Kitzhaber is being thrown under the wagon over the Cover Oregon boondoggle according to ABC.
Via ABC News
A Congressional panel investigating Cover Oregon has asked departing Gov. John Kitzhaber to preserve all documents related to the shutdown of the dysfunctional health insurance exchange.
A letter submitted Friday by four members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asks for a slew of documents in hopes of understanding whether campaign advisers played a role in the decision to switch to the federal health insurance exchange.
The letter warns the governor’s office not to alter or destroy any records — a reference to a Kitzhaber staffer’s recent request to have the governor’s personal emails deleted from the state archives. The request was denied.
“If it is the routine practice of any state employee or contractor to destroy or otherwise alter such records, halt that practice,” the letter states.
Kitzhaber announced his resignation Friday amid a conflict-of-interest scandal involving his longtime girlfriend, Cylvia Hayes, and whether she used her access to power to advance her consulting business.
Conflicting report that the subpoenas are for influence peddling with no mention of Cover Oregon.
Via Seattle Times
Just hours after Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced his decision to resign, a subpoena arrived in a state office building confirming that federal agents are looking into the influence-peddling scandal that led to the abrupt end of a four-decade political career.
The Democratic governor gave in to mounting pressure Friday, abandoning his office amid suspicions that his live-in fiancée used her relationship with him to land contracts for her green-energy consulting business.[…]
A subpoena issued Friday as part of a federal investigation of Gov. John Kitzhaber and his first lady, Cylvia Hayes, includes a request for any records or other information related to Seattle-based Resource Media. The subpoena was issued to Oregon’s Department of Adminstrative Services.
During Kitzhaber’s last term in office, Resource Media paid Hayes more than $20,000 in consulting fees to rally West Coast support for conserving marine resources,according to Scott Miller, the firm’s president. “The reach of the work was limited to building committment to ocean protection primarily among coastal industries, scientists and academics,” Miller said in a statement released in October.