Sodomy, bribery: The case against Terry Bean
Terry Bean, lawyer Derek Ashton arrested on October 30, 2019
Posted: Oct 31, 2019 / 03:52 PM PDT / Updated: Oct 31, 2019 / 03:52 PM PDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Terry Bean, the
high-profile Democratic donor and activist, bailed out of jail the same day he was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Portland police. His lawyer, Derek Ashton – who was arrested hours earlier – also posted bail and was released from jail.​
Court documents say the men arranged a $200,000 payment to a 15-year-old boy to make sex abuse charges against Bean go away. ​
Bean was arrested on a warrant accusing him of 2 counts of 3rd-degree sodomy — both felonies — and a misdemeanor sexual abuse charge on a case that was first filed in 2015. ...
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Bean, left, and Ashton