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The Oregon Liquor Control Commission said Friday it fired Tom Burns, former director of marijuana programs, for sharing an internal policy document with a Portland lawyer and then lying to his boss about it. Kristyna Wentz-Graff/The Oregonian (Kristyna Wentz-Graff/The Oregonian/OregonLive)
The termination letter
Tom Burns, former marijuana policy adviser for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, was abruptly fired Thursday for sharing an internal policy document with a Portland lawyer and lying about it, agency spokesman Tom Towslee said Friday.
Towslee said Burns shared a document with Amy Margolis that agency staff and marijuana industry representatives had worked on. Towslee emphasized that Margolis, who represents marijuana growers, "did nothing wrong."
"She was the unwitting recipient of a confidential document," he said. "Not knowing it was confidential, she did what anybody else would have done, which is share it with other people."
"She...
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