City treasurer flagged $1.4M cyberscam before housing officials OK’d it

A cyberscam that fleeced $1.4 million from Portland coffers this spring had been flagged as potentially fraudulent by city treasury officials prior to its approval. Emails obtained by The Oregonian/ OregonLive through a public records request— and first detailed Monday by OPB— show the costly error could have been avoided if employees on the housing bureau’ s…