Griffin: ‘Today’s order sends a message to those who engage in deceptive tactics against Arkansas consumers: We will stop you.’

LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement after a Pulaski County Circuit Court entered an order enforcing a $20,000 civil penalty against Entropy Systems, Inc. and Little Rock landlord Imran Bohra for failure to follow a consent judgment:

“After years of failing to follow the law and blatantly disregarding an order to notify tenants of their rights to file complaints to my office, Mr. Bohra and his company, Entropy Systems, Inc., are being held accountable. To that end, the defendants are prohibited from entering into future residential leases until the civil penalty is paid in full, and any future residential leases must properly notify tenants of their rights to file complaints. Today’s order sends a message to those who engage in deceptive tactics against Arkansas consumers: We will stop you.

“I thank Assistant Attorney General Reid Adkins and our Public Protection Division for their diligence on this matter.”

Background

Entropy Systems, Inc. and Bohra were sued by the Office of the Attorney General in 2019 for violating the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by renting residential properties to consumers before abating existing code violations. In 2022, the defendants and the Office of the Attorney General entered into a consent judgment that was approved by the Pulaski County Circuit Court and included suspending a $20,000 civil penalty contingent on the defendants complying with the terms of the consent judgment.
The consent judgment required the defendants to attach an addendum to all leases notifying tenants of their right to file a complaint with the Office of the Attorney General. In January, Griffin filed a petition to enforce the consent judgment against the defendants for failure to notify tenants of that right.

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About Attorney General Tim Griffin

Tim Griffin was sworn in as the 57th Attorney General of Arkansas on January 10, 2023, having previously served as the state’s 20th Lieutenant Governor from 2015-2023. From 2011-2015, Griffin served as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District, where he served on the House Committee on Ways and Means, House Armed Services Committee, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Ethics and House Committee on the Judiciary while also serving as a Deputy Whip for the Majority.

Griffin has served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for more than 27 years and currently holds the rank of colonel. In 2005, Griffin was mobilized to active duty as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq.

He is currently serving as the Commander of the 2d Legal Operations Detachment in New Orleans, Louisiana. His previous assignments include serving as the Commander of the 134th Legal Operations Detachment at Fort Liberty (née Bragg), North Carolina, and as a Senior Legislative Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon. Griffin earned a master’s degree in strategic studies as a Distinguished Honor Graduate from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Griffin also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush; Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Arkansas; Senior Investigative Counsel, Government Reform and Oversight Committee, U.S. House of Representatives; and Associate Independent Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel David M. Barrett, In re: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.

Griffin is a graduate of Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway, and Tulane Law School in New Orleans. He attended graduate school at Oxford University. He is admitted to practice law in Arkansas (active) and Louisiana (inactive). Griffin lives in Little Rock with his wife, Elizabeth, a Camden native, and their three children.

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