OLYMPIA — A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled today that Tim Eyman has committed more than 100 violations of multiple Washington state campaign finance laws by concealing $766,447 in political contributions. Eyman faces significant potential penalties which will be determined in July.
On Sept. 30, 2019, Judge Dixon found that Citizen Solutions and its principal, William Agazarm, broke the law, and ordered them to pay more than $1 million for their role in deceiving Washingtonians. In his order, Judge Dixon wrote that Agazarm “personally approved Citizen Solutions’ kickback payment” to Eyman.
The people passed Washington state’s campaign finance transparency laws by initiative in 1972. The law requires disclosure of all political contributions, details of those contributions above a certain threshold, and also the nature of how those contributions are expended.
Alvin Batiste, Jr. is a judge of the 18th Judicial District, Division C in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. He was elected to this position on November 5, 2002, taking office the following January. He was re-elected in 2014 for a term beginning on January 1, 2015, and expiring on December 31, 2020.
Batiste graduated with a B.S. in economics from Southern University in 1976, going on to receive his J.D. from Southern University Law Center in 1981. He was admitted to the Louisiana State Bar that same year.