Washington pays off $100 million competency fine ahead of schedule
Washington paid off the $100 million contempt fine ordered in July 2023 months ahead of the court-mandated schedule, a move advocates and state officials both pointed to as a sign of improving compliance after nearly a decade of sanctions in the Trueblood case.
At that point the state had paid roughly $400 million in cumulative Trueblood-related fines since 2017, with an additional $290.6 million held in abeyance under the original 2018 settlement — figures that gave a sense of the case's total financial scale even as the underlying system kept struggling with demand.
Source: Washington pays $100M fine for neglecting mental health services months earlier than expected — Washington State Standard, by Grace Deng
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