Other LanguagesSEATTLE – The Public Counsel Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office will recommend Friday that the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) continue investigating the so-called “hedging” strategies used by utility companies in their natural gas purchasing strategies. Public Counsel will also further recommend that the WUTC order that certain hedging costs not be passed to customers.
The Washington State Senate today approved a bipartisan measure proposed by Attorney General Bob Ferguson to extend current courthouse protections to all residents accessing the courts.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson today joined 37 other states and the District of Columbia in a $7 million settlement
with search engine giant Google for collecting data from unsecured
wireless networks nationwide while taking photographs for its Street
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BELLINGHAM, WA – March 14, 2013 – The operator of the now-closed Bayside
Café in Bellingham has been charged with the theft of at least $286,000
in sales tax he collected from customers but failed to remit to the
Washington State Department of Revenue.
OLYMPIA-- Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that Washington has joined with other states and the federal government in a $22.5 million settlement with Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. (“Par”). The states allege Par promoted sales of the drug Megace ES for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and not covered by the State Medicaid programs.
The Attorney General’s Office has learned people are receiving e-mails that appear to be from the AGO Webmaster or other “@atg.wa.gov” e-mail addresses with subject lines offering stock tips and other news. These are spoofs to trick people into parting with their personal information or lure them into clicking on a document or link that will infect their computer with viruses or malware.
EVERETT – March 6, 2013 – A Bothell contractor was charged today with
stealing nearly $23,000 in sales tax between 2004 and 2010 and covering
up the theft by filing fraudulent tax returns.
OLYMPIA...Call them scammers, swindlers, fraudsters or grifters. But whatever you do, don’t believe a word they say.
OLYMPIA—The Walla Walla County Superior Court Friday entered a preliminary injunction, ordering several Northwest auto dealerships owned by Mark Gilbert to comply with Washington dealer and consumer protection laws, requiring prompt payoff of customers’ trade-in vehicles.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson this week joined two
friend-of-the court briefs in support of marriage equality in two
landmark cases soon to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.