Moeller’s trial for identity theft, wire fraud, and forgery was finally set to begin in August, after six delays — Last Friday, federal prosecutors filed a “superseding information” in the criminal case already commenced against former Albany-area attorney Megan Moeller (aka Perry), for her wire fraud and identity theft. The charges stem from Moeller’s work in 2016 and 2017 as a family law attorney, in which Moeller “knowingly forged signatures”…

No public defender available due to the statewide shortage — Oregon’s public defender shortage and due process crisis has come full circle, stranding an actual judge in jail. According to an order signed yesterday, John Mann, Oregon’s chief administrative law judge — charged with ten counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree — remains in the custody…

With Oregon currently under fire for its understaffed and unconstitutional public defense system, it’s finally time to talk about what happened to Jajuane Etheridge in Clackamas a decade ago, while his state-paid attorney was supposed to be safeguarding his due process rights. Due process basically means fair, transparent, and equal…

Will Oregon perform an audit of his cases? — John Mann, Oregon’s chief administrative law judge, was placed on unpaid leave after being indicted on ten counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree, a class B felony. The indictment against the judge shows that conduct allegedly took place in summer 2020, and involved visual recordings with…

Trial was set to begin on Tuesday — On Friday, Mark Ahlemeyer, the federal public defender assigned to represent disgraced former Portland, Oregon attorney Lori Deveny, filed an unopposed motion to waive “her right to a speedy trial,” and asked the court to “set a change of plea hearing for June 22, 2022.” The move comes after Ahlemeyer…

Alarming breakdown of communication at the Oregon State Bar — A stunning 2% of Oregon’s licensed attorneys were put on administrative suspension earlier this month due to their failure to submit yearly trust account paperwork, as reported by the Bar to its favorite snafu-launderer, the Oregonian. Far more accurately, the suspensions were due to the Bar’s communication breakdown caused by…

Warrant Issued — Disbarred in 2020 and indicted in Multnomah County Circuit Court last spring, former Portland attorney Joel Mathew DeVore missed a scheduled appearance in the criminal case filed against him, for four counts of identity theft and simulation of legal process — all class C felonies. Given a second chance to…

Private influence and regulatory theater at the Oregon State Bar — Every attorney in the state should be alarmed by what their licensor did to their colleague Andrew Long, a respected legal scholar and former law professor with no history of misconduct: The Oregon State Bar converted Long’s minor personal problems into major professional ones in order to fabricate an outrageous…

A horrific new low in the case of Oregon attorney Lori Deveny — Over the last few years, much has been learned about the alleged crimes of disgraced former Oregon attorney Lori Deveny, and the millions of dollars of insurance money stolen from her clients through forgery and fraud. The best source of information about her known victims, though, is not from the…