Craig Berkman was once a big shot in Oregon Republican politics. In the early 1990s, he chaired the state party. He later made unsuccessful bids for national Republican Party chairman and governor of Oregon. But those days are long gone.Berkman, 71, has spent this week in the Pinellas County jail, in Clearwater, Fla., following charges brought against him on Tuesday by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in New York. Berkman is accused of carrying out two separate securities fraud schemes in which investors were lured with the promise of Facebook stock.
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