The Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil complaint against officials in Morrow County, saying they used inside information to buy a fiber-optic business from a local nonprofit at a low price, capitalizing on Amazon’s growing data center business to enrich themselves.
Filed July 15, the complaint alleges that a small cadre of “insiders” abused their relationships to Inland Development Corporation, a nonprofit whose mission was to expand fiber-optic internet access in underserved public institutions, including rural schools, hospitals, courthouses, and libraries in eastern Oregon.
