{"id":750187,"date":"2025-08-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/?p=750187"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:24:24","slug":"diy-justice-in-the-panhandle-you-might-have-to-defend-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/08\/08\/diy-justice-in-the-panhandle-you-might-have-to-defend-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Justice: In the Panhandle, You Might Have to Defend Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-custom-everlit-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_zK3G5cR3lqK?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>Trena Moser broke bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moser moved to Guymon from Texas when she was 25 years old to work at Seaboard Foods, the<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/172474\/police-killing-refugee-oklahoma-seaboard-pork-plant\"> controversial<\/a> hog-slaughtering plant on the edge of town that by some accounts<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgou.org\/science-technology-and-environment\/2024-06-10\/how-seaboard-foods-rebuilt-the-oklahoma-panhandles-economy-which-ushered-in-a-new-era-of-groundwater-depletion\"> rebuilt<\/a> the panhandle economy. She didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t handle the pigs everywhere,\u201d Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She went on to work serially at a doctor\u2019s office, the telephone company, a local attorney\u2019s office, as a roll-off truck dispatcher for the Seward County landfill, and finally for a property management firm. Interspersed with all that, she got married and became the spitting image of an Oklahoman suburban mom with four children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all really good kids, despite their mother,\u201d Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What she meant was that after a pair of traumas, she turned to selling methamphetamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d gone through a divorce, I\u2019d lost my job,\u201d Moser said. \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have messed with drugs. It was a fast, easy way to make money.\u201d<\/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=\"750187\">\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>She wasn\u2019t any kind of kingpin, and like the pigs, it didn\u2019t last. Moser was arrested after making several sales to undercover law enforcement officers. She got a lawyer, copped to the crime, and accepted a plea deal to accept her fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it got weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the months to come, Moser would be arrested twice more for embezzlement, a crime she denies; her prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Taos Smith, threatened to revoke her plea deal on the trafficking charge if she didn\u2019t also plead guilty on the embezzlement charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can be a lot of things, but I didn\u2019t take that money,\u201d Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moser acknowledged that prosecutors frequently revoke plea deals, but that didn\u2019t make it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt may be common, but is it legal?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Common but possibly illegal is perhaps the best way to summarize the execution of justice in remote Oklahoma, and what Moser would learn is that in a corrupt system, you might wind up having to fight to defend yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Only Bondsman in Texas County<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moser had minor difficulties with the law in the past \u2014 debt issues and bounced checks \u2014 but she also had a do-gooder streak, as evidenced by a still-pending whistleblower case in which she unveiled wrongdoing in her job as a landfill dispatcher and by once taking in an aging woman who was suffering abuse at the hands of her family, Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latter episode resulted in Moser inheriting a modest bit of farmland on the edge of Guymon. It was a mixed blessing because there were expenses and work required to clear the land, and that work was what resulted in Moser falling into the orbit of a drug dealer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, Moser explained, it was the granddaughter of the aging woman she\u2019d cared for who set her up to sell drugs to undercover agents of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. Moser never actually possessed the drugs she sold, she said, but remotely arranged sales and pickup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was my first offense,\u201d Moser said. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know how much the drugs should weigh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first evidence of peculiarity in Moser\u2019s story was a $75,000 bond for a first-time trafficking charge of small amounts of meth. Even the bondsman, Tina Smith of A-1 Tony\u2019s Bail Bonds in Guymon, the only bondsman in Texas County, said the bond seemed high for the crime, Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The website of A-1 Tony\u2019s Bail Bonds claims the organization was founded in 1998 by Tina Smith\u2019s husband, Tony Smith, who in 2017 self-published a book reflecting on his earlier career as a bounty hunter entitled \u201cKickin\u2019 Doors and Slappin\u2019 Whores: Tales of a Cowboy Bounty Hunter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s not the strange part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was odd was that Moser\u2019s prosecutor, Taos Smith, was the son of Tina and Tony Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awkward conflicts of interest are common in small towns. The first judge assigned to Moser\u2019s case was forced to recuse because he\u2019d been the attorney Moser worked for before he was elected to the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frequency does not make conflicts of interest legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to