KGMI News
BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Former State Attorney General and Republican candidate for Governor Rob McKenna did not appear in court for an ethics hearing Thursday after all.
That’s because the hearing over something McKenna said to KGMI that was scheduled for the morning in Whatcom Superior Court was cancelled.
McKenna is representing Bellingham businessman Tyler Ryan, who’s accused of raping a 13-year-old girl.
The prosecutor’s office complained that McKenna should not have told KGMI Ryan is innocent, will be exonerated and that he passed a polygraph test.
In the same KGMI interview, McKenna omitted the fact that Ryan had failed a polygraph test at the Sheriff’s Department.
In court documents Deputy Prosecutor Eric Richey accused McKenna of pulling a “media stunt” and launching a “campaign to prejudice Whatcom County’s jury pool.”
Richey is now saying the hearing was cancelled because the two sides reached an agreement, but he wouldn’t elaborate.