A Former Prosecutor Fighting For Your Rights In State And Federal Courts
Oklahoma residents who have followed the 2019 college admissions scandal may be interested to learn that a 49-year-old Hot Pocket heiress has been sentenced for her part in the scam. The woman was ordered to serve five months in prison and pay $250,000. She is one of...
Police in Oklahoma say that a shootout in Pottawatomie County on Jan. 23 was related to the attempted robbery of a drug dealer. Two men have been taken into custody in connection with an incident that was captured by a home security camera. The footage appears to show...
Anyone in Oklahoma could be a victim of identity theft despite their best efforts to protect their information. For instance, if a bank or major website experiences a data breach, an individual's credit card or checking account number could be accessible to anyone who...
Oklahomans who are facing bribery charges should take them seriously. A bribery conviction can result in serious penalties, including substantial fines and sentences to incarceration. It is important for people to understand bribery charges and to get help if they...
If the IRS suspects that a taxpayer is engaging in fraudulent behavior, it may investigate its tax return. It isn't uncommon for individuals to overstate how many people live in their homes or for those who are paid in cash to improperly report their income. Companies...
On Dec. 6, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictments of 35 people in connection with a methamphetamine trafficking ring operated from within the Oklahoma prison system. The charges are the culmination of a 12-month investigation conducted by local,...
A routine traffic stop in Oklahoma on the evening of Nov. 30 led to the discovery of marijuana, methamphetamine, firearms, and drug paraphernalia, the Clinton Police Department has reported. A 23-year-old man, a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman were taken into...
Like other Oklahoma City taxpayers, one thing you may dislike more than paying taxes is filling out your income tax forms. The least the IRS could do is make filling out the forms easy, since paying taxes is an obligation. Unfortunately, that probably isn't going to...
Oklahoma residents may have been surprised when federal prosecutors announced that a University of Miami professor had been charged with laundering money. The case is unusual because the professor wrote a book about organized crime and corruption in South America and...
Low-cost presumptive field tests in the hands of police officers regularly produce false positives that send people to jail on drug charges. A public defender working in Tulsa County said that about once a month she represents defendants arrested after the field tests...
