The trouble is, I’m not even sure the accusation makes any sense. It sounds like an accusation based on technological illiteracy.
What’s a “dummy webpage”? If an html file displays, it’s a webpage. There’s no such thing as a “dummy webpage”, unless the accusation is that they made paper images or graphics files of the design of webpages for which they hadn’t yet written the html code and told people they were images of the webpages, which is absurd because that would take more effort than writing the html code.
It may well be that they created webpages without functional scripts to run the back end of the project, but unless they asserted that the back end was written, displaying what the site would look like would not constitute fraud. Nor could it create the false impression that the project was further along unless the persons to whom it was presented knew nothing about web design or programming and entered the meeting with the delusion that the user-interface somehow had to be designed or programmed last — in which case there’s still no fraud, just the Feds sending fools to look into how Oregon was doing on the project.
Doesn’t everyone know that under this administration prisons aren’t for DIMs/LIBs?
The accusation is they lied about the condition of the process of the development of the webpage in order to continue funding subsidy.
My bet is, they did just that. False proof of performance.