BREAKING NEWS – Portland, Oregon – Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber said he was caught off guard when his fiancée Cylvia Hayes tearfully admitted to having a green-card marriage to an 18-year-old Ethiopian immigrant. Wiping away tears at a news conference, Hayes said she accepted around $5,000 to marry the immigrant, Abraham B. Abraham, in 1997 so that he could remain in the United States.
“It was a marriage of convenience,” Hayes said. “He needed help and I needed financial support.” She went on to say, that even though she was married three times before, that she will never again marry for money, because this time it’s before power and prestige.