Levi M. Bakke

Levi M. Bakke founded Valor Investigations to publish source-backed investigative work about guardianship, elder care, health-care accountability, public records, and local government power in Eastern Oregon. His work is built around documents first: public records, court filings, agency correspondence, medical-record timelines, tax records, nonprofit disclosures, board minutes, and other source material that readers can inspect for themselves.

Bakke served in the United States Marine Corps with 1st Battalion, 1st Marines from 2000 to 2005. That background shapes the site's working method: establish the record, preserve provenance, test every claim against the file, and avoid publishing unsupported conclusions. Valor's investigations combine conventional reporting practices with structured data work, citation audits, public-records requests, and machine-assisted document review.

The current Valor archive focuses on Oregon guardianship and elder care, the Russell Bingaman case, the Jean McSherry case, public records litigation involving Oregon DHS, and the Union County term-limits record. Bakke also builds free public tools through the Advocate Toolkit so people can create complaint drafts, records requests, and self-advocacy documents without paying for a private service.

Valor Investigations is a journalism and public-interest research operation, not a law firm. Bakke is not an attorney and does not provide legal advice. The site's purpose is to publish records, explain patterns of institutional conduct, document source trails, correct errors transparently, and make the underlying materials easier for the public to review.