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Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
FRIDAY
A little afternoon
rain
Cloudy with spotty
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SATURDAY
Turning cloudy
Cloudy with a bit
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52° 43°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
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PENDLETON
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TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
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50°
72° (1953)
36°
33°
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PRECIPITATION
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Year to date
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LOW
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51°
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Full
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Dec 9
Caldwell
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Baker City
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Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
Medford
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Pendleton
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Medford
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Bend
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Burns
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PRECIPITATION
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John Day
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Ontario
48/40
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
50/42
Eugene
50/40
TEMPERATURE
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Records
53° 42°
Spokane
Wenatchee
46/36
44/33
Tacoma
Moses
49/38
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 49/36
47/37
50/42
49/39
52/36
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
49/43
55/41 Lewiston
58/41
Astoria
50/40
51/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
50/42
Pendleton 48/34
The Dalles 57/39
55/38
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La Grande
Salem
50/37
51/42
Corvallis
50/40
HIGH
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Seattle
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ALMANAC
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Today
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
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a little rain, mainly during the afternoon.
Snow in the mountains.
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times. Snow level mostly near 5,000 feet
with 4-8 inches.
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today; however, snow in the mountains as
low as 4,500 feet.
Thursday
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“If these reports are accurate,
they raise major questions about
the university’s commitment to
creating and maintaining a safe
campus environment.”
Wyden
— Sen. Ron Wyden, in a letter to
U of O President Michael Schill
tions about the university’s
commitment to creating and
maintaining a safe campus
environment,” Wyden wrote.
University officials said
employees correctly followed
policy, which was outlined at
length in a response sent to
the senator on Monday, The
Register-Guard reported.
The article pointed to a
set of written procedures for
sexual misconduct cases,
which university officials said
in their response “are not strict
policies that require absolute
adherence.” Flexibility on these
matters is required so officials
can “respond to the totality of
the information present and the
to receive direct electronic
tax refund deposits. They
eventually filed over 10,000
fraudulent federal tax returns,
attempting to obtain over $91
million in refunds, with actual
losses amounting to over $11
million.
Refunds were withdrawn
from the debit cards and at
least 2,000 wire transfers
totaling over $2.1 million
were sent to Nigeria.
For his role, Michael
Oluwasegun Kazeem, 24, who
came to the United States on
a student visa, was sentenced
in federal court in Medford
on Nov. 8 for conspiracy to
commit mail fraud, aggravated
identity theft and mail fraud,
the U.S. Attorney’s office said
Tuesday. U.S. District Court
Judge Ann Aiken also ordered
Kazeem to pay $4.3 million in
restitution.
The authorities got wind
of the case when a Medford
victim told the IRS in 2013
that false federal and Oregon
state tax returns were filed
electronically using her and
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her husband’s names. The
returns included personally
identifiable
information,
including their social security
numbers and dates of birth.
The federal refund was depos-
ited into an account via a
prepaid debit card in a suburb
of Chicago while the state
refund was directed to a bank
account in Texas.
In 2014, the co-conspira-
tors also gained access to the
IRS “Get Transcript” system
where they obtained sensi-
tive taxpayer information
and used it to file additional
fraudulent returns. In 2015,
because of these and other
security breaches, the IRS
discontinued the program,
the statement from the U.S.
Attorney’s office said.
Last August, Kazeem’s
brother, Emmanuel Kazeem,
was convicted in Medford
of mail and wire fraud,
aggravated identity theft and
conspiracy to commit mail
and wire fraud. Evidence
presented at his trial showed
Emmanuel Kazeem purchased
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unique circumstances that arise
in various cases,” they said.
The allegation against the
player came out of Wyoming,
and it never resulted in criminal
charges. Schill said the victim
requested that no campus
action be taken against the
player, and police in Wyoming
did not provide the university
with enough information to go
against that request and start a
student conduct investigation.
Schill said privacy obliga-
tions extend to all students,
including athletes.
“More importantly, the right
to privacy and agency of the
survivor of a sexual assault
should not be eroded because
the alleged perpetrator is a
student athlete,” Schill wrote.
over 91,000 taxpayer identi-
ties from a Vietnamese hacker.
