Tim Eyman ordered to pay $2.9 million to reimburse taxpayers, attorney general says
By Q13 News Staff
Tim Eyman ordered to pay $2.9 million to reimburse taxpayers, attorney general says
A Thurston County judge ordered anti-tax initiative promoter Tim Eyman to pay nearly $2.9 million back to taxpayers for costs and fees related to a campaign finance lawsuit.
OLYMPIA, Wash. - A Thurston County judge ordered anti-tax initiative promoter Tim Eyman to pay nearly $2.9 million back to taxpayers for costs and fees related to a campaign finance lawsuit.
That is in addition to the $2.6 million in penalties Eyman was ordered to pay back in February.
March 15, 2021
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson wants an additional $2.8 million in legal fees and costs related to his lawsuit against anti-tax initiative promoter Tim Eyman.
Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon already granted Ferguson’s office legal fees in the case when he ruled against Eyman last month. A hearing on Ferguson’s specific request for $2.8 million is scheduled for next week.
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Eyman, in a fundraising email sent in response, said that last year the Attorney General’s Office, responding to a public records request, said it had spent $1.4 million on the case, through September 2020.
Eyman pays $10,000 to the state on the fifth of each month, as part of a court-approved payment plan, a total that will increase to $13,500 next year and continue for the foreseeable future.
Washington wants additional $2.8M in legal fees from Eyman By David Gutman, The Seattle Times
Published: March 13, 2021, 7:43pm
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SEATTLE – The hits keep coming for Tim Eyman.
A month ago, a judge ruled the veteran initiative promoter and conservative activist has been a yearslong, egregious violator of state campaign finance law, fined him $2.6 million and barred him for life from participating in the financial aspects of political campaigns. Now the bill for the court case is coming due.
State Attorney General Bob Ferguson wants an additional $2.8 million in legal fees and costs, after his lawsuit against Eyman dragged on for nearly four years due to what Ferguson called Eyman’s “cost-inflating, frivolous, obstructive and defiant litigation tactics.”
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