Tax protester Tim Eyman files for bankruptcy as legal troubles persist
Tim Eyman filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, adding a new wrinkle to the anti-tax crusader’s legal saga.
Eyman and Citizen Solutions, a signature-gathering outfit, have been fighting a lawsuit brought last year by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. In an email Eyman sent to supporters and journalists, he said the lawsuit has taxed his finances and family to the breaking point.
“While the AG has had unlimited resources to assign teams of taxpayer-financed lawyers to bury me and my attorneys in an endless maze of motions and procedures, my legal costs have had to be funded privately (from my family’s limited resources and from financial support from folks like you),” Eyman wrote.
Eyman filed under Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington in an attempt to protect his financial assets while defending himself against the state. According to the filing, Eyman has a bit more than $2 million in assets against liabilities of nearly $3.2 million. The state of Washington is cited as being owed nearly all of the $3,177,000. Other creditors include the Seattle law firm Klinedinst, which is owed $77,000 in legal fees.
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After all of his attempts to bankrupt the state, all I can say is, "Too bad, so sad."
