New Docs Show Oregon Dem's Support for Shady Cannabis Grant

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyPay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.It’s not often that a member of Congress faces backlash for a drug deal gone bad.In this case, the alleged deal doesn’t involve illicit substances changing hands. Rather, it concerns an alleged exchange of money and sway between now-Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) and the cofounders of a cannabis company called La Mota, one of

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