WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced today that he has settled a lawsuit against Unlimited Technology and Solution Corporation (UTS) and its owner, Mardoqueo M. Sanchez, for engaging in unlawful immigrant-consultant services. The $250,000 settlement in this so-called notario fraud case will provide restitution to consumers in immigrant communities, as well as civil penalties to the District.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a $470 million joint state-federal settlement with mortgage lender and servicer HSBC to address mortgage origination, servicing, and foreclosure abuses. The settlement includes the District of Columbia and 49 other states, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

The settlement will provide several forms of relief to eligible borrowers in the District and safeguards against future abuses. They include:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Attorney General Karl A.

WASHINGTON, DC – Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today joined a bipartisan coalition of 22 Attorneys General in opposing a proposed class action settlement that fails to adequately hold the 3M Company (3M) accountable for contaminating the nation’s drinking water supply. Under the proposed settlement, water providers would withdraw the hundreds of lawsuits they have filed against 3M over its use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — commonly referred to as “PFAS” or toxic “forever chemicals” — in a wide range of consumer products and firefighting foams.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled in the District’s favor that CityCenterDC, which is a private development that was constructed on District-owned land leased to private developers, is not a “public work” and thus is not subject to the federal Davis-Bacon Act. The Court agreed with the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) that the Act’s provisions do not apply to CityCenterDC. OAG attorneys successfully argued that the federal Department of Labor overreached when it attempted to apply the Davis-Bacon Act to the project.

Statement of Karl A. Racine
Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Before the Committee on the Judiciary
The Honorable Kenyan McDuffie, Chairperson
Public Hearing

Bill 21-442, the “Political Action Committee Contribution Regulation Amendment Act of 2015”
Bill 21-509, the “Citizens Fair Election Program Amendment Act of 2015”
Bill 21-511, the “Clean Elections Amendment Act of 2015”
Bill 21-565, the “Elucidating Your Elections Amendment Act of 2016”
Bill 21-622, the “Campaign Finance Transparency and Accountability Amendment Act of 2016”

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine has joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in a letter to Senate leaders expressing “strong opposition” to a bill that would jeopardize the health, safety, and well-being of the American public.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today led a group of 16 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief defending the Illinois Way Forward Act (the “Act”), which prohibits state and local governments from contracting with the federal government to detain individuals for civil immigration violations. Two Illinois counties that want to continue providing their facilities for federal civil immigration detention sued the state to try to block the Act.