Accused LGBT Child Molester and Obama Bundler Arrested For Paying Off Sex Abuse Victim To Disappear
Terry Bean, a former ‘gay porn kingpin’, is a revered gay rights pioneer and bundler for the 2012 reelection campaign of President Barack Obama.
Portland based millionaire Terry Bean has been arrested, again, in connection with a sex abuse case that arose out of a hotel romp he *allegedly* had with his then-boyfriend and an underage male. Bean has been a long time donor to various democrat political campaigns and causes, including co-founding the Human Rights Campaign.
This most recent arrest charges Bean with a felony computer crime for paying off the victim of said romp to stay quiet and not testify when Bean was preparing to go to trial over the sex abuse charges. Also arrested and implicated in the computer crime is his former defense attorney, Derek Ashton.
Portland real estate developer Terry Bean was arrested Wednesday afternoon on an accusation that he committed a felony computer crime by allegedly paying off a teenager who had been set to testify against him in a sex abuse case.
Bean’s arrest followed the arrest earlier Wednesday of his former criminal defense attorney, Derek Ashton, on an identical computer crime charge. The prosecution has said in court documents that Ashton carried out the deed for Bean.
Both men will be required to appear for arraignments in Lane County Circuit Court. It’s unclear if dates have been set yet.
Ashton until recently represented Bean, a wealthy Democratic donor and a well-known gay rights activist, on charges that Bean sexually abused a 15-year-old boy in a Eugene motel room in 2013.
In August, Lane County Deputy District Attorney Erik Hasselman wrote in court filings that he and police had evidence of possible criminal conduct — bribing a witness or witness tampering — by Bean and Ashton. Hasselman said Ashton used $220,000 from Bean to pay the teenage boy not to show up or testify during Bean’s 2015 sex abuse trial.
The statute of limitations for prosecuting both men on allegations of bribing a witness or witness tampering is three years, so it has already passed.
But a Lane County grand jury indicted Bean and Ashton on a charge of “felony computer crime,” according to Bean’s new criminal defense attorney, Steven Sherlag. Charging papers that led to their arrests Wednesday haven’t yet been made public.
It appears the statute of limitations for the computer charge could be as long as six years under the theory that the pair allegedly used a computer to commit witness bribing or tampering.
Sherlag said his client looks forward to pleading not guilty to the new charge when he’s arraigned.
“We’re shocked at the new charges,” he said. “… Mr. Bean unequivocally denies all the state’s claims.”