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Posted on 06/18/2017 7:44:39 AM PDT by Twotone
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber insisted he broke no laws, and federal prosecutors backed him up Friday, announcing that no criminal charges will be filed against Kitzhaber or his live-in fiancee over allegations she used their relationship to win contracts for her consulting business.
Kitzhaber surrendered to political pressure in February 2015 and resigned over allegations that Hayes used their relationship to win contracts for her green-energy consulting business and failed to report the income on her taxes.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Portland said in a brief statement that the criminal investigation that began more than two years ago is over and that no federal charges will be sought. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum previously announced the state would not bring charges.
"As I have said from the beginning, I did not resign because I was guilty of any wrongdoing but rather because the media frenzy around these questions kept me from being the effective leader I wanted and needed to be," Kitzhaber said in a statement. "Then there was the real investigation, not by reporters, but people with subpoena power and the ability to look at everything in context. They decided there was nothing to pursue."
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Interesting that The Ape Pee doesn’t give us Kitzhaber’s political orientation.
Yeah....Democrats investigating a Democrat...
Ping Salvation :)
“Green-energy consulting business” sounds criminal right there. Looks like they made enough to pay off the right people, anyway.
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Banana Republic of America.
The courts are radicalized....A danger to us all.
What? Someone didn’t pay the influence peddling tax? Why do her tax sins have a thing to do with him?
Perfectly good unicorn breath. What do you mean, a racket?
Pssst! I have seen the future of green energy and it is fossil fuel ;-)
As in save the soul? Or the Urf?
kitzhaber is guilty of that which he was accused. He knew it when he resigned.
A lot of shady things are just this side of legal.
> “Green-energy consulting business” sounds criminal right there. <
I’m going to start a green-energy diversity-friendly safe-space consulting business. I should be a millionaire by this time next year.
Oh please do.
I’d call it a Christian worldview.
But you get paid in heaven.
His “live-in fiancée” that the slobbering Portland media dubbed Oregon’s first lady. Even some liberal Oregonians could see that she was a gold-digging wench, with her claws sunk deeply into the aging, narcissistic Kitzhaber.
Me and Mrs. Hayes.
We got a thing goin’ on.
We both know that it’s wrong.
But it’s much too strong
To let it go now!
As soon as I read the title, I knew this was going to be a Republican.
This is what they are trying to do with Trump.
It won’t work with him.
The democRATS and the liberal media can destroy people and their careers just by innuendo. It doesn't matter one wit that two years later they are cleared by the feds completely, they were still guilty by association and media bias.
The is a good lesson to be learned for the Mueller "investigation".
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