Price-Gouging Practices: Eric T and Cab Driver

price-gouging practices: It is a 40-kilometre ride to a new life, for which the going rate is 50 to 75 U.S. . But one cab driver was charging 100 to 300 in cash, depending on his mood, according to Hamilton Spectator. And his passengers were not in a position to complain. Migrants lacking legal status in the United States have been fleeing to Canada by taking buses to Plattsburgh, N.Y, and then hailing taxis to a country road that dead-ends in an unofficial border crossing. But after a two-month investigation into the price-gouging practices of several taxi companies ferrying passengers to the border in Champlain, the New York state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, announced Wednesday that he had obtained a court order against Christopher Ray Crowningshield, the owner and operator of Northern Taxi. He must also post fares in the two taxis he operates, cannot charge more than 10 times the Plattsburgh maximum fare, 7.50, and must call the attorney general's office each time he picks up a passenger headed for Roxham Road. Crowningshield had to pay the state 2,500. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.