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Oregon legislator’s firm reaps thousands, produces ‘unacceptable’ grant application
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
VALE The executive had a deal for Greg Smith when she called last fall.
For no cost, her Pendleton firm could take on the job of chasing down millions of dollars for Malheur County.
The offer came soon after Smith learned his own work to get that money had failed. The U.S. Department of Transportation concluded the application he submitted last May was “unacceptable.”
The money remains key to turning farmland now owned by taxpayers into a Nyssa industrial park, adjacent to the planned Treasure Valley Reload Center.
February 16, 2021
In response to an administrative appeal filed by a Reporters Committee attorney, a district attorney in Oregon has ordered a county economic development department to disclose public records requested by the Malheur Enterprise, an important victory for the newspaper that could help shed light on a multi-million dollar infrastructure project.
The Enterprise filed a series of public records requests last October as part of its ongoing investigation into the inherent tension between the public and private roles of an Oregon state legislator involved in economic development projects as both the director of the Malheur County Economic Development Department and the owner of a private development company.