OLYMPIA — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson today urged legislative action on bills to regulate vapor products and to raise the legal age for tobacco products to 21, citing new reports underscoring the danger of tobacco and other nicotine products.
SEATTLE — The Attorney General’s Office Consumer Protection Division has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a Seattle venue who knowingly booked events, including many weddings, they knew they could not actually hold at the venue.
In a complaint filed in King County Superior Court yesterday, Roland and Amanda Crane are accused of violating the Washington Consumer Protection Act.
This release is compliments of the Washington State Department of Revenue
OLYMPIA — The owner of a local auto glass repair shop was in Snohomish County Superior Court yesterday to admit his guilt in filing false business tax returns and stealing thousands of dollars in sales tax.
Andrew V. Onufreychuk pled guilty to first degree theft and agreed to pay $142,000 in taxes owed the state from two of his businesses.
Protects businesses from bad faith predatory claims of patent infringement; gives Attorney General’s Office legal enforcement authority
OLYMPIA — Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has proposed the Patent Troll Prevention Act to protect the rights of legitimate patent holders and crack down on deceptive and predatory patent troll practices.
KELSO — A Cowlitz County Superior Court judge today denied release to a sex offender after prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit (SVP) proved that he remains mentally ill and sexually dangerous.
Troy Belcher, 30, has been convicted of two sexually violent offenses: second degree rape by forcible compulsion in 1989, and attempted second degree rape in 2000.
SPOKANE — A Spokane man convicted last year of first-degree rape was sentenced today to at least 24 years, seven months in prison, and could remain in custody for life.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today commented on the release by a U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) contractor of an Implementation Plan for Hanford Tank Vapor Assessment Report Recommendations.
“Friend-of-court” brief joined by 11 other states and the District of Columbia
Proposes legislation to prohibit wage theft violators from doing business with the state
OLYMPIA — Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has proposed bipartisan legislation that would prohibit businesses that have repeatedly or willfully violated the state’s wage payment laws during the past three years from doing business with Washington state.
OLYMPIA — Dealing with a heartbreaking Super Bowl loss is bad enough. But we’ve also heard reports of fans buying tickets from brokers, only to find out the brokers did not even have the tickets they purported to sell.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson reminds Seahawks fans that if this happened to them, they should contact the Attorney General’s Office and file a complaint. The office will review all complaints to determine whether individual brokers’ actions violated Washington State’s Consumer Protection Act.
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