April 23, 2021
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Gov. Jay Inslee directed Attorney General Bob Ferguson today to investigate Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer for potential criminal violations in late January when the sheriff called 911 and claimed that a black man in his neighborhood had threatened to kill him. This action is taken pursuant to RCW 43.10.230 and .232, which authorizes the governor to grant the attorney general concurrent authority and power with local prosecuting authorities.
In a letter sent to John Hillman, of the Criminal Justice Division in the Office of the Attorney General, Inslee references Tacoma Police Incident No. 2102700104; Investigation of False Reporting (RCW 9A.84.040) and/or other criminal violations of the Revised Code of Washington occurring on or about January 27, 2021 by Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer.
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‘Widespread failure to comply’: Why Washington state’s AG is suing Google, again
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Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong)
[Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in journalist Eli Sanders’ “Wild West” newsletter, which covers internet-related legal issues.
University of Washington law student Tallman Trask (Photo via Wild West newsletter)
Now consider how long Tallman Trask, a second-year law student at the University of Washington, has been waiting to receive information from Google about all the political ads the company sold targeting Washington state’s elections in 2019.
Under Washington state law, the information Trask is seeking should have been easily available to him within 24 hours of each Google ad’s original distribution. But Trask has now been waiting 16 months and, according to a lawsuit filed last week by Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Trask still hasn’t
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Since 2018, attorneys general in every state, D.C., and several U.S. territories have coordinated with the Federal Trade Commission and the National Association of State Charities Officials to combat veterans’ fundraising fraud. The joint initiative Operation Donate with Honor targets fraudulent charities that claim to use their donations to help America’s veterans and groups, but in actuality enrich the charities’ founders and professional fundraisers. Consequently, the joint initiative has resulted in over 100 enforcement actions.
As part of this larger joint effort with federal regulators, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson led 11 state attorneys general earlier this month to reached a settlement with Florida-based nonprofit Healing Heroes Network and its former directors for allegedly misrepresenting that consumers’ donations would provide medical care for wounded veterans, when in fact little of the