Flawed plan gives Sackler family lifetime legal shield

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today he will appeal Purdue Pharma’s flawed bankruptcy plan. Ferguson asserts that the plan is inadequate, and that a bankruptcy court doesn’t have the authority to prevent attorneys general from enforcing state law, including the decision to pursue the company’s owners, the Sackler family, for their illegal conduct.

Ending exclusive contracts with area medical clinics saves patients money

AG’s project results in 345 DNA samples collected from registered sex offenders, finds 225 uncollectable; 65 remain uncollected

Housing counselors will explain new federal protections for homeowners that start Aug. 31

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced the team that will facilitate the Washington State Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIW/P) Task Force. Legislative appointments to the task force are expected later this month.

CHEHALIS — A Lewis County Superior Court judge entered an order of commitment Friday to civilly commit a sex offender after the Washington Attorney General’s Office filed a petition to remove him from community custody.

Blake Juan Garcia, 25, was convicted of child molestation in the first degree in 2010 and in the second degree in 2014. Garcia was in community custody in Lewis and King counties and had violated the terms of his release.

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement after two key legal victories on Friday in Washington’s case against opioid distributors McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp.

“We won two more key victories in our case against the three largest opioid distributors for their role fueling the opioid epidemic by shipping hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders into Washington state.

Judge orders J&J to produce 100,000 documents the corporation has been hiding for years
 
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson offers the following statement on a recent ruling in his lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson:

Ming’s Asian Gallery & Antiques and its owner plead guilty after illegally selling elephant ivory, marine turtle

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that a King County antique business and one of its owners pleaded guilty to trafficking in species threatened with extinction under a voter-approved initiative banning the sale or transfer of products made from certain endangered species.

Settlement spreads payment out over nearly two decades