AG's legal tab in Eyman case nears $1M with trial a year away

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

OLYMPIA — Tim Eyman’s trial for allegedly breaking state campaign finance laws is getting pushed back on the calendar again.

The former Mukilteo resident’s trial, which was set for January, has been moved to July 13, 2020 in Thurston County Superior Court.

In the meantime, the cost of the state’s legal pursuit is averaging more than $40,000 a month and could top $1 million soon.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson has accused Eyman, a Bellevue resident, of secretly moving funds between two initiative campaigns in 2012 and receiving $308,000 in kickbacks from the firm that collected signatures for both measures.

Ferguson filed a lawsuit in March 2017 seeking $1.8 million in penalties plus reimbursement of the funds Eyman received from the signature-gathering firm, Citizen Solutions.

And, if successful, the attorney general also wants the court to bar the anti-tax activist from “managing, controlling, negotiating or directing financial transactions of any kind for any political committee.”

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[LisaM]

1. Money well spent. Eyman's cost the state way more than that.

It'll be a pleasure to see his shenanigans stopped.

[Salviati]

2. Agreed. Fuck tim eyman. The only initiative I would have voted for with his name on it...

... was the one that would have officially declared him a Horse's Ass. It's a shame it never made it to the ballot.