WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that he introduced legislation to improve public safety and increase fairness by modernizing the process for charging juveniles in adult court.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced he filed a complaint against two District nonprofit entities and a long-standing officer and director of those entities for disregarding the nonprofits’ governing requirements and diverting nonprofit funds for the officer’s personal benefit, instead of using those funds to further the nonprofits’ purpose of supporting education in the foreign services. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl Racine today announced a settlement requiring three real estate firms—DARO Management Services, DARO Realty, and Infinity Real Estate—and several individual defendants to pay a landmark $10 million in penalties for illegally discriminating against renters in the District who use Section 8 housing vouchers and other forms of housing assistance. This is the largest civil penalty in a housing discrimination case in U.S. history.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced today that he has filed a brief with the D.C. Court of Appeals challenging last year’s decision by the District’s Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve a merger between Exelon and Pepco Holdings, Inc. on terms of the PSC’s choosing. The brief asks the court to direct the PSC instead to approve the merger on the terms that the Attorney General and others had negotiated with the companies to promote the public interest.