{"id":1921723,"date":"2023-04-30T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-secretary-of-state-shemia-fagan-under-fire-for-alleged-ethics-violations\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:12:45","slug":"oregon-secretary-of-state-shemia-fagan-under-fire-for-alleged-ethics-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-secretary-of-state-shemia-fagan-under-fire-for-alleged-ethics-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan Under Fire for Alleged Ethics Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foregon-secretary-of-state-shemia-fagan-under-fire-for-alleged-ethics-violations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Oregon Secretary of State Under Fire for Moonlighting as Cannabis Industry Consultant<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0430\/37ad0bf0-50ff-411b-88ba-c2db56b42723\/audio.mp3?length=4552173&#038;duration=379\"><\/div>\n<p>Shemia Fagan, the Oregon Secretary of State, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-health-officials-refuse-to-reveal-data-behind-lockdown-reversal\/\" title=\"Calif. health officials refuse to reveal data behind lockdown reversal\">facing backlash<\/a> after it was revealed that she had been working as a consultant for the cannabis industry while her office was conducting an audit that favored the industry. The audit results called for less regulation and financial assistance for the industry&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>Fagan claims that she recused herself from the audit of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) before taking the contract. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-secretary-of-state-shemia-fagan-under-fire-for-alleged-ethics-violations\/\" title=\"Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan Under Fire for Alleged Ethics Violations\">recusal allegedly occurred<\/a> after the audit was substantially finished.<\/p>\n<p>This controversy comes on the heels of two other scandals involving Fagan, including an investigation into $500,000 in campaign contributions from an entity connected with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to the Democrat Party of Oregon, and another scandal related to OLCC, which Fagan oversees.<\/p>\n<h2>DOJ and Ethics Commission Investigate<\/h2>\n<p>The news prompted Oregon Governor Tina Kotek to call for two investigations\u2014one by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission into Fagan&#8217;s actions and another by the Department of Justice (DOJ) into the audit. Fagan responded with a statement welcoming the investigations, saying that the facts will restore trust in their audits division and in her as Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fagan later issued a second statement admitting that she was contracted by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citing-racism-washington-state-bans-the-word-marijuana-from-all-state-laws\/\" title=\"Citing Racism, Washington State Bans The Word \u2018Marijuana\u2019 From All State Laws\">cannabis company<\/a> to &#8220;review the landscape for expanding their operations outside of Oregon.&#8221; This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dubai-owned-ferries-operator-fires-all-british-crew-brings-in-cheap-foreign-workers\/\" title=\"Dubai-Owned Ferries Operator Fires ALL British Crew, Brings In Cheap Foreign Workers\">sparked widespread condemnation<\/a> from Democrat legislators who are concerned about the allegations.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Points:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan worked as a consultant for the cannabis industry while her office was conducting an audit that favored the industry.<\/li>\n<li>Fagan claims she recused herself from the audit before taking the contract, but the recusal allegedly occurred after the audit was substantially finished.<\/li>\n<li>Two other scandals involving Fagan have recently come to light, including an investigation into $500,000 in campaign contributions and another related to OLCC, which Fagan oversees.<\/li>\n<li>Oregon Governor Tina Kotek called for two investigations into Fagan&#8217;s actions, one by the Oregon Government Ethics Commission and another by the DOJ.<\/li>\n<li>Fagan later admitted that she was contracted by a cannabis company to &#8220;review the landscape for expanding their operations outside of Oregon.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is under fire since news broke on April 27 that she had been moonlighting as a cannabis industry consultant while her office was conducting an audit that proved favorable to that industry. The audit results essentially call to loosen regulation of the cannabis industry and encourage the state to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":1921724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4038,4381,25473,6642,3779,25474,9944],"class_list":["post-1921723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-alleged","tag-ethics","tag-fagan","tag-oregon","tag-secretary","tag-shemia","tag-violations"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}