OLYMPIA—Assistant Attorneys General Brooke Burbank and Kristie Barham with the AG’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit won a civil commitment case that prevents the unconditional release of a dangerous sexually violent predator into the community.
SEATTLE – The Public Counsel Section of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office today filed an appeal challenging the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission’s approval of Avista’s last electric and gas rate general rate increases that took effect on Jan. 1.
OLYMPIA—Four bills requested by Attorney General Rob McKenna are scheduled for public hearings this week.
Washington residents have been victims of fake job offers and computer malware
SEATTLE – Unemployed workers in Washington and the rest of the country are targets for crooks posing as headhunters, the Attorney General’s Office warned today. Scams include bogus job offers and realistic-looking e-mail messages that contain links to computer viruses or phishing sites.
Attorney General warns Washington residents to beware of cons, unregistered contractors and flood cars
SEATTLE – The Attorney General’s Office today issued a warning about schemes targeting Washington residents whose homes were damaged by recent floods.
Student killed in 1994 murder at Ballard High School
OLYMPIA—Attorney General Rob McKenna today applauded the U.S. Supreme Court for reinstating the murder convictions of an accomplice in a gang-related drive-by shooting at Seattle’s Ballard High School.
“Today’s decision helps brings closure to the family of a girl murdered on the steps of her high school,” McKenna said. “Our office argued, and the Supreme Court agreed, that the convictions for the accomplice in this despicable drive-by were constitutional.”
OLYMPIA – Two bills requested by Attorney General Rob McKenna that would protect Washington consumers are scheduled for public hearings this week.
The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a public hearing concerning HB 1132 at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, in the John L. O’Brien building, House Hearing Room A.
AG’S office charges Spokane woman for defrauding Medicaid
Spokane--The Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has charged a Spokane County woman with overbilling the Medicaid program that provides health care services funding for low-income citizens.
Settlement resolves allegations of improper marketing of anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa
OLYMPIA -- Attorney General Rob McKenna announced today that Washington state has joined with other states and the federal government in reaching an agreement in principle with Eli Lilly and Company to settle allegations it engaged in an off-label marketing campaign to improperly promote the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.
Eastern Washington families lost their homes to felon and his wife
SPOKANE – The Washington Attorney General’s Office is suing a convicted equity skimmer a second time, claiming the Colfax man and his wife ran a real estate investment business that misled distressed homeowners and property investors.
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