Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced today he would empanel a special Rackets Grand Jury, to investigate claims that certain businesses used Hurricane Sandy as an opportunity to commit illegally raise prices and to generate various scams.
“The sad truth about a tragedy is that while it brings out the very best in people, it can also bring out the worst,” said District Attorney Hynes. “To raise the price of a hotel, as people seek emergency shelter is just unconscionable.”
The Grand Jury will investigate claims that businesses, such as hotels and gas stations, committed Grand Larceny by Trick, when they dramatically raised prices in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The Grand Jury will also investigate claims of Grand Larceny by False Promise: scams, like fake charities collecting – and keeping – contributions, or bogus construction companies accepting payments for work they never plan on doing.
Anyone with information concerning storm-related price spikes should call the District Attorney’s Action Center: (718)250-2340.
(YWN Desk – NYC)
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“Larcenous Price Spikes” — your headline writer should go back and look at the story — “Larceny” means theft and the article refers to various false charities and the likes- it does not refer to the price spikes as being larcenous (which would defy the rules of English grammar and common sense)