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Watchdog: DOJ Probe on Landlord Price-Fixing Good News for Price-Gouged Renters

Economic Security and Corporate Power
March 20, 2024

In the latest in a series of Biden administration actions to help lower housing costs for struggling Americans, the U.S. Justice Department is reportedly “opening a criminal investigation” involving property management software company RealPage and some of its corporate landlord clients amid a lawsuit from the District of Columbia Attorney General

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Watchdog: U.S. Chamber Does More Dirty Work For Its Price-Gouging Pharma Members

Economic Security and Corporate Power
March 20, 2024

oday the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is reportedly launching a “seven-figure campaign” to obstruct one of the Biden administration’s major actions to lower prescription drug prices for Americans – a proposal allowing federal agencies to use high prices as a factor to exercise ‘march-in’ rights over a drug or other taxpayer-funded invention that is not

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Watchdog: Conflicted Judge Must Recuse From U.S. Chamber Lawsuit Against CFPB Credit Card Late Fee Rule

Economic Security and Corporate Power
March 14, 2024

Last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in the conservative-friendly Northern District of Texas seeking to block the Biden administration’s historic new rule capping the majority of credit card late fees at $8. A new analysis from government watchdog Accountable.US found the presiding judge, Judge Reed O’Connor, has personally inves

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