MULKILTEO, Wash.- Tim Eyman has talked in the past about mortgaging his home to help pay for voter initiatives, but now he’s selling it to help pay off debts.
The anti-tax initiative promoter has sold his share of a house in Mulkilteo to his ex-wife for about $900,000.
The Seattle Times reports he’ll have to use the proceeds to help pay off more than $5.6 million he owes the state of Washington in penalties and legal fees.
A Thurston County judge fined Eyman $2.6 million in 2021 after finding he had illegally laundered campaign donations to enrich himself, took kickbacks and committed other campaign finance violations.
He was later ordered to pay $2.9 million to Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office to cover its legal expenses from the lawsuit against him.
Eyman has called the judgements “ridiculously unconstitutional and absurdly excessive.”