Bill Adams testified for about half an hour Wednesday morning after earlier providing grand jurors with a trove of documents he had assembled. Adams said he could not discuss details of his testimony or the records he provided but said the evidence involved what he believes is corruption within the Sheriff’s Office.
A gleaming $45 million hospital in Jenks that opened last month has been unable to treat patients with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma insurance due to a contract dispute, leaving hospital owners worried about the future of the facility, its patients and nearly 130 employees, an investigation by The Frontier has found.
But perhaps the most damaging fallout is the possible closure of the Bristow Medical Center.
As the hour of his execution approaches, Richard Glossip is getting his 15 minutes of fame. And then some.
Glossip’s story will be featured on the Dr. Phil show Monday, the latest in a spree of national and international publicity for the Oklahoma death row inmate scheduled to die Sept. 16.
In their rush to build a compelling narrative of an innocent man about to be executed, some journalists who should know better have been remarkably incurious.
Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz wrote a letter last week to Sapulpa Police Chief Rick Rumsey expressing condolences on the department’s loss of one of its officers. However, Glanz’s letter not only contained an incorrect name and rank for the officer, it substituted the name of the officer’s alleged killer.
The letter also offered to help the department during a difficult time.
But when Sapulpa police asked for help investigating an unrelated homicide during the officer’s burial, a major with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office reportedly responded: “Why would we do that?”
“Words cannot express the disappointment I feel toward you and your department,” states the letter from Rumsey to Glanz, obtained by The Frontier. “I have never witnessed such a break in our law enforcement family.”
However records show Glanz may have reaped a healthy profit, depending on when he bought and sold the stock in Pure Bioscience, the California-based company that created Staph Attack.
Brinkley could face 20 years on each of the five wire fraud counts and three years on a tax evasion count. However, prosecutors said because he struck a plea deal, it is unlikely he will serve that amount of time.
The form was sent in an email to employees last week with the subject line “All Staff Must Sign Form.” It is titled “Proprietary Information and Works for Hire Acknowledgement.”
Ziva talks about appearing on CNN’s ‘Death Row Stories’ series, the continuing Glossip debate and a voice she was surprised to hear narrating for a news program.
