Pair left elderly Washington in-home patient without proper healthcare services for several months while claiming payments in North Carolina

Courtesy of the Department of Revenue 

SEATTLE – Nov. 21, 2013   The owner of a King County landscaping business pleaded guilty to stealing $112,572 in sales tax she collected from customers from 2006 through 2011.

SPOKANE — The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has filed a lawsuit against an Internet based company in Colville, Wash. for violations of the Consumer Protection Act.

The company, Western By Design, LLC, goes by the name of ‘1880 Western Wear.’ They are an online retailer that sells western clothing wear and apparel.

The AGO sued them for:

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a major breakthrough in the fight against ‘mobile cramming’ — unauthorized third-party charges that appear on mobile telephone bills. Cramming on cell phones and landlines is estimated to cost Americans $2 billion per year.

Courtesy of the Washington State Dept. of Labor and Industries 

 TUMWATER — The owner of a foreign-language interpreter service pleaded guilty Monday in a scheme that authorities say cost Washington state hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Philip Ward, 41, of Mountlake Terrace, pleaded guilty in Thurston County Superior Court to three counts of first-degree theft.  Ward’s wife, Kitzia Huerta, 37, pleaded guilty in October to one count of first-degree theft in the same case.

Award recognizes attorneys with exceptional achievements early in their careers

OLYMPIA - Attorney General Bob Ferguson has selected six assistant attorneys general to receive the 2013 William V. Tanner Award for outstanding achievements early in their careers.  Ferguson established the new award this year in honor of the youngest Attorney General in state history.

Award recognizes extraordinary contributions to furthering justice in Washington

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson has honored Senior Counsel Andy Fitz with the Attorney General’s 2013 Steward of Justice Award. The award recognizes assistant attorneys general who further the cause of justice through exceptional legal work and extraordinary contributions to the people of Washington.   

OLYMPIA — This afternoon in Thurston County Superior Court, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) amended its lawsuit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). The amended complaint increases the amount the state alleges the GMA collected from its members to oppose Initiative 522 without complying with Washington’s campaign finance laws from $7.2 million to $10.6 million.

OLYMPIA – A three-judge panel in the Division II Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of a former Department of Defense and Port Orchard police officer who threatened his live-in girlfriend with a gun and pushed her out of a second-story window in 2010.
 
The officer’s girlfriend fractured her right ankle and shoulder and suffered a brain injury in the fall. She spent five weeks in the hospital, underwent multiple surgeries and remains confined to a wheelchair.
 

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson led a coalition of 34 states and one territory today in filing a 'friend of the court' brief in the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue in the case, Paroline v. Amy Unknown and the United States, No.