoenas issued in its investigation of a district court judge who allegedly committed an impeachable offense during the selection of candidates for the governor to choose from in making a judicial appointment.

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said Wednesday his office has joined a nationwide investigation into TikTok for providing and promoting its social media platform to children and young adults while use is associated with physical and mental health harms.

Not a formal investigation, but the attorney general will look at why the price of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer has increased 315 percent since January 2021, and other types of fertilizer have increased between 171 percent and 290 percent, according to the federal agriculture department.

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Centurion Filing Services and its owner agreed to pay $78,900 in refunds to more than 1,200 Iowa business owners and charity operators, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller’s Office said in a news release Wednesday announcing the settlement.

Iowa is one of 46 states that in 1998 approved a settlement agreement with four major tobacco industry manufacturers over allegations tied to the public costs associated with tobacco-related illnesses.

Members of the billionaire Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma are close to a deal to increase their contribution to the OxyContin maker's sweeping opioid settlement that includes Iowa.

The line of succession plan for when an Iowa governor is no longer in office would be clarified under a proposed amendment to the state constitution.

The state public health department estimates that deaths in Iowa due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, rose from 31 percent of all overdoses in 2016 to 87 percent in 2021.

The race for Iowa attorney general in 2022 will be about “who is the best lawyer to stand up and advocate for Iowans, who will work hard for them and defend the issues that they care about,” according to Brenna Bird.