Posted on 11/03/2025 11:33:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Former Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside Credit: Fireside Campaign/Daily Mail A former Democrat lawmaker from Oregon has apparently taken advantage of soft criminal laws her party has passed over the years and escaped justice.
As The Daily Mail reported, 44-year-old Melissa Fireside crossed the U.S. border with her young son after her former partner discovered she had taken the 9-year-old out of school last Wednesday.
She then booked a flight from Mexico to Amsterdam. It’s unclear whether she is residing in the Dutch city.
Fireside, who served as a Clackamas County Commissioner, is accused of trying to scam her mother’s 83-year-old boyfriend out of $30,000. She resigned from her role after being charged with fraud.
Fireside was due to stand trial on first-degree theft charges in December. But she fled after being released on bail.
More from the Daily Mail:
Officials found she was no longer living at an address given to bail officers.
She is believed to have had a flight from Mexico to Amsterdam booked for last Thursday.
Fireside, who was only elected to the commissioner role last November, has an Austrian passport that is valid until 2032. Oregon Department of Justice spokesman Jerry Gorman says it was unclear how Fireside was able to obtain that document.
The passport enables its holder to live and move freely between all 27 member states of the European Union, meaning Fireside is not limited to staying in Austria.
The Mail reveals that Fireside allegedly posed as her mother’s boyfriend, Arthur W. Petrone, to obtain a $21,000 bank loan and a $9,000 credit card advance using a forged signature.
Petrone was a retired supermarket worker living in an assisted living facility at the time. He died in August.
Investigators then discovered evidence that Fireside had created an email in Petrone’s name to attempt to secure a $35,000 loan. She was turned down for that amount due to Petrone’s limited finances, but she still received $21,000.
Petrone’s daughter, Lynn Roberts, explained that her dad was in no condition to take out such a large loan.
Fireside allegedly used $29,000 of the stolen cash to pay back a loan to Oregon State Representative April Dobson.
Dobson claimed she agreed to the loan because she felt sympathy for Fireside as “a single mother.”
However, it’s unknown why or whether Fireside needed the cash in the first place. After all, she has a $900,000 home in Lake Oswego, a tony Portland suburb.
Perhaps she had grown so accustomed to ‘legally’ stealing from Oregon taxpayers that she thought she could get away with it the ‘old-fashioned’ way.
She can be tried in absentia, and, if convicted, could be extradited depending on the extradition treaties that might apply.
The elderly boyfriend must have been one of those “rich” people who wasn’t paying his “fair share.”
Police would like to have a Fireside chat.
Couldn’t get $$$ via divorce court so had to get it the old fashioned way via fraud?
30,000? She sold out cheap. Imaging nuking your life for 30,000. That hoe sold herself out cheap. Dipshit.
Not surprised. It’s what democrats do.
Hmm. She seems kind of attractive, but those eyes convey an ice pick in the side of the head while in bed having sex.
Bass turd liberals are bigger crooks than their beloved illegal alien slob freeloaders.
No kidding. I was expecting a few more zeros to that number.
“..That hoe sold herself out cheap. Dipshit....”
Yep. She should have taken “lessons” from the professional AWFULs lik Pelosi, AOC, etc.....she could have been waaaayyyyyy better off.
Agreed...
30K ain’t much for a Fugitive Life.
So sorry single mother.
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She seems nice.........🤔...
She doesn’t have to worry about the single mother thing. Sounds like that dad has custodial rights since it came to his attention that the kid was missing from school. The Netherlands is a signatory to The Hague Convention, meaning dad should be able to get an order that mom has kidnapped the kid and ordering the kid returned to Oregon, and the Dutch would enforce that order
I hope she is also charged for those Sharpied-on eyebrows, those are a crime.
She looks like a schemer.
She ain’t in the Netherlands anymore. She has an Austrian passport and can move to any of the 27 EU countries.
I agree, she should do jail time for those eyebrows alone.
Democrap doing what democraps do. She could have made more on her back probably.
Tattooed.................
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