WASHINGTON, DC – Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today testified before the DC Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, chaired by the Honorable Brooke Pinto, on the Safe Neighborhoods Amendment Act of 2024.

Attorney General Schwalb’s testimony is available here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine has introduced legislation to the Council of the District of Columbia to make “sextortion” a crime. The “Sexual Extortion Amendment Act of 2017” will expand the District’s definition of extortion to include sextortion, an emerging form of exploitation that occurs when a person obtains sexually explicit images of an individual and threatens to release them unless their demands (monetary, sexual, or otherwise) are met.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today joined a coalition of eight Attorneys General in filing a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration rule that would make it easier for predatory lenders to bypass state interest rate caps.

WASHINGTON, DC – Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb led a coalition of seven attorneys general in filing a brief in League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose opposing an Ohio law that makes it a crime, in most situations, to help others return absentee ballots. The law makes it a felony to return or possess another voter’s absentee ballot unless you are a postal worker or one of a narrow set of family members, which would make it more difficult for millions of people—especially those with disabilities—to vote.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine and a coalition of 12 other attorneys general have secured a federal court ruling requiring new national energy efficiency standards go into effect. The coalition of attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last June for unlawfully refusing to implement the standards.

Washington, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a lawsuit against a group of auto repair and sales businesses located in Ward 5 for repeatedly spilling toxic oil onto neighborhood sidewalks and streets, the culmination of a pattern of environmental violations spanning a decade.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced a coalition of 51 Attorneys General reached an $86.3 million settlement with Mr. Cooper, a mortgage servicer, resolving allegations that the company violated consumer protection laws while servicing mortgage loans nationwide. The coalition negotiated the settlement alongside state mortgage regulators and the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which filed separate settlement documents.