Texas AG settles with five motels over Hurricane Dolly price gouging
3/8/2011 3:12 PM By Nick Rees
Abbott
MCALLEN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today resolved five price-gouging cases he filed against South Texas motel operators for their improper conduct during Hurricane Dolly.
Each of the five defendants -- Motel 6-Harlingen, Best Western Las Palmas Inn, Comfort Inn-Edinburg, Comfort Inn-Pharr and Country Hearth Inn & Suites Pharr/McAllen -- entered into an agreed final judgment and permanent injunction.
State investigators discovered that the defendants unlawfully increased the cost of their rooms after Gov. Rick Perry issued a disaster declaration as Hurricane Dolly approached Texas.
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