With thousands of people displaced by the Palisades and Eaton fires, the office has every division working on gouging claims.
County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger, who both saw swaths of their districts decimated by fire, asked county ...
It's illegal to jack up the price of essentials during a declared emergency, but thousands of Floridians say it's happening across the state.
He said the number does not include the examples on the crowdsourced spreadsheet. The price gouging could be fueled, in part, by rental pricing software, Carbajal said. This software, popular ...
Los Angeles County landlords that attempt to price gouge victims of the recent wildfires could face fines of up to $50,000 if ...
The state Attorney General's Office announced charges against a second Southern California real estate agent accused of price ...
Whenever a natural disaster occurs, public officials commonly enforce “anti-gouging” laws, a type of price control.
Among examples cited by the attorney’s office of price-gouging by Blueground, the monthly rent for an apartment in downtown L.A. was listed for $2,000 a month on Dec. 31, was raised 56% to $ ...
Newsweek found properties that jacked up their prices during the California wildfires raising concerns of potential price gouging.
Price-gouging is a misdemeanor punishable by up ... People on social media are crowd-sourcing examples of egregious increases, and even inputting their findings into a shared Google document.