Florida Has Only Settled One Price-Gauging Case Since Irma

During Hurricane Irma, the state of Florida received thousands of price-gouging complaints, but so far Attorney General Pam Bondi's office has settled just one case.

The Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee bureau reported Tuesday Bondi's office received 7,500 complaints in the weeks after the deadly storm struck the state in September.

Her office has settled one case for $25,000. A hotel near Miami International Airport admitted hiking room rates by as much as 138 percent.

Bondi has 10 more active price-gouging cases right now.

Bondi called price-gouging cases "extremely time-intensive," and "we've just gotten started."

But a consumer group questioned why more cases had not been resolved.


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