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Attorney General charges business owners with theft of more than $33,000 from house cleaners

Some of the former employees are owed thousands of dollars in back pay

OLYMPIA — The Attorney General’s Office has filed felony criminal charges against two former Auburn residents, alleging they failed to pay more than $33,000 in wages to 24 employees of their house cleaning businesses in 2017 and 2018. Several employees are owed thousands of dollars in unpaid wages.

Eyman associates ordered to pay $1 million in AG campaign finance case

Citizen Solutions held liable for role in kickback scheme

OLYMPIA — A Thurston County Superior Court judge late yesterday ordered for-profit signature gathering firm Citizen Solutions and its principal, William Agazarm, to collectively pay more than $1 million for their role in deceiving Washingtonians by funneling campaign donations to Tim Eyman.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a campaign finance lawsuit against all three defendants in 2017, accusing Citizen Solutions and Agazarm of unlawfully concealing a $308,185 payment to Eyman.

AG Ferguson: Federal judge blocks Administration’s attempt to remove protections for immigrant children

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement today after a federal judge permanently blocked new Trump Administration rules that remove significant protections against the mistreatment of immigrant children and families apprehended at the U.S. border:

AG Ferguson files lawsuit against Washington companies for unlawful robocalls, deceptive marketing

Court granted restraining order today against companies’ deceptive conduct

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against Vancouver, Wash.-based air duct cleaning companies for unlawfully contacting more than a million Washington consumers with more than 13 million robocalls and sending tens of millions of deceptive mailers to Washingtonians for at least two years, in violation of the Consumer Protection Act.

AG Ferguson sues to block Trump Administration from diverting billions for border wall

Administration wants to take nearly $89 million in construction funds for Bangor sub base

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit today to block the Trump Administration’s plan to “reprogram” funding for more than $3.6 billion in congressionally approved military construction projects to help build a wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico. The plan diverts nearly $89 million from the Kitsap Peninsula’s Bangor submarine base.