{"id":749665,"date":"2025-07-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/?p=749665"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:25:36","slug":"failed-seizure-of-a-vulnerable-vet-at-oklahomas-largest-hospital-hints-at-crisis-to-come-for-aging-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/07\/28\/failed-seizure-of-a-vulnerable-vet-at-oklahomas-largest-hospital-hints-at-crisis-to-come-for-aging-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed Seizure of a Vulnerable Vet at Oklahoma\u2019s Largest Hospital Hints at Crisis to Come for Aging Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-custom-everlit-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_1Po8xtXX9YQ?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>In 2016, Ken Donley, then 73, set out for the Claremore Walmart to pick up some oil for his lawn tractor. Sometime later, Donley\u2019s family \u2014 wife and two daughters \u2014 found him wandering confused in the Walmart parking lot not far from his truck, which he believed had been stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019d been gone for four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donley was a classic middle-American man. He met his future wife when they were 14 years old, and served four years in the Air Force as a communications specialist during the Vietnam War. He worked 30 years in the telecom industry, lost sight in one eye to an ocular stroke in 1981 and had a triple bypass in 2001, his daughter, Donna Donley, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Donley retired a couple years later; that\u2019s when he started to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t Dad,\u201d Donna Donley, 54, said. \u201cHe used to joke around, but you just couldn\u2019t joke with him anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family brushed it aside for a long time, convinced themselves it was stress or that he was having hypoglycemic episodes because he was also diabetic. Even Ken Donley\u2019s doctor \u2014 no spring chicken himself \u2014 missed the signs of Alzheimer\u2019s, which was officially diagnosed in 2017.<\/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=\"753628\">\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, (min-width: 782px) 600px, (min-width: 600px) 42.5vw, 90vw\">\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>Before then, the scene at Walmart was the final straw of a series of episodes that have become common for families across the country: misplaced belongings, confused directions on familiar roads. In the parking lot, Ken Donley was reduced to tears of frustration, and that made no sense at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was a guy who kicked butt and took names,\u201d Donna Donley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following year, the family took action, assigning durable power of attorney to Ken Donley\u2019s wife, Ollie, and his two daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe powers granted by this document are broad and sweeping,\u201d the document reads, specifying that Donley\u2019s family could make health and medical care decisions for him, choose health providers and where he lived, and share his medical records as they saw fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several years later, when Ken Donley needed to go to the emergency room at St. Francis Hospital, Donna Donley believed the durable power of attorney would protect him from whatever the hospital might try to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An All-Too-Familiar Story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Donley reached out to Oklahoma Watch after it told<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/06\/18\/eldercare-nightmare-a-tragic-family-story-raises-the-specter-of-widespread-guardianship-fraud\/\"> the story of Leroy Theodore<\/a>, who became the subject of a still-ongoing guardianship battle when he was admitted to St. Francis in April. Theodore\u2019s predicament in the eldercare system hints at the potential in Oklahoma for the sorts of guardianship abuses \u2014 third parties seizing legal control of vulnerable adults, for financial gain \u2014 that have become a plague across the country and may worsen as the population ages, although hospitals in Oklahoma are not permitted to become guardians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oklahoma\u2019s elderly population is<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahoma.gov\/okdhs\/services\/cap\/aging-our-way.html\"> expected<\/a> to increase by 21.3% by 2034, when for the first time, Oklahomans 65 and over will outnumber children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leroy Theodore\u2019s story was all too familiar to Donna Donley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Donley outlived his wife, who died of congestive heart failure in October 2020; not long after, his personality took a darker turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was angry,\u201d Donna Donley said. \u201cI don\u2019t think he knew what he was angry about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna and her sister, Dianna, continued to care for their father, even as he began to call them hurtful names and it became a struggle to get him into bed.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-749676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donley-Family-circa-1999-1-600x400.