It was Fereidoun Khalilian — “Prince Fred,” or “Khalifa,” as he sometimes signs emails — who put the concept of a Native-owned poker website together. The Iowa Tribe later changed the name of the venture, said his software didn’t work and now won’t even take his phone calls.
In a jailhouse interview earlier this month, Maldonado-Passage told The Frontier that he had been “set up.”
A study at the Oklahoma Legislature to examine high insulin prices was abruptly canceled. “It’s frustrating, but it doesn’t change the fact that I intend to file legislation to look at how we can address this issue,” Rep. Forrest Bennett said.
Some of the aerospace company’s incentive deals with the state have retroactive start dates or were later amended to lower the employment threshold used to calculate the number of jobs company could claim payments on, The Frontier has found.
Monitors find children in state custody continue to experience abuse and neglect at “an alarmingly high rate.”
While political action committees must disclose their donors, dark money groups, which include social welfare groups, trade associations and unions, do not.
The Grand River Dam Authority will review the name lake named in honor of one of the founding members of the Ku Klux Klan.