Secretary of State Tobias Read on Wednesday announced that he has withdrawn an Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission audit associated with the scandal that ended a predecessor’s political career. He said he made the decision in the interest of protecting the integrity of the state audits division.

I do not believe the prior management of the audit functions at the Secretary of State's Office lived up to that obvious and unambiguous responsibility," Secretary of State Tobias Read wrote in a letter explaining the decision.

My team and I concluded that the selection of the audit, the framework for the audit, and potential predetermination of its conclusions imperiled the audit from the outset.” By Julia Shumway, Oregon Capital Chronicle New Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read (D) on Wednesday withdrew the scandal-marred audit of the state’s liquor and cannabis commission

New Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read on Wednesday withdrew the scandal-marred audit of the state’s liquor and cannabis commission that ended a predecessor’s political career.

Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read continued his overhaul of the agency he took control of in January, deleting a controversial 2023 audit of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission from his agency’s archive.