{"id":747649,"date":"2025-06-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/?p=747649"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:23:57","slug":"double-jeopardy-two-levels-of-justice-in-rural-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/06\/06\/double-jeopardy-two-levels-of-justice-in-rural-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Jeopardy: Two Levels of Justice in Rural Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-custom-everlit-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_9aLpxtzEqpa?client=wp&amp;client_version=2.6.0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note: <\/strong>After Oklahoma Watch published an <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/02\/12\/traffic-scheme-nets-texas-county-das-office-millions\/\"><em>expos\u00e9<\/em><\/a><em> about a multi-million-dollar DA-run ticketing scheme in Texas County, we were flooded with tips from the panhandle. This story is the first in a series derived from those tips called Justice in No Man\u2019s Land.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Texas County family, two stories of justice denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one story, a man pleaded no contest to carrying away by stealth, with intent and without consent, a controlled dangerous substance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the other, a young man pleaded guilty to several counts of possession of stolen property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first case, Jake Strain, then 34, stole oxycodone from Linda Brown and her husband over a six-month period, replacing the pills with Tylenol. Justice was lenient for Strain, as it was a first offense. He was given seven years\u2019 probation and a $1,000 fine. Strain lost his license to practice physical therapy, but he served no prison time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second case, a stolen computer was kept at the home of Billy Green, then 18. Green was charged with burglary and threatened with a sentence of 40 years. Green pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property, also a first offense, and was sentenced to five years in prison, five years\u2019 probation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linda Brown of the first story is the mother of Billy Green of the second story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond disparate outcomes, the difference between the two stories is that Green was represented by a Texas County contract lawyer for the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, while Strain, the son of a county commissioner, was represented by the former district attorney of district one, James \u201cMike\u201d Boring, who emerged from his 2021 retirement to take the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles is-style-borders wpnbha show-image image-alignright ts-4 is-1 is-landscape is-style-borders\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"747649\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>the latest<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"754196\" class=\"tag-attorney-general tag-cdc tag-covid-19 tag-george-monks tag-measles tag-oklahoma-news tag-oklahoma-state-department-of-health tag-oklahoma-state-medical-association tag-whooping-cough category-health category-publichealth type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2026\/01\/05\/oklahoma-health-department-refuses-to-share-county-level-measles-data\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Oklahoma Health Department Refuses to Share County-Level Measles Data\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><!-- .featured-image -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2026\/01\/05\/oklahoma-health-department-refuses-to-share-county-level-measles-data\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oklahoma Health Department Refuses to Share County-Level Measles Data<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/paulmonies\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cropped-Paul-Monies.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cropped-Paul-Monies-96x96.jpg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/paulmonies\/\">Paul Monies<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-01-05T06:01:00-06:00\">January 5, 2026<\/time><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2026-01-05T11:05:42-06:00\">January 5, 2026<\/time>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>For most of its existence, Boring ran the ticketing scheme in Texas County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legal entanglements of a Texas County mother and son \u2014 stories separated by a quarter century \u2014 illustrate the bifurcated nature of justice in rural Oklahoma, where who you know can make all the difference in the kind of justice you receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If You Pay Me, I\u2019ll Give You a Better Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999, Billy Green was a ne\u2019er-do-well in Hooker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green had run-ins with law enforcement as a minor, and after dropping out of high school and passing the GED, he started working as the handyman at the only apartment complex in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The home he lived in, owned by his mom, was a local hangout for Green\u2019s friends; sometimes he came home and found ten kids sitting around watching a movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, a friend who was still a minor brought over a computer that had been stolen from a local school; Green was known to be something of a tech nerd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He didn\u2019t find out what happened next until years later, and even then, the details were murky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either a kid named John Bird hoping to get out of a marijuana possession charge or someone from an organization called Panhandle Crimestoppers \u2014 maybe it was both \u2014 fingered the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police raided. News reports claimed that 93 stolen items were recovered. Green and his girlfriend at the time were charged with eight counts of knowingly concealing stolen property, according to Hooker\u2019s then-police chief, Larry Hinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stolen items were said to have included a BB gun, a gallon cider jug filled with pennies, a dart board, half a pool cue, a Yosemite Sam candle, several Hot Wheels cars, a small animal skull, a Confederate flag and an American flag, two bandanas, and a bag of seashells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green was charged with burglary as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, it seemed like they wanted him to turn rat, Green said. Two weeks after he was arrested, held on $45,000 bond, an officer promised immediate release if Green would buy narcotics undercover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey thought I was into drugs,\u201d Green said. \u201cBut