St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands – V.I. Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea delivered a welcome address to 591 attendees at the 2025 Attorney General Alliance (AGA) Annual Meeting, which officially began this week in St. Thomas.
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands – The V.I. Access and Visitation Program (AVP) within the Paternity and Child Support Division (PCSD) of the V.I. Department of Justice (DOJ), hosted a special certificate ceremony on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at G & D Seafood in Subbase, honoring participants of the 4th Fatherhood Buzz program—a locally led initiative under the DOJ’s AVP Program aimed at strengthening father-child relationships and promoting positive parenting in the Territory.
U.S. Virgin Islands – V.I. Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea today joined a bipartisan coalition of 42 attorneys general in calling on Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) to protect people from fraudulent investment ads appearing on Facebook. New York Attorney General Letitia James has found several Facebook ads impersonating well-known investors claiming to offer high returns on investments. The fraudulent ads are luring users into pump-and-dump schemes that have led to thousands of people losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
U.S. Virgin Islands – V.I. Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea is calling on Congress to swiftly pass the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act of 2025 (H.R. 2808 / S. 1467), a bipartisan, bicameral bill aimed at protecting Americans from the invasive and deceptive practice of mortgage credit “trigger leads.”
U.S. Virgin Islands – The Superior Court of the Virgin Islands has granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) preventing the Board of Parole from hearing pending parole applications while its membership lacks a quorum. At a later date the Court will hear arguments with respect to the Governor’s motion to enjoin the retroactive application of Act No. 8791(which would make geriatric parole available to those otherwise ineligible for parole under the law applicable at the time of their sentencing).