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ken Donley with his wife and daughters, circa 1999. (Courtesy Photo\/Donley Family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Then Ken Donley began to pull his daughters\u2019 hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another doctor recommended taking him to the emergency room at St. Francis because they had psychiatrists who could evaluate him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Donley checked him in at approximately 8 a.m. on May 1, 2021. At 2 p.m., after Donna almost fell out of her chair from exhaustion, the hospital told her to go home and wait for a call. They said they might check her father into Laureate, St. Francis\u2019s adjacent psychiatric facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Donley agreed, but her suspicions were raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI knew it,\u201d she said. \u201cI had an inkling when they said psychiatric that I had better watch them. I knew!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 6 p.m., Ken Donley had been transferred to Laureate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: A Harrowing Work Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought this was a fluke,\u201d Donna Donley said, reflecting on her father\u2019s ultimate fate. \u201cI thought it just happened to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she read Leroy Theodore\u2019s story, she knew it wasn\u2019t a fluke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For its original story, Oklahoma Watch spoke to a source inside the hospital, an individual whose identity is known but who prefers to remain anonymous, fearing retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, the source said court proceedings had been launched in as many as 15 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients were sent to Laureate to make them easier to hide, the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the source says that seizures may be accelerating, including one as recent as July 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the source described a harrowing work atmosphere, amid rumors of mysterious changes afoot at St. Francis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees are afraid to talk to one another because they\u2019re not sure who they can trust, the source said. Patient meal portions are being cut by a third, and employee retirement account contributions have been trimmed and raises linked to performance evaluations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors and staff are leaving \u2014 as many as 10 at a time \u2014 because they have been asked to do things they don\u2019t want to do, the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to St. Francis\u2019s adjacent psychiatric facility \u2014 which recently announced an<a href=\"https:\/\/tulsaworld.com\/news\/local\/article_ba879861-dc66-426e-8c5c-6bc77a9f1abf.html\"> expansion<\/a> from 45 to 60 beds \u2014 the source did not hesitate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to go to Laureate, because you\u2019ll be disappeared,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with Oklahoma Watch\u2019s original story, St. Francis Health System Corporate Communications facilitator Lynn Casey, who in 2020 left a career as a news anchor at KOKI-TV, did not respond to a request for comment on the case of Ken Donley or recent changes at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Growing Issue Nationwide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s is not a<a href=\"https:\/\/alzheimersnewstoday.com\/columns\/alzheimers-disease-is-not-mental-illness\/\"> psychiatric condition<\/a>. Nevertheless, Ken Donley was sent to Laureate, and while he was there, it was as though he had vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Donley wouldn\u2019t see her father for five days; visits were prohibited, and even phone calls required leaps through extra bureaucratic hoops, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, Ken Donley was expelled back to St. Francis with mysterious marks on his ankles and wrists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Donley\u2019s fears that something was amiss were affirmed on her father\u2019s first night in Laureate, when she received a call saying that her durable power of attorney wasn\u2019t enough. The hospital would file a mental health petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oklahoma Watch\u2019s St. Francis source said that mental health petitions \u2014 which can be used to pursue involuntary commitment \u2014 are arguably even worse than guardianship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s effectively the same thing, but it seems like the mental part trumps it because it overrules the family and everything,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Center for Estate Administration Reform founder Rick Black \u2014 CERA\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cearjustice.org\/about-us\/\"> work<\/a> on fraudulent guardianships resulted in criminal charges against at least 10 attorneys and inspired significant changes to Nevada law \u2014 said that mental health holds are a growing issue nationwide and are known by a variety of names: 5150 in California, Legal2000 in Nevada, Baker Act in Florida, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHolds are easily obtained by motivating a medical professional or law enforcement officer to take the vulnerable adult to a hospital,\u201d Black said in an email. \u201cOnce admitted, qualified doctors have every ability, with good intentions or not, to draft paperwork that easily justifies a guardianship, whether one is needed or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He Had a Stroke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Donley protested the mental health petition filed by St. Francis for her father, Ken Donley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She rushed to the hospital with evidence of her durable power of attorney; after she presented it, the mental health petition seemed to evaporate. Over the phone, the Tulsa County court clerk said it had been either dismissed or withdrawn, Donna Donley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appeared that the effort to seize Ken Donley had been aborted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was promptly kicked back from Laureate to St. Francis; no one told his daughter, and for more than a day she didn\u2019t know where her father was.