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Oregon housing chief failed to disclose husband's role in funded projects
Original: NEW: Oregon’s top housing official failed to report her husband’s involvement with projects that her agency funds. She d
Oregon's top housing official did not report that her husband was involved in projects financed by her own agency, disclosing the conflict only after ProPublica asked questions. A former official told the outlet that in a perfect world, such oversight would not depend on investigative journalism, and the revelation is raising fresh ethics concerns about conflict-of-interest rules in state housing agencies.
Why now: A newly reported potential conflict of interest involving a senior state official is drawing scrutiny of government ethics oversight.
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- NEW: Oregon’s top housing official failed to report her husband’s involvement with projects that her agency funds. She disclosed this only after we asked. “In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need ProPublica for this kind of thing,” a former official said. https://www.… · ProPublica@newsie.social · 66
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