Oregon secretary of state apologizes for marijuana consulting job
Oregon Secretary of state Shania Fagan issued an apology on Monday after reports of her taking a consulting job with a marijuana firm while auditing the cannabis industry.
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Oregon Secretary of state Shania Fagan issued an apology on Monday after reports of her taking a consulting job with a marijuana firm while auditing the cannabis industry.
Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan announced Monday she has resigned from her $10,000-a-month consulting side job and apologized for her “poor judgment."
SALEM — Some of Oregon’s most powerful elected officials expressed alarm Friday, April 28, after news broke that Secretary of State Shemia Fagan had accepted a job as a cannabis
The Secretary of State, Shemia Fagan, said her consulting work for a troubled marijuana dispensary chain is not a conflict of interest.
Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has refused to answer questions about her side job consulting for an embattled pot company. In a statement on Friday, Gov. Tina Kotek urged the state ethics commission to immediately investigate the situation and called for the Department of Justice to review the Secretary of State's recent audit of state cannabis regulations.