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Phil Bacharach, Communications Director
Office: 405-522-3116
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Leslie Berger, Press Secretary
Office: 405-522-1863
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Press Releases and Articles

August 9, 2017

Counties include: Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa and Wagoner

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter is reminding Oklahomans in Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa and Wagoner counties the Emergency Price Stabilization Act is in effect after the state of emergency declared earlier today.

July 26, 2017

General Hunter: New division dedicated to working across agency lines

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter’s new Criminal Justice Division has filed first degree murder charges on a 1984 cold case that happened at a lumberyard in Idabel.

According to documents filed in McCurtain County, Ernest Lewis is accused of shooting and killing Johnny Smith on June 28, 1984, during their shift at the K.C.S. Lumber Company.

July 25, 2017

ENID – Garfield County Judge Paul Woodward unsealed indictments today issued by the state’s multicounty grand jury revealing the names of six individuals charged in the death of Anthony Huff, who died at the Garfield County Jail in June 2016.

Grand jurors have met and received evidence on this case since March. Last week jurors handed up second degree manslaughter charges on the following individuals, who worked at the jail:

July 19, 2017

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter today joined a group of 11 students from Positive Tomorrows to tour the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum’s new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning lab after a recent office-wide fundraiser produced enough money to pay for students’ admission and provide lunch.

Volunteer coordinators in the attorney general’s office came up with the idea to send the kids to the STEM lab after a T-shirt sale left the office with over $250 in cash.

July 17, 2017

TULSA – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has charged Dr. James Fleckenstein with obtaining possession of opioid pain medication by fraud, after an investigation by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBNDD) and Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office.

July 12, 2017

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter today filed charges against two individuals during the National Health Care Fraud Takedown effort.

The takedown is a nationwide sweep led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Medicare Fraud Strike Force in partnership with other federal, state and local law enforcement entities to crackdown on healthcare fraud schemes.

Attorney General Hunter said his office is committed to stopping healthcare fraud and prosecuting individuals who intend to harm Oklahomans.

June 30, 2017

State seeks damages for misleading marketing practices and misrepresentation

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter today filed a lawsuit in Cleveland County against four of the nation’s leading manufacturers of opioid pain medication, claiming the effects of deceptive marketing campaigns over the last decade have fueled the state’s opioid epidemic.

June 26, 2017

OKLAHOMA CITY – Gerald Prindle, 39, has pleaded guilty to charges relating to child pornography and received a 15-year sentence to be served under the custody and control of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections following charges filed by Attorney General Mike Hunter in May.

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