WILLIAM D. SCHAUB

HOW MUCH DOES HE OWE? $857,981 too. Midland Credit Management sued him in Multnomah County Circuit Court in September 2020, alleging he had failed to pay a Capital One credit card bill for $4,352.19.

THE BACKSTORY: Bill Schaub, 72, is a well-connected guy with a lot of friends—but seemingly unlucky judgment in employment choices. For more than a decade starting in 1986, he served as general counsel for Capital Consultants Inc., a now-defunct Portland money management firm whose founder, the late Jeff Grayson, was convicted in 2002 in what was then the largest pension fund fraud in U.S. history. Schaub’s next boss? Andy Wiederhorn, the youthful financier and founder of Wilshire Financial Services. Wiederhorn did federal time for his role in the Capital Consultants scandal (Schaub was never charged with any crime). After that, Schaub became president of the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville. That nonprofit, started by Del Smith, a legendary character who founded Evergreen Aviation, was the subject of a scathing Oregon Department of Justice investigation in 2014 into Smith’s misuse of its nonprofit status.

Tax liens show that Schaub’s financial troubles date back to at least 2006. Schaub is now a lawyer in private practice, and only a few election cycles ago provided legal advice to then-candidate for governor and former Portland Trail Blazer Chris Dudley.

INTERESTING DETAIL: When Gerry Frank, scion of the Meier & Frank department store chain, former chief of staff to the late Sen. Mark O. Hatfield and perhaps one of the best-connected men in Oregon, died last year, one of two personal representatives he entrusted to settle his estate: Bill Schaub. (Schaub’s total arrears includes $638, 980 he owes individually and $219,001 owed by his law firm, William D. Schaub, P.C.)

WHAT DOES HE SAY? Schaub did not respond to requests for comment.

WHAT THE BACK TAXES COULD BUY: A North Face jacket ($95) and pair of Levis ($30) for each of the roughly 5,200 foster children under the care of the Oregon Department of Human Services. NIGEL JAQUISS.

Judge Stephen Bushong ruled in favor of Midland on Dec. 16, 2020, ordering that Dunne pay the bill, with interest of 9% a year, until it was zeroed out.

INTERESTING DETAIL: Dunne got to keep all of Left Coast Canopy in the divorce, according to court records, along with his 2009 Acura, which he bought after they split up.

WHAT DO THEY SAY? Dunne says he doesn’t owe the state the amount it claims. “That number is derived from returns on a profitable company, but does not take into account any of the offsetting losses from other (unprofitable) companies,” Dunne said in a text message. “It’s an erroneous number that doesn’t actually reflect what I owe the state. I don’t owe the state anywhere close to that much money. I am working diligently with the state to correct this. The state has been very helpful, and I anticipate a quick resolution.”

WHAT THE BACK TAXES COULD BUY: The services of almost 17 administrative specialists to fulfill public records requests related to cannabis and liquor licensing compliance. The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission says it needs at least two because of an uptick in requests from tax authorities and other agencies “related to alleged tax irregularities, improper financial reporting or other criminal matters.” ANTHONY EFFINGER.

Kimberly Mitchell

WHO’S INVOLVED: Fizz & Bubble LLC

HOW MUCH DO THEY OWE? $632,768

THE BACKSTORY: Back in the day, Kimberly Mitchell made soap for royalty.

Until 2010, she was founder at Beau Bain, which means “beautiful bath” in French. The company made bath bombs in Portland with ingredients from around the world.

“These indulgent bombs are not only found in some of the world’s best spas, hotels, and private residences, but have even transformed the private bathing chambers of royalty!” Mitchell, 52, writes on her LinkedIn profile.

After bombing royal baths, Mitchell founded a company called Fizz & Bubble LLC in February 2008, according to the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office. On LinkedIn, she calls the company F&B.

“I served as the creative force behind this whimsical brand that has introduced hundreds of fun and innovative bath, body and skincare products to the market,” Mitchell writes.

Around the same time, she started Weekends & Chocolate to make “advanced technology anti-aging skin and body care” products. An Instagram post for the company shows Mitchell on the QVC shopping channel with host Shawn Killinger. Mitchell upped her chemistry game in September 2019, when she started Chill Beauty, according to state records. Chill Beauty used nanotechnology to put CBD into beauty products. Chill posted its last Instagram post on Oct. 11, 2019, less than a month after its first.

F&B and Weekend & Chocolate are still going, according to Mitchell’s LinkedIn account. She registered a company called Beauty Brands Consulting in November 2021, according to state records.

INTERESTING DETAIL: Weekends & Chocolate made a “body polish” called “Gypsy Soul,” that contained (or perhaps smelled like) green floral, rosewood jasmine, and oak moss.

WHAT DOES SHE SAY? Mitchell returned neither emails nor phone calls.

WHAT THE BACK TAXES COULD BUY: More than 237,000 ounces of KleenLine NRG No-Touch Pomberry Foam Handwash from Waxie, the San Diego company that supplies the state of Oregon with cleaning supplies. ANTHONY EFFINGER.

FORMER SHAMAN: The building where Man Vu’s dispensary Shaman Cannabis operated.

Man Vu

WHO’S INVOLVED: Vu and four limited liability companies he is associated with, according to the DOR’s list.

HOW MUCH DO THEY OWE? $693,434

THE BACKSTORY: Man Vu is a personal injury and business lawyer who practices out of Northeast Portland. But he partook in the cannabis boom, too.

Vu, 47, was a managing member of two dispensaries that shut down in recent years. Vu blames COVID-19, employee and partner turnover, and two robberies at gunpoint. According to state business filings, the only active business of which Vu has ownership is his law practice.

Court records show he was sued for $100,000, alongside several others, after they allegedly abandoned a dispensary lease in Northeast Portland in 2019. He’s been sued several times in small claims court over credit card debt and alleged nonpayment of rent for his law office at Northeast Halsey Street and 111th Avenue.

He’s also been sued three times in recent years for legal malpractice or negligence; at least two of the cases ended in a settlement. It appears he lives in a Happy Valley home owned by his elderly parents.

WHAT DOES HE SAY? Vu says he does owe some late taxes, but the number listed is wrong because the Department of Revenue inaccurately “estimated what the [marijuana] tax should’ve been” even after he shut down both of his dispensaries. (He says he closed one four years ago and the other two years ago.)

Other businesses Vu is associated with that are included on the DOR listing were never operational, he says. “I don’t even know why they would owe taxes.”

“Right now, we’re trying to finally close the business down and file the taxes so that we’re current,” Vu adds. “I’ve talked to [the DOR] and they said they’re going to reduce it a bunch once the actual filings are submitted.”

WHAT THE BACK TAXES COULD BUY: They could cover the annual billings for four lawyers. SOPHIE PEEL.