Police officers are increasingly filling the gaps of a broken state.
Mr. Patton, a Democrat, denied that he had broken state laws by doing favors for a former mistress.
The leak angered some internet users, who claimed the channel had effectively broken state secrecy laws by screening the footage.
CENTRAL POINT, Ore .— Few places have felt the twin challenges presented by Oregon's broken state budget and its knotted tax system the way this old farm town has.
Separately, New York state's tax-collecting authority is investigating that charity to determine whether criminal laws were broken, state officials have said.
In August, after investigators had gone through his accounts, he admitted that he had broken state ethics laws by failing to report fifty-two gincludingludingolflf outings, hockey tickets, and meals.
At issue was whether Jack Phillips, a Colorado bakery owner, had broken state antidiscrimination laws when he refused to make a cake for a gay couple's wedding reception, citing his religious beliefs.
Just hours after Mr. Cordray told his staff of his planned departure, the agency sued a debt collector that it said had broken state usury laws by charging illegally high interest rates.
These officials familiar with the report said Mr. Thompson found it likely that the directors who engaged in stock trades had broken state law because breaches of fiduciary duty are violations of state civil law.
