Hardy enjoys talking to the media, but he's not much good at anything else.

That's why they call him "hardly matters".

Isn't this lawsuit a little like closing the barn door after the horse has escaped? It will be interesting to see if the state winds up with anything after the Feds take their cut of Monem's assets.

Hey! You guys expect him to file suits against his poker buddies?

Get real.

"...cases of official corruption in the Beaver State..."

Jack, Jack, Jack, don't you realize that there are no cases of official corruption in Oregon? The Columbia and the Snake form an invisible shield preventing all that unplesasentness from ever infecting Orygone.

Really. AGs Frohnmayer, Crookham and Kulongoski have told me that Oregon is different. So has Mult Co. DA Schrunk.

And, IIRC, unitl Monem, the last tme the US Attorney's office did a public corruption case in Oregon was in the term of Sid Lezak, when then AUSA Peter Robinson (no relation to Kent) did a difficult case against the then head of OPEU for stuffing the ballot boxes in an OPEU vote by mail election for union president.

Obviousyl, there can't be any fraud in vote by mail elections today. This is, after all, Orygone.

Yeah, right.

Its only natives of New Jersey like you, or New York like me, who figure (incorrectly, of course) that human nature is the same everywhere, and that Oregon has its share, and maybe more, of official corruption.

Not true, Nonny...

I'm qualified for SNOB and I've suspected fraud and corruption ever since I battled the Goldschmuck initiative for mandatory weatherization, which would have been about 1979.

3 Cheers for Nonny! Remember under Goldschmidt there was no Mafia in Portland. He said so. McPherson is another empty suit salivating over being the next AG.

The Schmuck left his wife holding the bag. I hope she is named as a co-conspirator having benefitted from his ill gotten gain. Course the longer left to langish, the less likely any of the loot remains.
I smell asset forfeiture.
C'mon Hardy, we should do much better at protecting and recovering our state resources.
I wonder what the financial loss figures amount to in excess food costs? Certainly more than the $600,000. bribe paid to land the contract. How about recovering that loss. Damages equal to the excess food expense incurred by the state as a result of the bribe.

Will Hardy attempt to recover the actual loss resulting from the bribe taking conduct, or instead settle for just the ill gotten gain received by the defendant? Who knows, he's still on the lam. Stay tuned.

"""I wonder what the financial loss figures amount to in excess food costs?"""

This might be tough to prove. If I remember correctly he lowered what the State had been spending on food for inmates. One guy was quoted in an Big O article as saying they paid this guy money to take what other states wouldn't, implyng he took crap other states wouldn't feed the inmates. Proving he cost the State money beyond the $600k in bribes might be a tough one.

Greg C

Godfrey -

SNOB?????

Educate me, please.

Thanks

McPherson is another empty suit

Please elaborate. Or is that just empty name calling?

McPherson is not an empty suit. He is a nice person. He is a pension expert at Stoel Rives. It is good for the state to have one person in the legislature who really understands PERS.

I agree with Joel, I have met and talked to McPherson several times and he seems like one of the good guys.

They say a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a baloney sandwich.

There's a couple of loaves of official baloney that are getting stinkier by the day, and all the prosecutor can say is SoWhat?

Nonny -

"Society of Native Oregon Born", a tongue-in-cheek reference to all those who natives who resented those floating in on the vast flood of immigrants from other states (particularly California). Such an organization never really existed, though. It dates from the 80s, when the tide was high, due to Portland being publicly selected as "the Best Place to Live". Of course, had SNOB really existed, they would have thrown me out, as I married a transplanted New Yorker.

Another tongue-in-cheek organization that really did exist was the James G. Blaine Society, the brainchild of a L&C professor who was most likely it's only real member. It existed to propagandize the negative about living in Oregon, taking Tom McCall's "come visit, but please don't stay" urging to heart.

That said, I've always perceived the immigrants to be the ones most vocal about "closing the borders" to new arrivals from other states.

Sorry about the obscure references, newcomers.

Godfrey , Swimmer -

Thanks for the education.

My wife, a native of the People's Republic lo these 60 or more years ago
also had the poor judgment to marry an immeygrunt from New Yawk.

SNOB clearification.

Stewart Holbrook was one of the charter members of the James G. Blaine Society. I think it started during a lunch at Hubers in 1948.