News & Updates
AG Racine Sues Washington Sports Club for Misleading District Consumers About Membership Cancellation Policies, Billing Practices, and Fees
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today filed a lawsuit against Town Sports International (TSI), LLC, the operators of Washington Sports Clubs, over its deceptive cancellation and billing practices.
AG Racine Announces Neiman Marcus To Pay $1.5 Million For 2013 Data Breach
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that The Neiman Marcus Group LLC will pay $1.5 million and implement several policies to resolve a multistate investigation into a 2013 data breach that exposed its customers’ personal financial information.
CONSUMER ALERT: Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) Letter Scam
District residents should be cautious as a new scam is making the rounds where fraudsters use letterhead from the District’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education.
AG Racine Announces Career Education Corp. Will Provide $2 Million in Debt Relief to District Student Borrowers Over Deceptive Recruiting
Attorney General Karl A. Racine and the attorneys general of 48 states announced a settlement with Career Education Corporation (CEC) – a for-profit college company – resolving allegations over deceptive recruiting and other illegal practices.
AG Racine Announces Wells Fargo to Pay the District $1.1 Million for Opening Unauthorized Accounts, Other Deceptive Practices
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that Wells Fargo Bank N.A. will pay $575 million in a 50-state settlement for, among other unfair and deceptive trade practices, opening millions of unauthorized accounts and enrolling customers into online banking services without their knowledge…
AG Racine Leads 15-State Coalition Opposing Payday Loan Industry Attempts to Skirt State Usury Laws
Attorney General Karl A. Racine is leading a group of 15 state attorneys general in opposing payday lenders’ use of Indian tribes to skirt state laws protecting consumers from exorbitant interest rates and other predatory practices.
AG Racine Announces $68 Million Multistate Settlement With UBS For Artificially Manipulating Interest Rates
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a $68 million, 40-state settlement, with UBS for fraudulent conduct involving the manipulation of a critical benchmark interest rate during and after the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
Prepared Remarks: Facebook Enforcement Action Press Call
Delivered by Attorney General Karl A. Racine
CONSUMER ALERT: Protect Your Personal Information on Social Media
Today, Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a lawsuit against Facebook for failing to protect users’ personal information and allowing companies to harvest information without users’ consent.
AG Racine Sues Facebook for Failing to Protect Millions of Users' Data
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today sued Facebook, Inc. for failing to protect its users’ data, enabling abuses like one that exposed nearly half of all District residents’ data to manipulation for political purposes during the 2016 election.