when they found out I didn\u2019t know anything about the drug world, they said, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s not going to work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next came his attorney, James Loepp, a contract lawyer for the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loepp\u2019s representation was supposed to be free, but according to both Green and his mother, Loepp sat them down and explained straightaway that they would need to pay him if they wanted a good defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was like they were all after him, Green said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prosecution made a plea offer: 40 years. In the months they let him stew on that, an attorney named Crieg Rittenhouse visited Green in jail. Green had never hired Rittenhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re screwing you over big time,\u201d Green recalled Rittenhouse saying. \u201cThese charges are unlawful and need to be consolidated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what happened; the burglary charges were dropped and the prison time was reduced from 40 years to five. With decades of removal, Green now believes that neither Loepp nor Rittenhouse were on his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 40 years was just to scare me into thinking that five years in prison, five probation would be okay,\u201d Green said. \u201cThey were there to help convict me. They scared me to the point where I thought ten years was good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green took the deal and served two and a half years in prison; he was left with severe anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know things I shouldn\u2019t even know, because I learned them in prison,\u201d Green said. \u201cI have a mistrust of people now, especially law enforcement. They manipulated me. I\u2019m afraid they\u2019re going to do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eighteen years later, Texas County was still chasing Green down for thousands of dollars in fees of the sort that were<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/02\/18\/court-fines-and-fees-reform-has-broad-support-but-fiscal-questions-persist\/\"> recently eliminated<\/a> because excessive fees increase recidivism rates, according to Gov. Kevin Stitt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t care about the justice in it,\u201d Green said. \u201cThey railroaded a lot more people than me. I was a $4,000 ticket for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>:They don\u2019t care about the justice in it. They railroaded a lot more people than me.\u201d<\/p><cite>Billy Green<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Very Different Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A quarter century later, Green\u2019s mother, Linda Brown, had a very different experience of the Oklahoma justice system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2022, Brown\u2019s husband, Jim Brown, had knee replacement surgery and began working at home with a man named Jake Strain, who held a doctor of physical therapy degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple liked Strain, so when Linda Brown noticed him futzing with the couples\u2019 medications on an in-home security system a couple weeks later she didn\u2019t think much of it: Strain likely needed to know what pills her husband was taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strain didn\u2019t stick to his scheduled appointments. Through the summer, he showed up at the Browns\u2019 home unannounced, even on Sundays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was super nice, super good at his job\u2014and super good at lying,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, the Browns complained to their physician that their pain pills weren\u2019t working anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, insurance for the PT ran out, but Strain kept visiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe said he thought he was really helping Jim,\u201d Linda Brown said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late November, Linda Brown noticed that one of her husband\u2019s pills looked different from the others. After some digging, she was able to verify that what she had found in a prescription bottle was over-the-counter Tylenol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pharmacy verified that everything had been done correctly on their end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 1, Linda Brown visited Hooker Police Chief Scott Hedrick and told him that she believed Strain was stealing their pills. She would later learn that Strain stole 10 oxycodone pills on that same day from another victim in Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linda Brown purchased additional security cameras; on December 2, she caught Strain red-handed and took her evidence to Hedrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, Strain\u2019s movement through the justice system was quite different from Billy Green\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown believed that Hedrick had called Strain\u2019s father, Texas County Commissioner Jack Strain, because the next thing she knew, Jake Strain was in a rehab facility in Colorado. He had not been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hedrick and Strain did not respond to multiple queries for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next few days were difficult to track. Linda Brown spoke to Kevin McIntire, head of the District One Drug Task Force, which operated Texas County\u2019s multi-million-dollar ticketing scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 8, current District One DA George \u201cBuddy\u201d Leach, who ended the ticketing scheme during Oklahoma Watch\u2019s investigation, wrote to the office of the attorney general to request that the prosecution of Jake Strain be moved to another district because Leach\u2019s office represented Strain\u2019s father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the case was passed to District Two DA Angela Marsee, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control conducted an extensive investigation, said OBN public information officer Mark Woodward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of the investigation were not publicly available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the months to come, Linda Brown learned that Strain had as many as six additional victims in Oklahoma, and more in Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strain was finally arrested in August 2023, eight months after his crimes were exposed. He was charged \u2014 like Brown\u2019s son, decades before \u2014 with two separate crimes: larceny and exploitation of a vulnerable adult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His lawyer was a surprise: former DA Mike Boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leach said that to his knowledge Strain\u2019s case was the only time that Boring had come out of retirement to