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...their way for a new chemistry facility. The University of Oregon also took the "back door" recently by getting the Department of Energy to grant them $2.3 million for the construction of a science facility--a project that received strong support from one of the state's senators, Mark Hatfield...
Senator Mark Hatfield had two assets working for him as he faced a preliminary inquiry of the Senate Ethics Committee into his wife's financial dealings with a Greek businessman. One was the Oregon Republican's long reputation for integrity. The other was Hatfield's admission that he had made a serious error of judgment in helping to promote Entrepreneur Basil Tsakos' planned $6 billion oil pipeline in Central Africa...
Tsakos had paid Hatfield's wife Antoinette $55,000 for helping him find and decorate an apartment in Washington...
...disgruntled former employees of Tsakos testified that Mrs. Hatfield had performed no broker or decorating services for the financier. But last week the Ethics Committee staff concluded that there was insufficient evidence to determine that the fee paid Mrs. Hatfield, a real estate broker, was meant as a bribe to her husband and urged the Senate committee to drop the matter. The Ethics Committee is expected to agree this week. The Justice Department also seems likely to come to a similar conclusion after a preliminary FBI investigation of Hatfield's activities...
...Hatfield reported his spouse's income under the same provision of the Ethics in Government Act from which Geraldine Ferraro has claimed exemption...