Criminal charges were filed against agent Mike Kobeissi who allegedly tried to price gouge a couple who lost their home in the Eaton fire.
California AG accuses real estate agent Mike Kobeissi of price gouging, raising a house rent by 38% after the Eaton Fire. The DOJ has issued warnings and stresses the importance of reporting such violations.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday announced his office has opened investigations into reports of price-gouging in the Southern California areas ravaged by devastating wildfires. “We have boots on the ground conducting investigations as we speak,” he said in a Thursday press conference.
Just days after President Trump issued sweeping executive orders targeting immigration and the southern border, stories are surfacing of the impacts to local migrants.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed charges Wednesday against a local real estate agent for attempting to "price gouge" amid the Los Angeles Eaton Fire.
With parts of Los Angeles County still smoldering from wildfires, the expected rain this weekend would seem like a welcome relief. But how the rain falls could make the difference between a disaster respite or a disaster repeat.
Two wildfires ignited early Tuesday in San Diego, California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. The Lilac Fire had burned about 20 acres at a moderate rate of speed and was zero percent contained, Cal Fire’s San Diego department said in a statement posted on social media.
California sued Trump's first administration 123 times. Trump lost two-thirds of those cases, but experts warn that California could have a tougher go this time.
Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, according to an analysis by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
With little power in Republican-led Washington, D.C., California Democrats struggle to mount a countereffort to President Trump's agenda.
The order echoed a recurring theme from Trump's campaign — that liberals across the federal government are censoring conservative voices to advance their own "woke" agenda.
What we’ve seen in this post-election period … is that he hasn’t really been willing to support free speech when it counters his narrative.”