The fiancée of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber has admitted that she previously bought Washington farmland that was intended to be used to illegally grow marijuana.
Cylvia Hayes, 46, bought the $245,000 property at Colville Indian Reservation, Okanogan with her then-boyfriend just months after she was paid $5,000 to marry another man, an immigrant from Ethiopia.
The pot farm revelation, which was reported by The Oregonian on Monday, comes just days after Hayes admitted to the sham marriage and Kitzhaber, 67, revealed he had known nothing of it.
On Monday, retired real estate broker Patrick Siemion told the newspaper that Hayes and her then-boyfriend had bought the remote 60-acre lot in November 1997 with a $16,000 down payment.
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4 comments:
If we legalized it, none of this would have happened in the first place. How embarrassing.
I wonder...Was the Ethiopian intended to been forced labor on the farm?
JUST Politics.. Why was Ob' not vetted to discover his hidden illegal past??
Good for her, at least she is looking ahead at the future.
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