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Press Releases and Articles

August 18, 2017

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter joined a bi-partisan coalition of 49 attorneys general urging Congress to affirm that all law-enforcement agencies retain their traditional authority to fight sex trafficking.

August 17, 2017

12 law enforcement agencies received money, property from efforts

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter met with and presented checks to representatives with law enforcement agencies and district attorneys today at the monthly District Attorneys Council meeting for the role each played in providing assistance or manpower during the 2015 raid of the Mr. Coolz shops in Oklahoma City, shutting down a criminal enterprise. 

August 15, 2017

By Rachael Van Horn Staff Writer Aug 15, 2017 

Attorney General Mike Hunter was the speaker at the Woodward Chamber of Commerce luncheon Monday. (Photo by Johnny McMahan)

The opioid crisis, among other subjects, such as Dodd-Frank were among topics discussed at the Woodward Chamber of Commerce luncheon Monday.

August 11, 2017

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has filed charges on a mother and daughter who allegedly ran multiple Medicaid fraud schemes from their behavioral health counseling company.

Lexie Batchelor, 59, of Atoka, is charged with three counts of Medicaid fraud and one count of identity theft, and Heather Doss, 43, of Tulsa is charged with one count of Medicaid fraud and one count of identity theft.

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.

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