Attorney General’s Office fields 451 price gouging complaints

AUSTIN (KXAN) – State investigators knew it would likely happen. And, it did.
As of this report, the Texas Attorney General’s Office has received 451 complaints of price gouging since the governor declared 30 Texas counties disaster areas ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s landfall. The governor’s declaration activated the state’s anti-price gouging law, which makes it illegal to inflate prices for fuel, food, medicine or “any other necessity.”
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