Oregon Republican primary candidate Monique DeSpain has requested the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, Natalie Wight, expand her office’s current investigation into the now-defunct marijuana producer La Mota and a former secretary of state.
Ms. DeSpain, the 4th Congressional District candidate, wants the investigation to include the actions of Congresswoman Val Hoyle (D-CD4).
She alleges that while serving as the Commissioner of Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) Ms. Hoyle accepted campaign contributions from cannabis entrepreneurs, and then exerted her influence to ensure they were awarded a $554,000 taxpayer-funded grant.
Ms. Hoyle has “disqualified herself from further public service in Congress as she has demonstrated a pattern of corruption, obstruction, and deceit over the past three years, accepting cash donations in an apparent exchange for favors to [a] marijuana firm,” Ms. DeSpain said in a Jan. 24 letter to Ms. Wight….
