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Judge allows pretrial release of one Klein brother
Matthew Klein to
live with Baker
County couple
By MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
PORTLAND — Matthew Klein,
one of two Oregon brothers accused
in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capi-
tol, was released from custody on
Friday, May 14, to a third-party
guardian in Baker County, where he
will be on home detention and GPS
monitoring pending
his trial.
U.S. District
Judge Randolph
D. Moss of the
District of Colum-
bia granted Klein’s
pretrial release on
Thursday, May 13,
M. Klein
to a Baker County
couple after refusing last week to
allow him to live with his parents.
The judge had found his parents
unsuitable to supervise him, based
on text messages that showed
his mother and father warning
Matthew’s younger brother and
co-defendant Jonathanpeter Klein
not to broadcast their roles and that
“braggers get caught,” according to
court testimony and documents.
Matthew Klein, 24, and Jonathan-
peter Klein, 21, both have pleaded
not guilty to conspiracy to defraud
the United States, aiding and abet-
ting in the obstruction of an offi-
cial proceeding, obstruction of law
Federal Bureau of Inveestigations/Contributed Photo, File
Matthew Leland Klein was captured on video footage inside the U.S. Capitol, holding and waving a Gadsen flag,
according to the FBI.
firearms from their residence
before Matthew Klein’s arrival and
complete, sign and submit forms to
the court each Monday attesting that
Klein has complied with his release
conditions, the judge ordered.
Matthew Klein also will be
restricted to travel in Baker County
and was ordered to stay out of Wash-
ington, D.C., except if required to
appear in court or meet with his
lawyer.
He also must not use any social
media and his Internet access will
be limited for educational purposes
enforcement during civil disorder,
destruction of government prop-
erty, entering and remaining in a
restricted building or grounds and
disorderly conduct in a restricted
building or grounds.
The judge ordered Matthew Klein
to be released to a woman retired
from Baker County government
who lives with her husband, a prison
guard at the Powder River Correc-
tions Facility, according to court
documents. He must first be fitted
with a location monitoring device.
The couple must remove any
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“related to computer sciences self-
study” or work, according to the
judge.
Steven R. Kiersh, Matthew
Klein’s lawyer, had urged his client’s
release, arguing in part that Klein
wanted to continue his education at
George Fox University.
Matthew Klein enrolled at the
Christian college in Newberg in fall
2017 and had been attending up until
his arrest on March 23, according to
the university.
“He was a senior, but he is no
longer a student at George Fox,”
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follow the recommendations
of their health care provider.”
All people will still be
required to wear masks on
public transportation, inside
airports and while in health
care settings, according to
the latest CDC guidance.
“Oregonians now have
a choice on how to protect
themselves and others from
COVID-19,” Brown said.
“Either get vaccinated or
continue wearing a mask and
following physical distancing
requirements.”
Brown said youths and
teachers in schools will still
be required to wear masks for
this school year. The gover-
nor also said businesses can
continue to enforce mask
requirements for the time
being if they do not want
to verify the vaccination
AAA expects huge
Memorial Day travel spike
somebody twice if they take a round-trip
flight.
PORTLAND — U.S. highways will be
far busier over Memorial Day weekend
than last year, but traffic still won’t reach
pre-pandemic levels, according to a forecast
by the AAA auto club.
AAA officials say travel will rise because
more Americans have been vaccinated
against COVID-19 — about one-third of
U.S. adults — and consumer confidence is
growing.
The auto club and insurance company
said on Tuesday, May 11, it expects more
than 37 million people to travel at least 50
miles from home during the holiday week-
end, up 60% from last year, which was the
lowest since AAA began keeping records
in 2000.
If the AAA forecast is right, it would still
be 6 million people, or 13%, fewer than left
home over Memorial Day 2019.
AAA said 34 million Americans plan
driving trips between May 27 and May 31,
a 52% increase over last year, and nearly
2.5 million will take plane trips, nearly six
times more than the same period in 2020.
A small number will take buses or trains.
So far in May, nearly 1.5 million people
per day have gone through U.S. airport
checkpoints, according to the Transporta-
tion Security Administration. AAA said
its air-travel forecast seems low because it
counts each traveler once, while TSA counts
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a profit in 2020, thanks to
federal help
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Kate Brown announced on
Thursday, May 13, she would
immediately have the state
follow Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention guid-
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spokesman Rob Felton said last
week.
Matthew Klein was a commuter
student from Sherwood and “univer-
sity staff were not aware of his
presence at the Capitol or alleged
participation in previous rallies asso-
ciated with the Proud Boys, a group
whose attitudes and commitments
are antithetical to the values of our
community,” the university provost
wrote to staff and faculty on April
23.
Matthew Klein was barred from
the George Fox campus, the provost
wrote last month.
Felton said Matthew Klein has
been dismissed from the school and
won’t be able to study at George Fox
again, even remotely.
Federal prosecutor Christopher
K. Veatch had argued that Matthew
Klein played a larger role than his
brother in the Capitol breach, noting
Matthew Klein helped others scale
a wall on the west side of the Capi-
tol to allow them to get inside. After
he and his brother entered the Capi-
tol, and then left the building about
10 minutes later, the two wrenched
open another door on the north side
of the Capitol, Veatch said.
Jonathanpeter Klein also has
asked for pretrial release to a third-
party guardian, under home deten-
tion and GPS monitoring. Federal
prosecutors don’t object. His release
hearing will be held in early June.
Jonathanpeter Klein was
arrested March 23 at Ruggs Ranch,
a 100,000-acre hunting preserve
outside of Heppner in Morrow
County.
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through the pandemic and turned a profit
in 2020, but they would have lost money on
day-to-day operations without federal aid
from the CARES Act.
According to data released by the Oregon
Health Authority this week, the state’s 64
hospitals ended 2020 with a combined $483
million surplus in operating revenue.
That includes money from providing
patient care, cafeteria and gift sales, and
federal aid. Hospitals received about $620
million in CARES Act funds.
Two of Oregon’s hospitals are for-profit:
McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in
Springfield and Willamette Valley Medical
Center in McMinnville. The remainder are
nonprofits.
State regulators said the data shows a
promising financial recovery for health
systems, while a hospital representative said
their margins remain narrow and their recov-
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Hospital system revenues plummeted in
April 2020, when fears of a surge in COVID-
19 patients prompted a lockdown and state-
wide pause on elective health procedures.
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