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Former lawyer
1906 Oregon Trail time
capsule found to be empty who stole over
$3.4 million
pleads guilty
BY DICK MASON
The Observer (La Grande)
LA GRANDE — Dale
Counsell had his ham-
mers and chisels ready to
help him retrieve a 116-
year old message from the
past.
Unfortunately, the
Union County historian
didn’t need these tools
on Thursday for the past
proved to be elusive in
La Grande when a time
capsule was opened and
turned out to be empty.
Counsell was among
about 200 people gath-
ered for the opening of a
time capsule reputed to be
in the stone Oregon Trail
marker put up by fron-
tiersman Ezra Meeker,
the pioneer who spent the
later part of his life memo-
rializing the Oregon Trail.
The marker, installed in
1906, was removed from
its base by a backhoe with
assistance from the La
Grande Parks and Recre-
ation Department.
Dennis Larsen, the au-
thor of several books about
Meeker, then examined the
stone marker and found a
space for a time capsule.
“I’ve looked at it and
unfortunately it is empty,”
Larsen told the crowd.
The author, who lives in
State bar says it’s worst fraud
by a lawyer in state history
Associated Press
Isabella Crowley/The Observer
Dale Counsell collects rock samples from inside an Oregon Trail marker in La Grande on
Thursday. The samples will be sent off to Washington State University for analysis in an effort
to determine the marker’s original placement.
Lacy, Washington, said he
was not surprised that the
time capsule was empty
because a number of peo-
ple have reported that the
marker was moved several
times in the Walnut Street
area after it was installed
in 1906. The marker is
now in the front yard of
Jack and Jennifer Boyd.
Jack Boyd noted that
the empty time capsule
may give rise to a new
mystery as people try to
find out what happened to
its contents.
“This is something that
could be put into a Steven
Spielberg movie,” he said.
Larsen is happy that
the time capsule, though
empty, gave rise to a gath-
ering of people interested
in Oregon Trail history.
“It was a good block
party,” he said.
The time capsule, ac-
cording to a Meeker
journal entry, included a
speech read by the mayor
of La Grande on April 10,
1906, at a dedication cere-
mony for the marker. Jim
Kreider, of La Grande,
said good-naturedly that
he had hoped the time
capsule contained some-
thing more.
“It is unfortunate,” he
said. “I was hoping the se-
cret of life was in there.”
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MORROW COUNTY
Commissioners fire county administrator
BY PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
HEPPNER — At a packed public
meeting Tuesday, Morrow County
commissioners voted 2-1 to fire
Darrell Green, who has been county
administrator for 4½ years.
Green told the board he learned
in August there may have been a
complaint against him and an inves-
tigation to see if he violated nepo-
tism rules. But no one addressed the
complaint with him at the time.
He told the board that in his ten-
ure he never received any verbal or
written warnings, and even Tuesday
did not have the full information
about what led to his firing.
Green asked commissioners
about any complaint against him.
Commission Chair Jim Doherty
and Commissioner Melissa Lind-
sey said they would not make state-
ments on the advice of attorneys.
But Commissioner Don Russell
said he had been trying to obtain
information about the investigation
for months, with no luck.
Without knowing more, he said, he
could not support Green’s termination.
Doherty and Lindsey voted to
fire Green, while Russell voted
against it.
A former Portland personal injury law-
yer who stole more than $3.4 million from
her clients has pleaded guilty to seven fed-
eral charges in what the Oregon State Bar
has called the worst fraud by a lawyer in the
state’s history.
Lori E. Deveny, who relinquished her
law license in Oregon in May 2018, pleaded
guilty Monday to mail fraud, wire fraud,
bank fraud, two counts of aggravated iden-
tity theft, money laundering and filing a
false income tax return from 2012, The Or-
egonian reported.
Deveny, 56, stole money she held in trust
for her clients and used it to pay off credit
card debt and loans and to support a lavish
lifestyle, federal prosecutors said.
The expenses included big game hunt-
ing trips to Africa, taxidermy costs for big
game hunting trophies, other vacations, her
husband’s photography business, home re-
modeling and expensive cigars, according
to investigators from the Internal Revenue
Service and the FBI.
Prosecutors will seek a sentence of about
10 years for Deveny, Assistant U.S. Attor-
ney Claire M. Fay told the court.
The money came from insurance pro-
ceeds that were supposed to be paid to her
clients. The fraud occurred from April
2011 through May 2018, according to the
plea agreement.
