A Democrat state director has been charged with eight crimes after allegedly conducting a big fraud plan to take tens of thousands of dollars from an old man.
In a Wednesday press discharge, the Oregon Department of Justice announced that 43-year-old Democrat Melissa Fireside, who was lately elected as a director in Oregon’s Clackamas County, had been charged with eight counts of robbery and was arraigned at the Clackamas County court on Wednesday.
According to the Oregon Department of Justice, the eight-count accusation against the Democrat national came after an inspection by the Oregon Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Division and the Lake Oswego Police Department. Wednesday’s media release explained that District Attorney John Wentworth asked the Oregon Department of Justice to examine criminal complaints against Fireside “due to a conflict of interest” after she was elected to her place in November.
The Oregon Department of Justice noted that Fireside was charged with” taking monetary advantage of an 83-year-old man while accessing a machine network” and with forging both the boy’s name and Oregon State Representative April Dobson’s name as part of the fraud plan.
The claims against the Democrat county commissioner include two counts of identity fraud, two counts of first-degree fraud, two counts of machine crimes, one matter of first-degree robbery, and one count of first-degree aggravated fraud.
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” It does not matter who you are, which social group you’re in, or what location you hold, we may aggressively prosecute those who victimize Oregon’s elderly”, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said in Wednesday’s press release. ” When someone in a place of public confidence takes advantage of our elderly, it is a deception on multiple levels”.
The indictment against Fireside claims that she “unlawfully and knowingly accessed a computer for the purpose of committing fraud of money” and forged or altered a$ 29, 000 promissory note and a$ 30, 000 promissory note in 2024.
Clackamas County Commissioner Ben West, a Republican, has urged the Democrat director to retire following the fees.
” Law police has informed me that the case against Commissioner Fireside is very powerful, and supposedly, she preyed upon and abused an old man with major health and cognitive issues”, West said in a statement to The Post Millennial. ” Preying on those who can’t defend themselves is the worst type of crime. Commissioner Fireside must resign and step down to address her felony charges. My top priority is protecting the county and the vulnerable populations in our care”.
West also shared pictures of Fireside on social media, demanding that she” RESIGN” instead of taking an “extended leave of absence”.
