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May 14, 2009
Donna Maddux
Attomey in Charge, Organized Crime Section
Criminal Division
Oregon Department of Justice
610 Hawthome Avenue, SE, Suite 210
Salem, OR 97301
Re: Portland Mayor Sam Adams
‘Dear Ms, Maddux:
1 vite in response to your request for information about the Mayor’s two personal computers and the
notebook computer issued to him by the City, as well es the Mayor's Treo PDA and to provide you with
some additional records.
We received the computers from Mayor Adams on January 23, 2009. We then tumed them over to our
expert, Robert Young, on January 24, 2009. Mr. Young’s forensic imaging of the hard drives from the
three computers is detailed in his declaration, enclosed. Mr. Young returned the computers to our
offices on January 28, 2009, While the computers were in our custody, we kept them in a locked cabinet
in our office until they were turned over to Mr. Nelson from your office.
‘With respect to the PDA, we received the device from Mayor Adams on January 29,2009, We tuned
the device over to Andy Crain of Bridge City legal the same day. Mr. Crain’s forensic imaging of the
device is detailed in his declaration, also enclosed. The PDA was returned to us on February 3, 2009, at
which time we placed it in our locked cabinet, The device remained in the cabinet until we turned it
over to Mr. Nelson of your office on February 17, 2009.
Accordingly, we can assure you that from the time thet the Mayor tumed the computers and PDA over
to our office, to the time that we turned them over to you, none of the original data was deleted, altered
or manipulated imany way.Garvey paReR Donna Maddux
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Also enclosed are the unredacted cell phone records from April 10, 2008 to February 9, 2009, labeled
Adams00177-00402. The Mayor produced a redacted version of the records to The Oregonian, which 1
understand was also forwarded to you.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Enclosures
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302DECLARATION OF ROBERT YOUNG
J, Robert Young hereby declare and state as follows to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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Since 1988 I have worked as a forensic software analyst, specializing in the
preservation, production and analysis of computer-based evidence. 1 also specialize in Cyber-
Forensics, performing plagiarism assessment of computer software for purposes of assessing
copyright infringement, software methodology and claim analysis for patent infringement, and
authorship analysis for misappropriation of trade secrets. [ also specialize in Techno-
Archeology, the analysis of failed software development projects (projects that fail to meet
contractual requirements or that are terminated for cause pr
‘to completion), multimedia and
digital video analysis, and computer-based evidence preservation, recovery, and analysis.
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(On about January 23, 2009, [ received a call fiom lawyer Samuel C. Kauffman.
‘Mr. Kauffinan told me in essence that his firm represented Mayor Sam Adams and that Mayor
‘Adams had turned over three computers to his office. Mr. Kauffinan asked if I would create
forensic mirror images of the hard drive for each computer. I told Mr. Kauffinan that I would
pick up the computers the following day.
On January 24, 2009, I picked up three computers from the Portland offices of
Garvey Schubert Barer, Those computers are identified as follows:
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2. Apple Mac Book Pro Laptop, setial no. W86496RSWOG;
b. Dell Dimension 3300 Desktop, identified by Dell service tag 8ZPR241;
c. Dell Latitude D360 Laptop, identified by Dell service tag 2GNGBGI and
City of Portland asset tag LT08913.
I then took the computers back to my office, and used standard forensic
procedures to create evidence images of the hard drives from each computer. For this purpose, |
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