The Oregon State Bar has approved $1.3
million in payouts from its Client Security
Fund resulting from claims submitted by
clients who said they lost money as a result
of Deveny’s dishonesty as their lawyer.
She will remain out of custody until
her sentencing in November. She’ll pay at
least $3.4 million in restitution and forfeit
$52,620, according to Fay. Deveny told the
court she is being treated for a mental ill-
ness but said she wasn’t taking any medica-
tion that interfered with her ability to un-
derstand the court proceeding.
Deveny had faced a 24-count indictment
in federal court. She also is being prose-
cuted in Multnomah County Circuit Court
on 92 counts of theft, forgery and other
charges.
LOCAL BRIEFING
COVID-19 community
levels for Central Oregon
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention mon-
itors community levels of
COVID-19 to help commu-
nities decide what preven-
tion steps to take based on
the latest data. Levels can be
low, medium or high and are
determined by looking at hos-
pital beds being used, hospital
admissions and the total num-
ber of new COVID-19 cases
in an area.
Nine Oregon counties have
reached high levels of COVID
community spread.
The CDC listed the follow-
ing levels for Central Oregon:
Deschutes County: Me-
dium
Crook County: Medium
Jefferson County: Medium
Precautions the CDC rec-
ommends for communities
with low levels:
• Stay up to date with
COVID-19 vaccines.
• Get tested if you have
symptoms.
Additional precautions for
communities with medium
levels:
• If you are at high risk for
severe illness, talk to your
health care provider about
whether you need to wear a
mask and take other precau-
tions.
Hazardous waste disposal
events for La Pine, Sisters
Deschutes County will hold
free summer household haz-
ardous waste disposal events
in July.
One-day collection events
hosted by Deschutes County’s
Department of Solid Waste
will be held in Sisters and La
Pine.
The Sisters event will be
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 16
at the Sisters Recycling Center,
328 Sisters Park Drive.
The La Pine event will be
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 30
at La Pine High School, 51633
Coach Road.
Residents will be able to
drop off household hazardous
waste. Acceptable products
include lawn and gardening
products, photo and pool/
spa chemicals, paint, cleaning
solutions, motor oil, used re-
chargeable batteries, fluores-
cent bulbs and tubes and small
propane tanks of 5-gallons
and smaller.
The events will not accept
business-generated hazardous
waste, medical waste, explo-
sives, fireworks, ammunition,
drums/barrels or compressed
gas cylinders.
The county’s free household
hazardous waste drop-off fa-
cility at Knott Landfill in Bend
is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
on the second and fourth
Friday and Saturday of each
month.
County Solid Waste Direc-
tor Chad Centola said oddball
items still turn up after a prop-
erty owner cleans out an old
barn or basement.
DDT, an insecticide banned
in the 1960s, still shows up.
As does elemental mercury,
commonly used in gold min-
ing. Once, someone dropped
off what county employees
thought were sticks of dy-
namite, but turned out to be
silver iodide flares, used for
seeding clouds to rain.
“I’ve done this long enough,
I’d never say I’ve seen it all,”
Centola said.
For information, visit www.
deschutes.org/sw or call the
Department of Solid Waste at
541-317-3163.
Bend’s two Jersey Mike’s
locations allegedly
violated child labor law
Federal labor officials said
the two Bend locations of
Jersey Mike’s Subs violated
child labor law as part of a na-
tional investigation into the
Manasquan, New Jersey-based
sandwich chain.
The locations at 222 NE
Emerson St. and 143 SW Cen-
tury Drive, as well as eight
restaurants in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and North Caro-
lina, allowed 14- and 15-year-
old employees to work more
hours than allowed under the
law, according to a statement
Tuesday by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor.
The Fair Labor Standards
Act mandates that 14- and
15-year-old workers not work
past 7 p.m. or more than three
hours on school days, and not
past 9 p.m. in the summer. Jer-
sey Mike’s also failed to main-
tain proof-of-age documents
for minor workers.
The company was ordered
to pay $24,000 in civil penal-
ties.
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Anecdotal evidence sug-
gests some employers have
responded to the nationwide
labor shortage through child
labor, though it’s too early to
say for certain, according to
Charlene Rachor, Department
of Labor wage and hour dis-
trict director for New Jersey.
At the time of the investiga-
tion, the two Bend locations
were operated by the corpo-
rate office, Rachor said.
Jersey Mike’s has approxi-
mately 2,000 franchise loca-
tions opened and under de-
velopment, according to the
Department of Labor.
— Bulletin staff reports
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