The directors of a tiny Northeast Oregon nonprofit called Inland Development Corp. voted in 2017 to cut a $145,000 check to another nonprofit, Morrow Development Corp., where state Rep. Greg Smith moonlighted as a contract employee.

Immediately afterward, Inland named Smith and two others to its board of directors. They replaced three board members who resigned at that meeting.

Then, later that month, Smith and the rest of Inland’s board met again to entertain an offer to buy the nonprofit’s most valuable asset, a fiber-optic provider called Windwave Communications. It was enjoying a booming business serving Amazon data centers near the small city of Boardman.

Windwave’s would-be buyers? A cadre of Inland insiders, including the three men who had just resigned from the nonprofit’s board

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