The Mail Tribune, a news-
paper in Medford, reported
that tax returns were filed
using 13,203 accounts stolen
from CICS Employment
Services, a company that
performs
pre-employment
background checks and is
based in Lincoln City, on the
Oregon Coast. The owner of
CICS said he lost $420,000
worth of business, and
handled hundreds of calls
from distressed victims, many
with limited means, the news-
paper reported.
Asphaug said no taxpayer
was out monetarily as a result
of the crimes, but that they
caused a multitude of issues
for taxpayers.
Michael Kazeem joined the
conspiracy in 2013 to help his
brother, who lived in Bowie,
Maryland and Nigeria.
Emmanuel
Kazeem’s
sentencing is scheduled for
March 22, 2018.
Michael Kazeem apolo-
gized in court.
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Drug bust on reservation nets five
MISSION – A drug bust early Tuesday on the
Umatilla Indian Reservation resulted in five arrests
and the seizure of methamphetmine and marijuana.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation in a written statement reported police
at about 5 a.m. raided 1 Easy St. and arrested the
following: Timothy Burns, 38; Brianna Gillette,
32; Lyndi McKenzie, 73; Christina Jones, 26; and
Ashley Sampson, 31.
All five are in the Umatilla County Jail,
Pendleton, under CTUIR crimes of dangerous
drugs, criminal activity in drugs or criminal
drug promotion, according the statement. State
charges also apply, including possession of
methamphetamine and frequenting or maintaining
a place where drugs are kept or sold.
Police had a search warrant to conduct the raid,
according to the statement, and seized about 8
grams of meth, 8 ounces of marijuana, marijuana
oil and dabs, scales and packaging material, one
firearm, and U.S. currency.
The CTUIR reported a Umatilla Tribal Police
Department officer who works with the Blue
Mountain Enforcement Narcotics Team led the
investigation. BENT, tribal police, the FBI and
the regional SWAT team participated in the take
down.
Man accused of shipping
marijuana in fake boulders
EUGENE (AP) — Police say an Oregon man
shipped more than $1 million worth of marijuana
to another state via UPS last week, packing the
drugs inside of artificial boulders he made himself.
The Eugene Register-Guard reports that Curran
Millican Manzer, 36, of Waterville, Oregon,
made shipments to another state where marijuana
is illegal. Springfield Police Lt. Scott McKee
declined to identify the state and said the number
of shipments is still being determined as part of an
ongoing investigation.
Marijuana is legal in Oregon, but it remains
illegal at the federal level, and shipping it across
state lines is considered drug trafficking.
Manzer faces charges of felony laundering a
monetary instrument, felony unlawful manufac-
turing of marijuana, and misdemeanor charges
of unlawful delivery of marijuana and unlawful
possession of marijuana. It wasn’t immediately
clear if he had an attorney.
Corrections
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Identity theft scam netted Nigerians $11M, and prison
SALEM (AP) — A Nige-
rian man has been sentenced
to seven years in federal
prison for his role in the
bilking of over $11 million via
an identity-theft scheme from
the Internal Revenue Service,
the U.S. Attorney’s office for
Oregon said Tuesday.
An IRS agent has said this
is one of the largest tax fraud
cases in the United States
in which stolen personal
identification information was
used to defraud the IRS, First
Assistant U.S. Attorney for
Oregon Scott Erik Asphaug
told The Associated Press in
an email.
Its scope is staggering.
An IRS criminal investiga-
tion determined the co-con-
spirators obtained personal
identifying information of
more than 259,000 people, and
used it to acquire over 19,500
electronic filing PINs from
the IRS, the U.S. Attorney’s
office said in a statement.
The co-conspirators obtained
and used pre-paid debit cards
with the stolen identities
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University responds to questions on allegation handling
EUGENE (AP) — Univer-
sity of Oregon President
Michael Schill has defended
the university’s handling of a
rape allegation against a former
basketball player after U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter
earlier this month pushing for
more information.
The Democratic senator
from Oregon had sent a letter
to Schill, saying he was trou-
bled by the questions raised in
an article published in Sports
Illustrated last month. The
article casts doubt on whether
the university followed its
policies on student sexual
misconduct when the allega-
tion surfaced in the fall of 2016.
“If these reports are accu-
rate, they raise major ques-
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