Oregon's justice department has concluded that criminal charges are not warranted in the rare liquor investigation that shook the state's alcohol agency last year. The department launched the probe in February 2023 and announced its decision Monday.
FILE - A bottle of Old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, a 10-year-old, is shown behind glass doors at a whiskey bar, Saturday, March 4, 2023. PORTLAND, Ore. — Criminal charges are not warranted in the rare liquor probe that shook Oregon ’s alcohol agency last year and forced its executive directorwhether employees of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission improperly used their positions to obtain bottles of top-shelf bourbon for personal use.
by the agency that concluded its then-Executive Director Steve Marks and five other agency officials had diverted sought-after bourbons, including Pappy Van Winkle’s 23-year-old whiskey, for personal use. In his responses to questions from the internal investigator, Marks denied that he had violated Oregon ethics laws and state policy. However, he acknowledged that he had received preferential treatment “to some extent” in obtaining the whiskey as a commission employee. Marks and the other officials said they never resold the whiskeys they obtained.
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