Hard copy
My copy of Phil Stanford's book arrived today, and it's something else. The people who killed Michael Francke and covered up the real story do not deserve to sleep soundly one single night. And with the release of this book, we can be pretty sure they won't.
And as for all those in law enforcement who to this day are content to leave the case hanging as, shucks, just one of those unsolved mysteries, well, this book throws well-deserved shade on them, too.
I've been following Phil's substack and ordered the book yesterday. Wouldn't it be something if Oregon's Attorney General launched an honest investigation of this shameful chapter of Oregon politics and bureaucracy and brought the responsible dirt bags to justice? I'm also hoping for world peace and an end to all human disease.
ReplyDeleteNot a single one of them has ever been interested. Kroger, Rosenblum, now Rayfield. It's especially galling after the Ninth Circuit ruling. Gable didn't do it, so who did?
DeleteOk let's ask the question, what kind of criminal activity going on in the state prison system would they be willing to kill for? And according to Franke it was big and went to the top.
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Michael Francke was investigating widespread corruption within the Oregon Department of Corrections that included drug trafficking, falsifying records, and theft of state property.
Specific crimes uncovered or witnessed by staff included:
Drug smuggling: Guards bringing methamphetamine and other drugs into facilities, often concealed in lunch buckets, with no searches conducted on staff.
Violence and Contraband: Officials allowing inmates to be released for weeks, enabling them to return with drugs and weapons; and using convicted murderers for weekend passes in exchange for crimes.
Financial Fraud: Insurance fraud, cattle rustling (where inmate crews stole from local farms and the DOC sold the meat to restaurants), and unlawfully providing free inmate labor to contractors.
And of course, the governor at the time was eminently blackmail-able.
DeleteOur family is acquainted with a man who worked at the state Penn in Salem in the arena of exercises/games/sports. I believe he was there before the Gable homocide, but not sure how long he was employed there. Anyway,
Deletehe didn’t bat an eye telling us that drugs were quite available there, as if everyone knew, most of us watch TV or know someone in LE right? Apparently, drugs were smuggled in by a variety of ways (internally and externally) via one’s body, and probably in the cafeteria (just about every cop show has a prison cafeteria scene!) and no one forgets the horrific laundry room scene in Shawshank Redemption do they?
Therefore, it is entirely reasonable to conclude that there were probably several layers of involvement from all sorts of departments-all sorts of employment levels, and prisoners, gangs, etc.
The day the Oregonian and their hired gun, Noelle Crombie, even mention the word, Francke, will be the day the Vaux's swifts come back to Chapman Elementary.
ReplyDeleteI guess I’m one of the outliers. I didn’t think it was about drugs.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you had your reasons. What do you think after reading Phil Stanford's book on the topic? Very on point and compelling I think.
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