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Efforts Underway To Amend Oregon’s Ag OT
Efforts Underway To Amend Oregon’s Ag OT
Efforts Underway To Amend Oregon’s Ag OT
A year after the legislature mandated overtime pay for farm workers, an effort is underway in Salem to make changes to the law.  State Representative Shelly Boshart Davis said since taking effect in June, the rules have created hardships for family farms and resulted in lower pay for ag workers.  She’s lookin...
Claypool Sentenced For Grass Seed Fraud
Claypool Sentenced For Grass Seed Fraud
Claypool Sentenced For Grass Seed Fraud
A Spokane man has been sentenced for his role in a multimillion dollar fraud scheme that involved grass seed at facilities in western Oregon. Christopher Claypool, 52, was sentenced last week to three years in federal prison and three years of supervised release ...
Washington Man Charged With Defrauding Seed Customers, Former Owner
Washington Man Charged With Defrauding Seed Customers, Former Owner
Washington Man Charged With Defrauding Seed Customers, Former Owner
The former manager of a Liberty Lake, WA-based seed company has been charged with laundering and wiring over $15 million through several schemes to defraud the company’s former owner and its customers. Former Jacklin Seed Company General Manager Christopher Claypool faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering against the company’s former owner, J.R. Simplot ... Read Mor