Former Tigard legislative candidate pleads guilty to incest charge

Tony Marino also served on the Tigard Chamber of Commerce

By Stover E Harger III

The Times, Sep 10, 2009, Updated Oct 30, 2009 (2 Reader comments)

Tony J. Marino

Courtesy of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office

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A Tigard businessman who ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Oregon Legislature in 2008, pleaded guilty last month to having sex with his adult daughter in 2008.

Tony J. Marino, 48, who has worked in broadcasting, marketing and Web development, and is a former board member of the Tigard Chamber of Commerce, will be sentenced Sept. 25 in Pierce County, Wash. He was initially charged with raping his estranged daughter, but the superior court in Pierce County changed the charges to second-degree incest — a class C felony — in exchange for a guilty plea.

Marino is currently lodged in the Pierce County Jail.

Marino, who created and ran America Web Works from Tigard, pleaded guilty to sexual contact with his daughter while they were staying at the Emerald Queen Casino and Hotel in Fife, Wash. on Aug. 16, 2008. The daughter reported this incident to Tigard police on Feb. 17, 2009, telling them her father had nonconsensual sexual intercourse with her while she said she was intoxicated.

Multiple telephone numbers associated with Marino called Wednesday were disconnected and the Web site for America Web Works is no longer active.

Marino, a Republican, lost to incumbent state Rep. Larry Galizio with 36 percent of the vote for Oregon House District 35 last November.

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