Washington State

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

SEATTLE – Latinos across Washington state lose thousands of dollars, their jobs and the chance to live legally in the U.S. because of erroneous legal advice and a frequently exploited translation hitch. That’s why the Washington Attorney General’s Office today announced three new settlements with individuals accused of illegally providing immigration advice.
SEATTLE – Latinos en todo el estado de Washington pierden miles de dólares, sus trabajos y la oportunidad de vivir legalmente en los EE.UU. debido a la asesoría legal errónea y una complicación de traducción frecuentemente explotada. La Oficina del Procurador General hoy anunció tres nuevos acuerdos extrajudiciales con personas acusadas de ilegalmente proveer asesoramiento de inmigración.
SEATTLE – The Attorney General’s Office has accused an Arizona company of violating a 3-year-old state law intended to crack down on “trust mill” schemes. The Preservation Group and its founders will offer refunds to more than 60 Washington seniors who purchased living trusts, under a settlement announced today by the Washington Attorney General’s Office.
 Seattle man with prior convictions could be kept behind bars for years OLYMPIA — A new law requested by the state attorney general is already being used by at least one prosecutor to go after some of the most dangerous sexual predators.
SPOKANE – Assistant Attorney General Jack Zurlini does windows. Zurlini, who is spearheading a government push to clear up alleged deceptive sales practices among some window sellers, has negotiated six settlements with Washington businesses in recent months. The latest is Seattle’s Best Home Improvements, actually based in Tacoma.
Ecology Division Chief Mary Sue Wilson today represented Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Wash., asking the Commission to follow federal law and keep the Yucca Mountain facility under consideration as a potential repository for Washington's treated high-level nuclear waste.
SEATTLE – A Redmond-based seller of e-commerce services agreed to change course after customers complained the company promised Web hits but struck out, the Washington Attorney General’s Office announced today.
SEATTLE – The Washington Attorney General’s Office continued its efforts to clear up alleged deceptive marketing practices among window sellers by reaching a settlement this week with Energy Exteriors, of Tacoma.
Health care is an intensely personal issue, whether you have excellent health insurance coverage or whether you risk surviving without it. Predictably, the complex new federal health care reform stirs strong passions from both those who support the measure and those who oppose it — regardless of whether they've read the 2,400 page measure.
 SPOKANE – The Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) announced today that Paige Clark of Spokane pleaded guilty to one count of Medicaid False Statement.

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