Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, Governor Daniel J. McKee, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, Senate President Valarie J. Lawson, the Rhode Island Department of Health, and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services today released the following statement about next steps in the potential sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and Fatima Hospital:
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that the Office has issued a regulation requiring pre-merger notification for certain transactions involving medical practice groups, including those involving private equity firms.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Dighton, Massachusetts man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 10 years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) for driving under the influence, resulting in a wrong way highway crash that seriously injured four and hospitalized six overall.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today co-led a coalition of 12 attorneys general in suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for unlawfully conditioning hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding on states’ agreement to discriminate against transgender people.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today issued the following statement after securing a preliminary injunction in Washington, D.C. federal court against the Trump Administration, allowing work on the Revolution Wind project to proceed.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha joined a multistate coalition of 18 other states and the District of Columbia in challenging a recent attempt by U.S.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a coalition of attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the complete defunding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which has returned more than $21 billion improperly taken from over 205 million Americans throughout its 14-year existence. The CFPB’s current acting director, Russell Vought, is attempting to completely defund the agency by refusing to request funding from the Federal Reserve, which will virtually guarantee the agency runs out of money in January 2026.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today issued the following statement after the Trump Administration announced that it would suspend leases for five East Coast wind farms, including Revolution Wind:
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, Mayor Brett P. Smiley, the Providence Police Department, the Rhode Island State Police, the Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island are today announcing the death of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the individual responsible for the murders of two students during a mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, December 13, 2025.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and a coalition of 19 other states today won their lawsuit against the Trump Administration over its unlawful attempt to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, designed to protect communities from natural disasters before they strike.
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