OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna’s office has settled a lawsuit filed against the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties over violations of the state’s campaign finance disclosure law.
Under the settlement filed Monday in Thurston County Superior Court, the association is fined $300,000, with half of that suspended if the group avoids any campaign finance law missteps between now and the end of 2016. The association must also pay $40,000 in attorney fees.
McKenna says the settlement “preserves the value of the state’s campaign finance disclosure laws.”
Association Executive Officer Sam Anderson says his group has done everything the state asked of it and decided $150,000 was “a manageable fine for us.” And he adds, “We want to comply with the law.”
