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Attorney General’s Office opposed habeas corpus petition by convicted Spokane South Hill rapist
A federal judge in Tacoma has agreed with the Attorney General's Office that convicted South Hill rapist Kevin Coe is not entitled to a new trial. Coe will remain confined at the state’s Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson is warning consumers that phone scammers posing as legitimate computer technicians are on the prowl in Washington and other states across the country.
“These scammers claim to be calling to help resolve problems that have been detected on the consumer’s personal computer, such as harmful viruses or malware,” warned Ferguson. “What they really want is access to your computer and, ultimately, your money.”
KENNEWICK — At the request of Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the Benton County District Court today ordered defendant Brandon Traner to pay the state $144,000 for the cleanup of a fishing trawler that Traner was recently convicted of abandoning in the Columbia River. Ferguson’s office obtained the first derelict vessel conviction in Washington state last month after Traner’s trawler, the M/V Forus, sank and released 50 gallons of diesel fuel and 8 gallons of motor and hydraulic oils into the Columbia,
Former corrections officer sentenced for sexual misconduct
OLYMPIA — A former Franklin County corrections officer will spend nearly a year in jail and have to register as a sex offender because of sexual misconduct with two inmates in the Franklin County Jail.
Justin Thomas Husom was sentenced Sept. 12 in Franklin County Superior Court to 10 months in jail for first-degree custodial sexual misconduct, a Class C felony.
SEATTLE – Attorney General Bob Ferguson has invited attorneys from around the state to meet with him about volunteering to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children.
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson has joined the latest effort to stop child sex trafficking on Backpage.com.
Joint release with Better Business Bureau
The Washington State Office of Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau have joined together to help consumers avoid a school book scam making the rounds to schools in Washington and across the country.
School employees have reported receiving official-looking invoices from a fake company called Scholastic School Supply for some books, often math workbooks, they did not order and have not received.
OLYMPIA — The Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) recently convicted healthcare providers in four separate Medicaid fraud cases, holding accountable four defendants who did not provide the care they were paid to provide to elderly and other vulnerable adults.
“It is deplorable that fraudsters take advantage of the most vulnerable among us for financial gain,” said Attorney General Ferguson. “My office will hold healthcare providers accountable who fail to provide adequate care for vulnerable people and commit Medicaid fraud.”
OLYMPIA – Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the state will not extend today’s deadline for resolving the dispute with the U.S Department of Energy over cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation. The state has extended the deadline twice already since negotiations began in March.
With the conclusion of the dispute resolution period, the state has 30 days in which it may file a motion in the U.S. District Court, unless an agreement is reached with the Department of Energy on key terms for Hanford cleanup..
OLYMPIA — In a push to protect the civil rights of same-sex couples nationwide, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and 14 other state Attorneys General are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear three marriage equality cases.
“Same-sex couples in too many states remain unable to marry,” said Ferguson. “It is time for the Supreme Court to weigh in on this critical civil rights issue and rule once and for all that state bans on gay marriage are unconstitutional.”
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