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dad.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-749677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dad.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dad.jpg?resize=400%2C570&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dad.jpg?w=421&amp;ssl=1 421w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dad-211x300.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ken Donley (Courtesy Photo\/Donley Family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Donna Donley recalled a panicked phone call with someone at St. Francis, a good soul who was as distressed as Donna was at not being able to locate her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospital documents show that Ken Donley was returned to the St. Francis ER, and was then checked into a hospital room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There, he had a stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Donley\u2019s new nurses knew almost nothing about him \u2014 they hadn\u2019t even been told he had family members who cared for him, Donna Donley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she finally saw her father, Donna found scabs and abrasions on his wrists and ankles, with clear patterns of some kind of coarse strap having been used to restrain him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remainder of Ken Donley\u2019s life played out sadly: he was sent to Rolling Hills Care Center in Catoosa, which was suggested by St. Francis, Donna Donley said, even though St. Francis<a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintfrancis.com\/services\/neurosciences\/stroke-care?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22402069393&amp;gbraid=0AAAAA_ODMO48rcRbyjozdNK-lLrTPon0t&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw7fzDBhA7EiwAOqJkhxLKlJ5OesVd84wKCmM30sDFpD7GCWBQbFanbSwNwaH1srtMWfugKxoCUhYQAvD_BwE\"> boasts<\/a> of being a world-class stroke recovery center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the weeks to come, as a result of an Oklahoma State Department of Health investigation initiated by Donna Donley, allegations of deficient practice for failing to provide adequate care to dependent residents at Rolling Hills were substantiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Donley came home and died a short time later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Journey Into the Absurd<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Donna Donley appears to have saved her father from a long stay at Laureate, she said she was left feeling that St. Francis had killed her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the five days Ken Donley was held in Laureate, the psychiatric hospital charged $12,198, of which $10,714 was paid for by Medicare \u2014 that is, taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading Leroy Theodore\u2019s story, Donna Donley was inspired to find out more about what happened to her father, but her efforts to examine documents related to Laureate\u2019s aborted medical health petition were stymied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tulsa records clerks permitted Donna to submit a request for documentation from Tulsa Judge Wilma Palmer, who presides over the mental health docket, adding the caveat that provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \u2014 known as HIPAA \u2014 might prevent access to documents even though Donna was an adult child invested with durable power of attorney over her father\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 18, the clerks indicated that Judge Palmer would see the request within a day; to date, no ruling or order on Donna\u2019s request has been forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equally frustrating, the clerks could not cite the specific portion of HIPAA that would deny document access to a legal representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Efforts to pinpoint the relevant portion of HIPAA proved to be a futile journey into the absurd; neither the records clerks, nor Judge Palmer\u2019s clerks, nor the communications director of the Tulsa County District Attorney\u2019s office were able to reference the relevant portion of HIPAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CERA\u2019s Rick Black was not surprised that the law was invoked by those who could not cite it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHIPAA is routinely violated in these proceedings as the evidence of a \u2018claimed\u2019 mental health concern is given to third parties who have no legitimate right to be provided these patients\u2019 health records,\u201d Black said. \u201cThe problem is that the system is managed within the civil court system. These courts can easily be perverted by the attorneys and professionals working there for self-serving reasons versus being in the best interest of the client.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An exasperated Donna Donley, still grieving her father, expressed a similar sentiment more simply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt chaps my hide \u2014 DOGE can use Medicare and Medicaid information to deport people, but I can\u2019t even get forms about my father,\u201d Donna Donley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: This story was updated on Aug. 28, 2025, to correct an error. 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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=\"749665\">\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. 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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. 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