Senator faces investigation for possible fraud
SALEM (AP)
Lawyers will bo
wading into most
ly unchurtoii loaol
waters if a probe into Sen Peg
John's fund-raising practices
turns into a criminal case
The Cottage Grove Democrat
has been the subjei:t of investi
gations since January, when it
was disclosed she sent a fund
raising letter claiming her cam
paign committee had $10,()()()
in debts and no money to pay
them off.
Records later showed her
campaign had no debts and a
Skinheads make attempt
to recruit high schools
for Northwest members
SHATTLF (AIM High
school students are used to
hearing the pitches of military
and college recruiters, hut re
cently they’ve also been up
preached by white supreme
cists.
Supremacist "skinheads''
have begun recruiting drives in
Federal Way and Auburn,
Wash., high schools, police
said. Skinhead leaders have be
gun spreading their word
through students sympathetic
to the movement.
Skinheads, who favor black
leather boots and shaven
scalps, have boon described as
the foot soldiers of the white
supremacist movement.
There have been recent ar
rests of skinheads in eight inci
dents in schools south of Seat
tle, for suspicion of assault,
possession of illegal weapons
and racial harassment.
"Why they're targeting the
Fed oral Way area I don't
know,” said officer Dan
I’lngrey, a member of King
County's gang unit. "Hut it’s
definitely a significant in
crease."
County officers and state
troopers monitored a gathering
of 20 white supremacists Sun
day at Saltwuter State Park near
Dos Moines, about 25 miles
south of Seattle.
Those at tho meeting of the
Washington State Aryan Na
tions listened to speeches and
socialized, and several mem
bers worn quasi-military outfits
and provided security.
Justin Dwyer, the group’s 23
year-old leader, said there have
boon monthly meetings held .it
vurious locations recontly. Ho
said recruiting is going on
throughout Western Washing
ton.
Dwytir, who lives in Bremer
ton, said the state organization
wus formed in April as an off
shoot of Aryan Nations in Hay
den Lake, Idaho.
Aryans Nations has formed
state groups in Washington.
Idaho, Oregon, Montana and
Wyoming, he said.
Dwyer said tho group's mis
sion is to "awaken our people"
to tho unfuir treatment of
whites.
"I don't hate other people;
don’t get mo wrong," he said.
"But the white man has got to
find his own destiny."
As part of tho recruitment ef
fort, ho said, the organization
looks up people who have writ
ten letters of support to Aryan
Nations in Idaho.
Peg Jolin fund-raising case involves little-used law
$28,000 surplus will’ll Uni letter
was sent.
Jolin told The RtyfistvrJhiard
of hugone shi’ considered a
claim of debts a mom effective
way to raise money, although
no debts existed She called the
claim "a technique, just like
marketing "
Jolin hasn't been charged
with a crime, but the Oregon
Justice Department plans to
take its findings to a grand jury
soon
Officials arc proceeding un
der a rarely employed law
against using "undue Influ
ence" to sway someone's vote,
political affiliation or political
c( attribution.
Ataording to the law, undue
influence includes fraud Klo> -
lion law experts said the statute
i oil Id pose problems for prose
i'U tors
The prosecution must show
that she committed fraud, and I
don't think train! has ever boon
defined for this purpose In
election law," Portland lawyer
Richard Hotton said in a m uni
Interview
But a lawyer who helped
draft the law say*- using false
claims to nuse campaign funds
was intended to he covered
This statute doesn't have
any surprises in it," said )ai k.
l aust of Portland "It deals
with the most serious and ex
(rente possibilities of viola
lions A nd I ra u d is One ol
mem
Secretary of Stare I’hil keis
ling, whoso office enforces nltx
lions laws, iisktai the attorney
general lo Investigate Jolin un
il<• r tho unduo Influence law
Allot staling tho results, ho s.iiti
Ihoro was “credible evidence"
that sho broke tho law anil that
a n indict in lin t s h o u I d ho
sought.
Violating tho part of tho un
duo influoncu law under which
Jolin is being investigated is a
felony with penalties ol up lo
five years in prison and a
S 1(H),non fine
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