Price Gouging

As omicron cases are going up, so is something else: the cost of important supplies in the fight against COVID-19. The Connecticut Attorney General’s Office is getting complaints of price hikes on things like masks and at-home test kits, while the Connecticut Better Business Bureau warns of COVID-19 related scams. With new advice from health officials to switch from...

A doubling of positive cases amid a resurgence of COVID-19 has New Yorkers rushing out to grab at-home tests and high-quality masks, and the new demand on these products has the state’s attorney general worried about price gouging. Attorney General Letitia James sounded the alarm Sunday of possible price hikes on consumers eager to acquire tools to detect and...

A Bergen County company admitted on Wednesday its role in price gouging a chain of New Jersey grocery stores in connection with the sale of KN95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to federal prosecutors. Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced that TSC Agency LLC, a logistics and freight forwarding company based in Mahwah, New Jersey, pleaded guilty...

President Joe Biden asked Americans to avoid buying unnecessary gasoline as the Colonial pipeline reopens after hackers shut it down earlier this week. The president also issued a warning to vendors against price gouging and said the U.S. is working with Russian leaders to take “decisive action” against the hackers, who the FBI says are not Russian but are based...

If you see prices spike during an emergency or natural disaster, it may be price gouging. Here’s how to recognize illegal price gouging and what you can do about it.

One of the country’s largest egg producers will send more than 1 million free eggs to New York to settle a pandemic price gouging lawsuit, the state’s attorney general said Thursday. Hillandale Farms will donate 100,000 cartons of eggs to food banks statewide to settle the suit filed last August. Attorney General Letitia James alleged the company systematically gouged grocery…

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued one of the country’s largest egg producers on Wednesday, alleging they systematically gouged grocery stores and military bases during the pandemic — raising prices as much as five-fold in some cases. Hillandale Farms, one of the country’s five largest egg producers, allegedly made $4 million in profits from those sharp price increases,...

Homeland Security Investigations agents and members of the NYPD searched a Long Island jewelry store, part of an investigation into whether the “Jewels by Viggi” jewelry store was hoarding and price-gouging personal protective equipment (PPE), officials say. Investigators said they seized about 20,000 N-95 masks.  The store was allegedly selling the masks online at five times the fair value price….

A man was charged with hoarding and price gouging PPE supplies amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Across a country where some shelves are empty and patience is thin, authorities are receiving a surge of reports about people trying to cash in on the coronavirus crisis with outrageous prices, phony cures and other scams. An Associated Press survey of attorneys generals in all 50 states found the number of complaints has already exceeded 5,000

A hardware store in Manhattan was fined for hiking prices on products like hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes, cleaning products popular in recent weeks to prevent or ward off the spread COVID-19.

A hardware store in Manhattan was fined for hiking prices on products like hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes, cleaning products popular in recent weeks to prevent or ward off the spread COVID-19. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo have both issued warnings to businesses in recent days that price gouging would be severely…