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	Ore. Paid One 1 Million to Firm in Priest-Abuse Case Associated Press, carried in KTVZ July 23, 2007 http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=6825236 Salem, Ore. - Oregon paid a little more than one million dollars to a law firm to defend the state in lawsuits by 14 men who claimed they were abused by a priest at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility during the 1970s. The state hired the Idaho-based firm of Greener, Banducci and Shoemaker. The payments totaled 1.oh-four million dollars, according to documents obtained by the Statesman Journal newspaper through a public records request. William Tharp, a former Oregon assistant attorney general now with the Boise firm led the state-defense team. The lawsuits were against the Reverend Michael Sprauer and the state. State officials used the Boise firm because of Tharp's prior knowledge of the case. Oregon's attorneys have racked up costs and expenses totaling $485,000 and the state has paid more then 372-thousznd dollars to Sprauer's lawyer. In addition the state has agreed to pay just over one million dollars to the men who sued Sprauer.
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