represent a client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boring did not respond to queries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Boring\u2019s help, Strain\u2019s bond was reduced from $50,000 to $20,000. He was immediately released on a personal recognizance bond for $2,000, and paid $50 for one day of jail costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He checked into Texas County Jail at 2:05 p.m., and checked out at 2:15 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, the case against Strain began to crumble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the victims, DA Marsee said, decided that they didn\u2019t want to testify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boring and Leach figured heavily in the tips that Oklahoma Watch has received since its January investigation. Current or recent residents of Texas County have described a culture of intimidation that includes harassment, vague threats, and selective investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some tipsters requested anonymity for fear of retribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, the exploitation of a vulnerable adult charge against Jake Strain was dropped. He pleaded no contest to the remaining charge, which carried a potential penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine; he was given seven years\u2019 probation and a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cI have a mistrust of people now, especially law enforcement. They manipulated me. I\u2019m afraid they\u2019re going to do that again.\u201d<\/p><cite>Billy Green<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A separate investigation by the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision found that Jake Strain had participated in dishonorable or immoral conduct; Strain\u2019s license to practice physical therapy was revoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DA Marsee believed the outcome was fair for the charges that stuck. She allowed that the result might have been different if all of Strain\u2019s victims had been willing to testify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know the answer to that,\u201d Marsee said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to say. Potentially, the result could have been different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s All Small Towns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an Oklahoma Bar Journal article titled \u201cWhen Geography Determines Justice: Examining Legal Deserts in Oklahoma,\u201d Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation Executive Director Katie Dilks described the precarious legal predicament of Oklahomans who live far from cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOklahoma\u2019s attorneys are increasingly concentrated in just a handful of counties, putting rural Oklahomans in the challenging situation of trying to navigate the legal system alone,\u201d Dilks wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither Dilks nor Colleen McCarty, the executive director of the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, believed that legal disparities like the outcomes in the cases of Strain and Green were a strictly rural phenomenon. Both, however, allowed that problems inherent to the system were exacerbated by rural settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just Oklahoma small towns, it\u2019s all small towns,\u201d McCarty said. \u201cI\u2019ve never heard of a case from a rural county where there was not some element of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCarty laid blame on the unchecked discretion of prosecutors, who wielded near-supreme power in the practical application of criminal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tulsa attorney James Wirth agreed that power could be abused in small towns but was inclined to attribute unjust outcomes to human nature, rather than malice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDAs overcharging and hanging the potential of 40 years over someone\u2019s head in order to get them to take a deal is unfortunately not that unusual if they don\u2019t like the defendant,\u201d Wirth said, after examining documents in Green\u2019s case. \u201cIf he was 18 in a small town and had prior law enforcement contact, they probably would not like him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wirth\u2019s colleague Keith Flinn agreed that awareness of crimes committed as a juvenile would be difficult to overlook even if a record was supposed to remain confidential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn a larger city, an accused might retain a level of anonymity that small-town Oklahoma simply cannot provide,\u201d Flinn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anecdotally, Dilks and McCarty were aware of abuses in the OIDS system in rural parts of the state, particularly when it came to private contract attorneys of the sort that had been assigned to Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damion Shade, the executive director of Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform, said data showed that private contract attorneys have worse outcomes than dedicated public defenders. The problem was that OIDS did not have enough money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrivate contractors make up 72% of all OIDS representations,\u201d Shade said. \u201cThis creates a two-tiered system of justice for low-income families and small towns that depend on these lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cPrivate contractors make up 72% of all OIDS representations. This creates a two-tiered system of justice for low-income families and small towns that depend on these lawyers.\u201d<\/p><cite>Damion Shade<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No Man\u2019s Land<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Strain frequently appears as \u201cDr. Jake Strain\u201d in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2024\/06\/24\/east-texas-addiction-recovery-facility-faces-lack-funding-treatment-medication\/\"> television news<\/a> stories, in his capacity as director of a Cenikor Foundation substance abuse facility in Tyler, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By way of contrast, Green has struggled to get on disability for his crippling anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted to be normal,\u201d Green said of 2001, when he was released from prison. \u201cI rushed things too much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He married and had a child; today, Green is estranged from both his ex-wife and his daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green lives with his mother in Broken Arrow. They left Hooker in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DA Leach said that he had recused from Strain\u2019s case as soon as Hooker police brought him their report. He had never met Jake Strain, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linda Brown had a hard time believing that. She emphasized that district