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Oklahoma Scandals Rock State Highest Court
Oklahoma voters faced a brutal reckoning as a grand jury exposed bribes affecting the State Supreme Court and legislators. Justice Napoleon Rananne, Earl Welch and others faced impeachment or legal penalties amid revelations of payoffs totaling hundreds of thousands. The report linked bribery to Selected Investments and other figures, with calls for reform and a constitutional amendment to create a special court to police judges.
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State Supreme Court
Oklahoma
B. Andrew Polter
U.S
Supreme Court
Shaw Ture
Corn
Oklahoma City
Okla
Johnson and Welch
Beenj
Johnson
Biblical Times
Carroll
Court House
Charles Nesbitt
Nesbitt
Vuapalit Jou0son
Earl Welch
A. Cargill
N. S. Corn
State Senate
Welch
Cargill
Hugh Carroll
Selected Investments
Justice Johnson
Carny
Muriel Woosley
Woosley
J. D. McCarty
Everett Collins
Whit Pate
J. Howard Edmondson
Forrest Castle
State Crime Bureau
Edmondson
Uade Pate
Pate
George Dick Spraker
Spraker
Bryce Baggett
Milton Craig
Fitzhugh Lee Welch
Max Genet Jr
Exstate
Genet
State Commerce and Industry Department
Jack Rhodes
Legislative Council
National Legislative Council
Harvard
Henry Bellman
Floyd
Jackson
Grand Jury