State AG wants to see Tim Eyman’s financial records [View all]

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OLYMPIA – Attorney General Bob Ferguson went to court Thursday to force Tim Eyman to hand over financial records for an investigation into whether the initiative promoter illegally moved money among two campaigns in 2012 and kept some for himself in the process.

Ferguson filed petitions in superior courts in Snohomish and Thurston counties to enforce subpoenas for tax records, bank receipts and correspondences from Eyman, the political committees he controls and the signature-gathering firm Citizen Solutions that was involved in the two campaigns.

Ferguson obtained the subpoenas in November and had receive only a “smattering” of heavily redacted documents in the ensuing months, according to a press release from his office. Eyman’s lawyer indicated he would seek court protection of materials considered privileged but never did so, the release stated
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“Tim Eyman and Citizen Solutions refuse to cooperate with my investigation. I will not accept that,” Ferguson said in a statement.

Mark Lamb, the Bothell attorney representing Eyman, said in an email that he did not turn over his client’s personal tax returns because he did not want them to become public records.

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