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Bob Ferguson

AG Ferguson: Nation’s largest subprime auto financing company to pay up to $6.4M to Washingtonians

Thousands of Washingtonians will receive relief

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that Santander Consumer USA Inc., the nation’s largest subprime auto financing company, will pay as much as $6.4 million to Washingtonians in the form of cash relief and loan forgiveness, following a years-long, multistate investigation into its lending and loan servicing practices.

AG Ferguson files Clean Water Act lawsuit against gold mining companies

Buckhorn mine releases pollutants into previously untouched streams

SPOKANE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a federal lawsuit against two gold mining companies for violating the Clean Water Act and discharging illegal levels of pollutants into creeks in Okanogan County flowing into the Kettle River. The companies could face millions of dollars in penalties for Clean Water Act violations.

AG Ferguson: Seattle Pain Center to pay back $1.1 million to state Medicaid program over excessive urine tests

Seattle Pain Center providers routinely charged Medicaid for unnecessary urine tests

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that Seattle Pain Center, a shuttered network of eight pain clinics formerly owned by Dr. Frank Li, will pay $1.1 million to Washington’s Medicaid program.

AG Ferguson to telecom companies: Protect consumers struggling financially during the pandemic

Ferguson worked with a bipartisan group of AGs to call on the FCC to support their effort

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson and a bipartisan group of 27 attorneys general are calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to join them in urging the telecommunications industry to expand commitments to protect consumers who are struggling financially as a result of COVID-19.