one was geographically large but tiny in population, with 31,000 people in four counties. Not only did everyone know everyone, there was a small cabal of families that controlled everything in Texas County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She feared for her son\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey would do anything they could to put him back in jail,\u201d she said. \u201cI needed to get him out of there. All those people, they\u2019re all friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown and her son have been left with sour feelings for the town and county that was their home for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope that Texas County burns,\u201d Green said. \u201cI hope that everybody learns that people out there think they can act any way they want. It\u2019s called No Man\u2019s Land for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-747889\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:160px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?resize=140%2C140&amp;ssl=1 140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/JC-Hallman.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>JC Hallman covers a variety of topics for Oklahoma Watch. Contact him at <a href=\"mailto:jchallman@oklahomawatch.org\">jchallman@oklahomawatch.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-56a9e311 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles  wpnbha is-grid columns-3 colgap-3 show-image image-aligntop ts-4 is-3 is-landscape \" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"747649\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>MORE FROM JC HALLMAN<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"754167\" class=\"tag-amy-palumbo tag-attorney-general-mike-hunter tag-gentner-drummond tag-homeowners-insurance tag-insurance tag-oklahoma-insurance-commissioner-glen-mulready tag-oklahoma-news tag-state-farm category-business series-hail-no-why-homeowners-insurance-is-so-expensive type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/31\/judge-allows-attorney-general-to-intervene-in-state-farm-hail-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Judge Allows Attorney General to Intervene in State Farm Hail Lawsuit\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FullSizeRender-preview-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><!-- .featured-image -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/31\/judge-allows-attorney-general-to-intervene-in-state-farm-hail-lawsuit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Judge Allows Attorney General to Intervene in State Farm Hail Lawsuit<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Emotions flared and patience was tested as Oklahoma County District Court Judge Amy Palumbo granted Attorney General Gentner Drummond\u2019s effort to intervene in a State Farm hail case that has raised ire in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/jchallman\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-Hallman.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-Hallman-96x96.jpg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/jchallman\/\">J.C. Hallman<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"754029\" class=\"tag-billy-hursh tag-elections tag-gentner-drummond tag-homeowners tag-insurance tag-oklahoma-insurance-commissioner-glen-mulready tag-oklahoma-news tag-racketeering tag-rep-mark-tedford tag-sen-aaron-reinhardt tag-sen-julia-kirt tag-state-farm tag-state-rep-andy-fugate category-politics category-uncategorized type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/26\/too-little-too-late-too-weak-critics-react-to-proposed-insurance-legislation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Too Little, Too Late, Too Weak: Critics React to Proposed Insurance Legislation\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TED_3242-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><!-- .featured-image -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/26\/too-little-too-late-too-weak-critics-react-to-proposed-insurance-legislation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Too Little, Too Late, Too Weak: Critics React to Proposed Insurance Legislation<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Critics say new laws proposed by the insurance department ignore pervasive and sustained outrage over skyrocketing homeowners rates and would make it more difficult for policyholders to fight back.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/jchallman\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-Hallman.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-Hallman-96x96.jpg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/jchallman\/\">J.C. Hallman<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"753918\" class=\"tag-attorney-general tag-class-action-lawsuit tag-consumer-protection tag-corporate-accountability tag-corporate-misconduct tag-gentner-drummond tag-hail-damage tag-hurricane-katrina tag-insurance-claims tag-insurance-industry tag-insurance-litigation tag-legal-settlement tag-mckinsey-report tag-oklahoma tag-oklahoma-news tag-policyholder-rights tag-racketeering tag-rico tag-state-farm tag-wind-damage category-business series-hail-no-why-homeowners-insurance-is-so-expensive type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/18\/state-farm-dodged-billions-in-2018-settlement-now-faces-fresh-rico-charges-in-oklahoma\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/635238368079.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"State Farm Dodged Billions in 2018 Settlement, Now Faces Fresh RICO Charges in Oklahoma\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/635238368079.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/635238368079.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/635238368079.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/635238368079.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/635238368079.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/635238368079.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><!-- .featured-image -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/18\/state-farm-dodged-billions-in-2018-settlement-now-faces-fresh-rico-charges-in-oklahoma\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">State Farm Dodged Billions in 2018 Settlement, Now Faces Fresh RICO Charges in Oklahoma<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Attorney General Gentner Drummond\u2019s petition charging State Farm with racketeering under Oklahoma\u2019s version of the RICO laws is not the first time that Oklahoma\u2019s largest writer of homeowners insurance has been accused of being a criminal enterprise. Last time, State Farm agreed to pay $250 million; will they settle once again?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/jchallman\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-Hallman.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-Hallman-96x96.jpg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/jchallman\/\">J.C. 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