bondsmen, Oklahoma law is not much help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Title 59 specifies that marriage or cohabitation of a bondsman to individuals prohibited from becoming bondsmen \u2014 judges, police officers and others \u2014 does not by itself indicate a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law is silent on other family relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is statutorily enshrined is the ability of the Oklahoma Insurance Department commissioner to exercise discretion in determining when an actionable conflict of interest exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready refused to comment on whether the department had received complaints about high bond amounts in District One and the parent-child relationship between the lone bondsman in Texas County and the ADA. Oklahoma Watch then formally requested those records, but has not received them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By way of contrast, the Justice Department offers clear guidelines that forbid government employees from participating in matters that might impute to them financial gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participating in a prosecution is prohibited when the employee \u201chas a specific and substantial interest that would be directly affected by the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, as Trena Moser put it when she eventually filed a motion in her own defense, \u201cThe prosecutor\u2019s family benefits financially from Ms. Moser\u2019s ongoing prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s All About That Money<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Money may be the motive behind every aspect of Moser\u2019s prosecution \u2014 and, for that matter, behind every drug prosecution in the panhandle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After she agreed to a plea deal, embezzlement charges were brought when Moser turned over a file from her then-current job containing several thousand dollars. The file remained in police possession, untracked for days, Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moser suspected that the money had little to do with what the police really wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A common theme in the tips that Oklahoma Watch received in response to its<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/02\/12\/traffic-scheme-nets-texas-county-das-office-millions\/\"> Justice in No Man\u2019s Land<\/a> series is accounts of clumsy efforts on the part of law enforcement to recruit confidential informants; that is, to coerce panhandle residents to turn on each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billy Green, featured in the<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/06\/06\/double-jeopardy-two-levels-of-justice-in-rural-oklahoma\/\"> second story<\/a> of the Justice in No Man\u2019s Land series, recalled having his home raided for incriminating items such as a dart board, a Wile E. Coyote mirror and a ceramic cow skull, only to have police attempt to compel him to make undercover drug purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problem: 19-year-old Green didn\u2019t know any drug dealers. He was hit with a $45,000 bond for a first-time charge of knowingly concealing stolen property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about money. It\u2019s all about getting money to the municipality. It\u2019s revenue for the county.\u201d<\/p><cite>Tomas Toca<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More troublingly, Brittany Sanchez, whose harrowing narrative will be featured in a future installment in the Justice in No Man\u2019s Land series, recalled an arrest she described as bogus for fraudulent check-writing when she was nine months pregnant with her first child. The true goal of the arrest, Sanchez said, was to track down the man whom police believed to be the father of her baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problem: the father was another man entirely, and Sanchez wound up delivering her baby while she was shackled to a hospital bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomas Toca, who was a drug dealer in the panhandle for a time, recounted numerous experiences with a complex system of recruiting informants in Texas County; Toca\u2019s own friends had been coerced into turning on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even a judge once expected him to provide evidence to police, Toca said. In court, his judge told him, \u201cWe\u2019re just waiting on you to do your part.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toca\u2019s story, too, will be recounted in a future article; after multiple prison stints, he is now years removed from his time on probation, but continues to suffer harassment at the hands of local police, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fact that I didn\u2019t turn informant could explain why I am treated the way I am treated,\u201d Toca said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toca is a quiet, charismatic, and thoughtful man who likened the system of informant recruitment in the panhandle to a kind of speed trap. Local law enforcement doesn\u2019t want you in prison, he said, because if you\u2019re in prison, you\u2019re not paying the kinds of fees and fines that are now being<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/newsletter\/stitt-endorses-court-fines-and-fees-reform\/#:~:text=That%20measure%20cleared%20the%20House,at%20Kross@Oklahomawatch.org.\"> reexamined<\/a> in Oklahoma. Prosecutors aim for plea bargains with long periods of probation, Toca said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about money,\u201d Toca said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about getting money to the municipality. It\u2019s revenue for the county.