The Register Guard has reported on the investigation by the attorney general into allegations of corruption in the Coos Bay Sheriff’s Office. The Guard could only report that an investigation is underway but not on the specifics of the corruption because, well, no one knows what those are.
The Oregon Department of Justice launched an investigation last week into charges of corruption in the Coos County Sheriff’s Department.
That much is clear. What those charges are, exactly, is where things get a little fuzzy.
The complainant — who didn’t actually file a complaint — is Kevin Stufflebean, a Coos County commissioner facing a November runoff for his seat against the sheriff, Andy Jackson. The person who asked Justice to investigate — who hasn’t actually talked to Stufflebean — is the county’s district attorney, Paul Frasier. The prosecutor’s source for the corruption allegations — which don’t actually spell out any specific corruption — is an e-mail that Stufflebean sent to the Coos Bay World newspaper, an e-mail Frasier said he has not actually read.
Truthfully, this just keeps getting funnier and funnier. The World should be, if it had any class whatsoever, squirming uncomfortably for enabling Stufflebean to create such a furor.
