{"id":1671,"date":"2015-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/attorney-general-confirms-volkswagen-investigation-on-behalf-of-washington-consumers\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:25:33","slug":"attorney-general-confirms-volkswagen-investigation-on-behalf-of-washington-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/attorney-general-confirms-volkswagen-investigation-on-behalf-of-washington-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General confirms Volkswagen investigation on behalf of Washington consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Thursday released the following statement in connection with a state investigation of Volkswagen:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cWhile we typically do not confirm or deny the existence of an ongoing investigation, it has already been reported that Washington is part of a multi-state investigation involving 30 other state attorneys generals who are investigating Volkswagen\u2019s alleged use of \u2018defeat devices\u2019 in their TDI Clean Diesel engines,&#8221; Ferguson said in a media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cI intend to thoroughly investigate this matter and protect the economic and environmental interests of Washington state consumers. That is all the information I can share at this time.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Thursday released the following statement in connection with a state investigation of Volkswagen:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":1672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}