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agency on the same day Gov. John
Kitzhaber announced his resigna-
tion.
“Typically you don’t see this
PORTLAND — Legal experts
say a subpoena used in a federal extensive of a subpoena unless it’s
grand jury investigation into Ore- a top-priority investigation,” said
JRQ¶VIDOOHQJRYHUQRUDQGKLV¿DQFpH Laurie Levenson, a former assistant
indicates that authorities are investi- U.S. attorney who teaches at Loyola
gating possible violations of public Law School in Los Angeles. “It’s a
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including wire or mail fraud, brib- that this involves a governor, I would
ery and tax evasion. The subpoena expect this is being supervised at the
was sent to the state’s administrative highest level” and includes the U.S.
By MARTHA BELLISLE
Associated Press
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Public Integrity, the Internal Reve-
nue Service and the FBI.
It may be that the grand jury re-
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son to bring charges, Levenson said.
She noted that the authorities used
a subpoena to collect records, not a
search warrant that would have re-
quired a showing of probable cause.
But Levenson added: “It’s too early
to say whether there will be charges,
but none of this is good news for the
governor.”
Tung Yin, a professor at Lewis
and Clark Law School in Oregon,
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representative is in violation of the
federal theft or bribery law if he or
she “embezzles, steals, obtains by
fraud” government property or cor-
ruptly offers anything “with intent
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connection with business or gov-
ernment transactions. Mail or wire
fraud would kick in if prosecutors
could show the crime was played out
through email or the postal service.
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cial owes the rights of honest service
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breaches that duty if he or she gets a
kickback or a bribe. If the governor
was to be considered a conspirator, it
would require an agreement to com-
mit fraud, he said.
“The essence is, the governor
would have to know what was going
on,” Yin said.
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lobbyist chief of staff
MOUNT
CARBON,
W.Va. (AP) — A train carry-
ing more than 100 tankers of
crude oil derailed in southern
West Virginia on Monday,
sending at least one into the
Kanawha River, igniting at
least 14 tankers and sparking
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One person was being
treated for potential inhalation
issues, but no other injuries
were reported, according to a
news release from CSX, the
train company. Nearby resi-
dents were told to evacuate as
state emergency response and
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ed to the scene about 30 miles
southeast of Charleston.
The state was under a win-
ter storm warning and getting
heavy snowfall at times, with
as much as 5 inches in some
places. It’s not clear if the
weather had anything to do
with the derailment, which
occurred about 1:20 EST
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As federal railway and
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were heading to the scene, the
company said it’s still inves-
tigating what caused the train
to come off the tracks.
Public Safety spokesman
Lawrence Messina said re-
sponders at the scene report-
ed one tanker and possibly
another went into the river.
Messina said local emergency
responders were having trou-
ble getting to the house that
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Kanawha County Manag-
er Jennifer Sayre said a re-
ported 14 to 17 tankers caught
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James Bennett, 911 coor-
dinator for Fayette County,
said a couple hundred fami-
lies were evacuated as a pre-
caution.
The rail company said it’s
still sorting out many specif-
“We felt the heat, I can tell
you that,” McClung said. “It
was a little scary. It was like
an atomic bomb went off.”
Becky Nuckols heard the
train hit the house direct-
ly across the river from her
house in the community of
Boomer.
“I thought it was a snow
plow,” she said. That’s what
made me look out. All you
heard was a big boom.”
After calling 911 Nuckols
said she ran outside and saw a
man leave the house and take
off running.
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Ray Tomblin, which has is-
sued a state of emergency,
said the tanker cars were
loaded with Bakken crude
from North Dakota and head-
ed to Yorktown, Virginia.
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said all but two of the 109
cars being hauled were tanker
cars.
West Virginia American
Water spokeswoman Laura
Jordan said the company shut
down a water treatment plant,
located about 3 miles from
the derailment, at about 2:30
p.m. The plant serves about
2,000 customers.
AP Photo/The Register-Herald, Steve Keenan
A fire burns Monday after a train derailment near
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Charleston, W.Va. Nearby residents were told to evac- another water plant down-
uate as state emergency response and environmental stream in the town of Cedar
officials headed to the scene.
Grove also closed its intake.
ics in its response.
David McClung said he They asked customers from
“CSX teams also are work- felt the heat from one of the both water systems to con-
LQJ ZLWK ¿UVW UHVSRQGHUV WR explosions at his home about serve water.
Responding to a series of
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how many rail cars derailed,
His brother-in-law was ¿HU\ WUDLQ FUDVKHV LQFOXGLQJ
and to deploy environmental outside at the time of the de- one this spring in Lynchburg,
protective and monitoring railment and heard a loud Virginia, the government pro-
measures on land, air and in crack below along the riv- posed rules in July that would
the nearby Kanawha River,” erfront, then went inside to phase out tens of thousands
CSX spokesman Gary Sease summon McClung, his wife of older tank cars that carry
increasing quantities of crude
said in a news release.
and their son.
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One of the explosions that RLODQGRWKHUKLJKO\ÀDPPD-
along a hillside Monday eve- IROORZHG VHQW D ¿UHEDOO DW ble liquids. It’s not clear how
QLQJDQGVPDOO¿UHVFRXOGEH least 300 feet into the air, Mc- old the tankers were on the
derailed train.
seen on the river.
Clung said.
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longoski — but left at the
end of the 2011 session,
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SALEM — Brian Ship- third term.
“This job is going to be a
ley, who’s been in and out
of state government for 20 lot more challenging,” Ku-
years, will return to Salem longoski said.
Once called executive
as chief of staff to incoming
assistant — the title was
Gov. Kate Brown.
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ported by Willamette Week. — the chief of staff over-
Brown will be sworn sees the governor’s staff
in Wednesday after John and carries out what the
Kitzhaber’s
resignation chief executive wants done.
Shipley has had a long
takes effect.
Shipley, 39, is the top acquaintance with Salem.
lobbyist for Oregon Health While still a student at Wil-
& Science University in lamette University in the
Portland as associate vice 1990s, Shipley worked for
president for government then Reps. Judy Uherbelau
relations. Shipley has of Ashland and Kitty Piercy
served a couple of stints of Eugene.
He earned his bach-
for Brown in two of her
previous positions. He was elor’s degree in politics
chief of staff when Brown and environmental science
was the Senate Democratic from Willamette in 1996.
leader about a decade ago, He earned his law degree
and chief of staff for sever- at Georgetown Universi-
al months after Brown was ty, and could have gone to
re-elected secretary of state D WRS ODZ ¿UP %XW KH UH-
turned to Oregon to work as
in 2012.
He also has worked for a legislative assistant for a
two previous governors. state senator.
He also worked for Sen-
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time, he rose to become ate President Peter Court-
a deputy chief of staff to ney, D-Salem.
In 2011 and 2012, af-
Gov. Ted Kulongoski, over-
seeing energy and climate ter his stint with Kitzhaber
change policies and state and before he worked with
spending of federal stimu- Brown during her tenure
as secretary of state, Ship-
lus funds.
He also was legislative ley was with Forest Capi-
director for Kitzhaber — a tal Partners, an investment
job he also had under Ku- ¿UPLQ3RUWODQG
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