https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj9y3w/new-york-attorney-general-expands-investigation-into-bogus-net-neutrality-comments > The office of New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has subpoenaed more than a dozen lobbying and policy groups tied to the telecom industry as it accelerates an inquiry into who was behind the millions of bogus comments that plagued the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. > The NY AG launched the investigation last November after it was discovered that an unknown party had flooded the FCC’s public comment system with numerous fake comments during the FCC’s open comment period, the public’s only serious opportunity to weigh in on the proposal. While surveys suggest a bipartisan majority of Americans are in fierce opposition to the plan, the lion’s share of the bogus comments offered breathless support for the attack on the popular consumer protections.