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Snitch and Forfeiture Mills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the police really wanted from Moser was for her to make drug purchases undercover, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She tried. She tried again and again, but Guymon is a small town, and no one trusted her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her plea deal was withdrawn, and she was hit with embezzlement charges because she couldn\u2019t give police what they wanted, Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moser went into debt to her boyfriend and his mother to cover additional bonds on the embezzlement charges; she was left unable to pay the attorney she\u2019d hired for the trafficking charge to represent her on the new charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was forced to turn to Vonda Wilkins of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System for representation, but once again, the claustrophobic nature of justice in the panhandle appeared to interfere with the impartial administration of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An email from ADA Smith to Wilkins disparaged Moser\u2019s version of events on the embezzlement charges and exhibited a surprising chumminess between the prosecutor and the public defender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tired of [Moser] screwing both you and me around on this,\u201d Smith wrote.<\/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\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025_0805_1DX11315-1-600x400.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cIt\u2019s all about money,\u201d said Tomas Toca, above. Toca has extensive experience in Texas County with what experts call snitch mills. (Brent Fuchs\/Oklahoma Watch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Wilkins refused to comment on Moser\u2019s case, but former statewide OIDS Executive Director Tim Laughlin largely agreed with Toca\u2019s characterization of how informants are employed, particularly by drug task forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn my experience over the last 28 years, that\u2019s the whole model of task forces going back thirty years,\u201d Laughlin said. \u201cDrug task forces have operated on a horizontal model, recruiting low-level informants on other low-level offenders, rather than working up the chain of command, functioning effectively as snitch mills and forfeiture mills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A History and a Culture of Impunity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What Moser wanted was to plead guilty to the crime she had committed, and innocent to the crime she denied having committed; in the panhandle, that appeared to be impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one was on her side, Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 17, Moser visited A-1 Tony\u2019s Bail Bonds, after Tina Smith requested that Moser appear to arrange additional bond payments. The real purpose of the meeting was confrontation, Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith challenged Moser for having spoken with Oklahoma Watch, and for having expressed concern that Smith\u2019s son was Moser\u2019s prosecutor. Smith threatened Moser with immediate jailing, Moser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The argument in A-1 Tony\u2019s offices nearly turned physical, Moser said in a detailed narrative produced immediately following the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tina and Taos Smith refused to comment for this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the confrontation, Moser resolved to take matters into her own hands. On July 24, she submitted a 19-page motion to suppress evidence, a sober and respectful filing documenting numerous irregularities in her case that included a range of supporting evidence and requested relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following day, Taos Smith filed a haphazard and meandering response that labeled Moser a drug-dealing thief while she still enjoyed a presumption of innocence, and described her carefully crafted motion as the ramblings of a meth-addicted mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese remarks are inappropriate, unprofessional, and beneath the dignity of this court,\u201d Moser wrote in her response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final resolution in Moser\u2019s case is outstanding. She\u2019s ready to pay for the crime she committed, she said, but will continue to fight the charges she denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moser doubts whether any particle notion of justice will determine her fate. She fears that she will be persecuted for exercising her right to defend herself by persons who enjoy a long history and a culture of impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI just feel like it has a lot to do with their power,\u201d Moser said. \u201cThey just think they can do whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: After Oklahoma Watch published an expos\u00e9 about a multi-million-dollar DA-run ticketing scheme in Texas County, we were flooded with tips from the panhandle. This story is the fourth in a series derived from those tips. The third story can be found <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/07\/21\/anonymous-source-sheds-light-on-panhandle-police-impunity\/\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/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\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-747888\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:192px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?resize=140%2C140&amp;ssl=1 140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Maria-Guinnip.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Maria Guinnip was a summer 2025 intern at Oklahoma Watch with support from Columbia University Graduate School and the Institute for Nonprofit News. She is now an Oklahoma-based journalist and Oklahoma Watch contributor. Contact her at <a href=\"mailto:mguinnip@oklahomawatch.org\">mguinnip@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\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=\"750187\">\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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