Big Tobacco

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Montana Attorney General Tim Fox held a press conference on Monday at the Mazurek Justice Building in Helena to announce an historic settlement with Big Tobacco for monies withheld over the years as part of a nationwide settlement.

The race for Montana Attorney General is heating up, with charges and counter charges by the Democratic candidate Raph Graybill and the Republican Austin Knudsen.

At a press conference in Helena on Monday, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced that his office had filed suit in Lewis and Clark District Court to hold several big tobacco companies liable for millions of dollars owed through the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.