O'CLOCK. >> I'M KEVIN OVER AND I'M JOLEEN CHANEY. WE START TONIGHT WITH THE NEW BOMBSHELL TODAY IN THE SWAT SCANDAL, A GRAND JURY INDICTED SWAT LEAST FOGGY BOTTOM KITCHENS, TOP 3 EXECUTIVES CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA NEWS 4 SPENCER HUMPHREY HAS BEEN DIGGING THROUGH THAT INDICTMENT FOR US IS JOINING US NOW. LIVES WHAT YOU FOUND OUT. >> AND AS WELL, THAT INDICTMENT CLAIMS THOSE 3 MEN KNOWINGLY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THEIR POSITION AS THE SOLE OPERATOR OF OKLAHOMA STATE PARKS, RESTAURANTS. >> CHARGING THE STATE MORE MONEY THAN THEY WERE ACTUALLY OWED WITH STATE LEADERS ALL SIGNING OFF ON IT. NOW, LEGAL EXPERTS SAY THERE ARE LIKELY STILL MORE DOMINOES TO FALL. THE 7 PAGE INDICTMENT LAYS OUT HOW 12 JURORS FROM ACROSS OKLAHOMA BELIEVE THE FOUNDERS OF SWAT LEE'S FOGGY BOTTOM KITCHEN DEFRAUDED THE STATE. IT CLAIMS FOUNDER BRENT'S WADLEY COO TIMOTHY HOOPER AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT CURTIS BREW PLANNED KNOWINGLY OVERCHARGED THE STATE FOR NUMEROUS EXPENSES. >> WHILE THEY OPERATED RESTAURANTS IN OKLAHOMA STATE PARKS. IN ONE CASE, IT CLAIMS THEY CHARGE THE STATE 30% MORE THAN THEY SHOULD HAVE FOR TO MEET SMOKERS. THEY BOUGHT IT ALSO CLAIMS THEY GOT OVERPAID BY A RESTAURANT SUPPLIER AND REPORTED AS A REBATE.
IT EVEN CLAIMS THE MEN REFUSED TO HAND OVER INVOICES, SHOWING THE ACTUAL COSTS WHEN ASKED EACH OF THEM GETTING 5 CHARGES OF DEFRAUDING THE STATE AND ONE CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FRAUD. IT LOOKS LIKE THESE PEOPLE WERE ADDED ON THESE CONTRACTORS ACROSS THE STATE PARKS. >> BUT VERY LITTLE OVERSIGHT AND A GIANT POT OF MONEY THAT THEY COULD DRAW FROM. >> ALMOST IT WILL. FORMER ASSISTANT OKLAHOMA ATTORNEY GENERAL TIM GILPIN SAYS THESE KIND OF CHARGES COULD COME WITH SOME SERIOUS PENALTIES. I DOUBT VERY MUCH READING THE INDICTMENT AT THIS JUNCTURE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A SLAP ON THE WRIST. I MEAN, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SOME TIME. HE HAS ONE BIG TAKE AWAY THE STATEMENT. IT'S TAXPAYER MONEY. THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ALL KINDS OF LEVELS OF CHECK AND RECHECK AN ODDITY, BUT APPARENTLY JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN WHERE I WOULD SIT IN. MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THIS WITH BRADY D STATE REPRESENTATIVE JJ HUMPHREY SAT ON A COMMITTEE TASKED WITH INVESTIGATING THIS WADLEY SITUATION. HE DOESN'T THINK THE INDICTMENT WENT FAR ENOUGH.
I WAS REALLY EXPECTING SOME INDICTMENTS FROM PEOPLE IN THE TOURISM ACTUALLY STATE PEOPLE WHO ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN. >> OR OR PARTICIPATED. AND TO THAT GILPIN THINKS THERE COULD BE MORE DOMINOES TO FALL. AN IMPORTANT PART OF ALL OF THIS IS THE POLITICS THAT ARE WHAT POLITICIANS WERE >> ENGAGED WITH THESE TO WHAT EXTENT A SUSPECT AT THE GRAND JURY WAS DOING THEIR JOB.
THEY'LL HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE THAT THE PROSECUTOR, THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, COULD PICK IT UP AND LEAD TO ELSEWHERE. >> NOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE AN INDICTMENT IS NOT A CONVICTION. IT JUST MEANS A GRAND JURY THINKS THERE'S ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CHARGE THESE MEN AND SEND THE CASE TO TRIAL. NOW IN A STATEMENT, BRENT'S WANT LEE'S ATTORNEY TOLD US WE ABSOLUTELY DENY ANY WRONGDOING.
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