OLYMPIA, Wash. — A judge has ordered anti-tax activist Tim Eyman to pay a $2.6 million fine.
The Thurston County judge also barred Eyman from having financial control of political committees.
The ruling came in a 2017 lawsuit by Attorney General Bob Ferguson that accused Eyman of soliciting kickbacks, laundering donations and flouting campaign finance law in a long-running scheme to enrich himself.
Ferguson says in a statement that while the ruling doesn’t bar Eyman from producing and promoting future initiatives, it does prevent him from “directing financial kickbacks into his personal bank account.”