SEATTLE – A federal judge has dismissed claims that the $28 million payout that former Republican Senate hopeful Mike McGavick received when he left Safeco Corp. was fraudulent and wasteful.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman ruled Thursday, saying that the severance payment could have been considered reasonable and that therefore it was in Safeco’s purview to make the deal.
Emma Schwartzman, a Safeco shareholder and a member of a prominent liberal Seattle family, sued McGavick last summer as he was campaigning to unseat Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell.
A Washington State Patrol trooper accused of forcing sex on a woman he pulled over for drunken driving has been charged with custodial sexual misconduct.
Carlos Torres, 44, stopped the woman, identified in court papers as T.G., in June 2005, as she was driving home to Federal Way with her boyfriend and daughter.
But once she was alone and sitting, under arrest, in the back of Torres’ patrol car, the trooper began a flirtation that quickly turned explicit, court papers said.
The State Patrol has turned the investigation of the case over to the FBI.
Torres, who is married and has children, flatly denied the charges when reached at his Dupont home.
Authorities decided the public would be safer with a Woodinville woman in jail and not behind the wheel of a car.
Deana Francine Jarrett, 54, a former Seattle police detective whose breath-alcohol content was measured at nearly six times the legal limit when police stopped her last week for drunken driving, was arrested again Thursday.
After King County prosecutors obtained a warrant for Jarrett, she was arrested at her home by the Washington State Patrol for investigation of being a danger to public safety. She was booked into the King County Jail, with bail set at $250,000.
Jarrett was arrested twice last week in Redmond for investigation of drunken driving, the second time registering a record 0.47 on a field breath-alcohol test, the State Patrol said. The patrol said that was the highest breath-test reading since 1998, out of more than 350,000 tests taken in the state since. The legal limit is 0.08.
Associated Press
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