No ruling yet on request for $2.8M in legal fees from Eyman
OLYMPIA — A Thurston County judge on Friday continued a hearing on Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s request for $2.8 million in legal fees and costs related to his lawsuit against initiative promoter Tim Eyman.
Superior Court Judge James Dixon granted a request from Eyman’s attorney for more time to review thousands of billings contained in the state’s claim. The new date is April 16.
On Feb. 10, Ferguson won a resounding victory in his four-year legal pursuit of Eyman when Dixon hit the conservative activist with a $2.6 million fine for repeated violations of state law and imposed restrictions on his role in future ballot measure campaigns.
Dixon levied the penalty after finding Eyman illegally moved money between unrelated initiative campaigns in 2012, engineered a $308,000 kickback from a signature-gathering firm involved in those initiatives and failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions.
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