Other LanguagesBELLINGHAM — Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a petition today urging a Whatcom County Superior Court judge to civilly commit a sex offender to McNeil Island, preventing his release into the community.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that he recovered more than $5.2 million plus interest that Washingtonians can claim through the state’s unclaimed property program. The money comes to Washington as a result of Ferguson’s lawsuit over uncashed checks issued by international money transfer company MoneyGram.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson partnered with a bipartisan group of eight attorneys general and the federal Department of Justice to file a lawsuit today accusing a national software company of conspiring with landlords to inflate rental prices.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that his office’s civil law enforcement division won more than $2.6 billion in the last decade as a result of lawsuits and its handling of consumer complaints. That includes nearly $800 million for Washingtonians in the form of direct payments, debt relief and consumer credits. The office won another $1.8 billion for increased government and non-profit services, including $1.1 billion to combat the fentanyl epidemic.
TACOMA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a civil rights lawsuit today against a University Place apartment complex for illegal housing discrimination against applicants with disabilities.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., agreed with his lawsuit that technology giant Google unlawfully leverages its dominance in the online search and related text advertising markets through exclusionary contracts, harming both consumers and advertisers.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced his partnership with a bipartisan group of six attorneys general in a federal lawsuit asserting New York-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals inflated the price it charged Medicaid for an important eye medication. The scheme resulted in the submission of tens of thousands of false claims to Medicaid and millions of dollars in losses to the states.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a legally binding resolution requiring Dollar Tree to pay $190,000 and more thoroughly test children’s products. The resolution follows an Attorney General investigation finding school supplies sold by the national retailer had illegal levels of toxic heavy metals lead and cadmium.
OLYMPIA — The public is invited to participate in the first meeting of Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force on Friday, July 26, from 9 a.m. to noon.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s Organized Retail Crime Unit filed two new felony criminal cases today. This marks five prosecutions since Ferguson established the new unit last year.