Former Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has landed back at her old gig: HKM Employment Attorneys, a national firm with offices in Portland. Fagan was a managing partner there from 2015 until her election in 2020, which was when she allowed her costly law license to go inactive. While…

Disgraced former judge (and soon-to-be former attorney) John Mann was sentenced today in Washington County Circuit Court for his conviction on ten counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree. Judge Andrew Erwin sentenced Mann to 38 months incarceration, and five years of probation, during which time Mann…

State Sen. Kim Thatcher weighs in on Shemia Fagan’s downfall — In 2020, business owner and State Senator Kim Thatcher (R-Keizer) ran for Oregon Secretary of State on a platform of “accountability and government transparency,” and a promise to carry on in the same manner as Dennis Richardson. Thatcher lost to then-State Senator Shemia Fagan (D-Portland), who campaigned almost exclusively on…

Disgraced attorney agrees to repay over $4 million — A hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow in U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, to determine the amount of restitution owed by disgraced attorney Lori Deveny, has been cancelled, according to documents filed today. The government’s restitution memorandum stated that the parties “have agreed to the amount of restitution defendant…

Washington County catches and releases child porn offenders — ***For the latest on this case click here Welcome to Washington County, Oregon, where law enforcement and the District Attorney have a zero-tolerance policy for child porn, but where one judge keeps letting defendants off with mere probation. That judge is Andrew Erwin, who is otherwise known as a “tough…

John Mann’s law license suspended by Supreme Court order — ***For the latest on this case click here Days before his trial was set to begin — for ten counts of encouraging child sexual abuse — former Oregon Chief Administrative Law Judge John Michael Mann changed his plea to guilty. Mann, who has no prior criminal record and has been…

Ideas for breaking up the Oregon State Bar — Yesterday, a group of lawyers lost another battle in the federal lawsuit against their licensor, the Oregon State Bar. The lawsuit stemmed from the Bar’s publication of statements which condemned “the resurgence of white nationalism” and “the normalization of violence and racism.” In brief, the lawyers asserted that the Bar’s…

The Oregon State Bar may now destroy evidence of Lori Deveny’s crimes — As of this morning, the Oregon State Bar has permission to destroy all of the material that remains in the agency’s possession that it had obtained during its custodianship over the former attorney’s law practice. The court order comes just days after Lori Deveny was finally sentenced for the decades-long…

Check back daily for brief dispatches during multi-day hearing — Former Oregon attorney Lori Deveny is currently being sentenced in the state’s criminal case against her. The hearing began today and is slated for for the next seven business days. Dozens of Deveny’s victims will testify, along with various professionals who worked on the case for the prosecution or for…