Ethics commission finds Salem restaurant owner voted on contracts benefitting business in 2022

A Salem restaurant owner will receive a letter of education from the state ethics commission after he admitted to voting on matters that benefited his business while serving as a volunteer on the Marion County Fair Board in 2022.

The three-year-old case concerning Michael Adams, a co-owner of barbecue restaurant Adam’s Rib, was recently settled at an Aug. 8 meeting of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission. Adams signed a stipulated agreement on July 28, 2025.…