These are criminal complaint fines? It mentions that he owes "the state", and not any of his victims. It seems impossible that Hickey will ever be able to scratch 320k together, let alone whatever's coming from the cases his victims bring against him in civil court. I imagine this ruling makes those a pretty open-and-shut case, the only question being how much to award.

@1 these are not criminal complaint fines but instead the state suing in civil court for bad business practices. They ignored the criminal aspect and focused on the consumer protection aspects of the case.

This is the whole point of the article and the case.

Can Hickey just declare bankruptcy?

@3 bankruptcy doesn't get you out from under this sort of debt, afaik

IANAL but "Bankruptcy does not discharge any fine or penalty payable to a governmental unit. There’s one exception. The fee might be dischargeable in bankruptcy if it is meant to reimburse a governmental entity for money it has actually spent, or financial loss it has actually incurred, separate and apart from any related fines and penalties."

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/a…

@4 and @6, well thanks for looking that up for me. Sounds like he's gong to be paying this off for the rest of his life.

So basically he got away with it? Some debt he'll have to work to pay off, but that's that it sounds like.

I'm going with "as far as I know" for @4, there. @6 has me stumped, so I'm just going to go run with "I, anal."

@8, sounds like there are still several criminial cases pending

@8 he's still up on criminal charges
@9 "i am not a lawyer"

For $300k+ he could have gone to Nevada and actually paid some interested women to act out his slutty-aspiring-pornstar-and-seasoned-industry-veteran fantasy, and still had money left over.
Not to mention, not being (rightly) branded a sexual predator.

Good.

btw, I still wanna see his mugshot.

wait.... I just re-read this article & the complete court decision.

he called his fake company New Seattle Talent? As in he was trying to convince people it was an offshoot of the Seattle Talent office on Olive? Can they sue him too?

If he couldn't pay all those parking tickets that he was on the news for in 2009ish, he probably isn't going to be able to pay this, either.