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.
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.
President Donald Trump may visit California this week as state Attorney General Rob Bonta begins filing expected lawsuits against the president's new executive orders.
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced charges against a La Cañada Flintridge real estate agent for allegedly raising the price of his rental by 38% after L.A.'s wildfires.
With prices of hotels and short-term rentals soaring in Southern California due to the recent devastating wildfires, price-gouging has once again
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.
Southern California's expensive housing market is going to get a lot more competitive after deadly firestorms torched more than 12,000 homes and other structures in the Los Angeles area, leaving tens of thousands of people without a place to stay.
Thousands of firefighters have been battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. The two largest fires, the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Fire near Pasadena, remain active.
California officials, including Attorney General Rob Bonta, are warning fire victims and other residents to be wary of fraudsters trying to take advantage of the wildfire crisis.
California sued the Trump administration 123 times between 2017 and 2021, according to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office. It spent about $10 million a year in doing so. A majority of the
Search and rescue operations are ongoing, and residents forced to evacuate from the fires are still "probably at least a week out" from returning home, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. Cal Fire said teams are in the fire zones analyzing the burn areas to determine places of concern.
In an interview with KCRA 3 right before President Trump began taking the executive action, Bonta signaled his office was keeping a close eye on Trump's attempts to militarize immigration enforcement activity and his executive order to get rid of birthright citizenship.