AG Hunter charges two in Healthcare fraud

By Staff Report

OK Attorney General Mike Hunter

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter Wednesday 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 harm Oklahomans. Continue reading →

Credit rating impacts auto insurance cost

By Staff Report

With car-buying season in full gear, the free-credit-score website WalletHub today released its 2017 Car Insurance & Credit Scores Report, which examines the extent to which major auto insurers use credit data in policy pricing.

Highlights from the report include these jewels:

• Car insurance premiums in Oklahoma can fluctuate by 82% based on credit score. Continue reading →

Roughnecks “wrench” OKC Energy

By Rich Lohman

Collin Fernandez races down field on Saturday evening in OKC. Photo credit: Lori Scholl

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—When the Tulsa Roughnecks FC entered the USL in 2015 they became instant rivals with the OKC Energy FC, continuing an in-state rivalry that has existed across several different sports through the years.

Symbolic of the rivalry and the de facto Black Gold Derby “tournament” a large pipe wrench awarded to the winner of each game played between the two teams, and on Saturday evening on their rivals home pitch at Taft Stadium in Oklahoma City the Roughnecks reclaimed the wrench by posting a 2-1 victory over the Energy. Continue reading →

Oklahoma economic recovery underway

By Staff Report

State Treasurer Ken Miller

Oklahoma Gross Receipts to the Treasury for Fiscal Year 2017 indicate the state’s treasury began recovery at the midpoint of the fiscal year and continued through June, lagging slightly behind state gross domestic product figures (GDP), State Treasurer Ken Miller said today during a State Capitol news conference.

Monthly gross receipts have been higher than the same month of the prior year for five of the past six months. FY-17 gross receipts remain lower than the prior fiscal year by 1.5 percent, but the rate of decline is much smaller than the 7.2 percent decline between FY-15 and FY-16. Continue reading →

New court service improvement

By Staff Report

Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler

Tulsa District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler announced today the opening of the relocated DA Supervision Office from its previous location on 5th Street to a new permanent location on the first floor of the Tulsa County Courthouse.

“This was a goal I’ve had since I took Office and to see it come to fruition is extremely gratifying,” Kunzweiler said.  “Having the DA Supervision Department in the very same building as the all the misdemeanor and district courts will streamline the process for both business owners and victims of bogus checks, as well as simplify the process for defendants participating in probation.”    Continue reading →