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The Grady County Gambling Raid case came to a logical conclusion Friday when former Grady County Sheriff Kieran McMullen, his wife Helen McMullen and two former deputies Delmer Barthelme and Robert Cacy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty for allowing illegal gambling at the Chickasha Elks Lodge.

The plea deal between the four former law officers and District Attorney Brett Burns calls for a six-month deferred sentence and requires each of them to surrender their law enforcement certifications for a period of at least five years, pay a $200 fine and court costs.

In addition, Kieran McMullen was required to resign as Sheriff of Grady County, which he did the day before entering the guilty plea.

Cacy and Barthelme had both recently resigned from the Grady County Sheriff’s Department and in conjunction with their resignations, McMullen authorized Barthelme and Cacy to receive almost $12,000 for compensatory time on claims by the two deputies that they were owed for more than 1000 hours.

The Express-Star reported that 13 other department employees had accumulated a total of only 1337 hours among them and that an analysis of the department’s timesheets, obtained from the county clerk’s office, showed that for the most recent year that Barthelme and Cacy accrued 36 hours, not the 1,033.25 hours for which they were paid.

In the wake of the plea deal and the Sheriff’s resignation, District Attorney Burns has requested state audits of the Grady County’s Sheriff’s Department and the Criminal Justice Authority.

McMullen’s plea and resignation came about three months before the end of his term in office.

McMullen received only about 25 percent of the vote in the July primary election and would have left office at the start of the new year.

Reportedly Undersheriff Larry Crabb has temporarily taken over the duties of the office from McMullen.

Crabb became Undersheriff during the summer of 2007 when then Undersheriff Irene Harvey resigned. In 2006 Harvey seriously wounded herself while she was cleaning her weapon. Harvey died of a gun shot wound at her home last month. Reportedly her death is being investigated as a possible suicide.

Congratulations to the Oklahoma Supreme Court which finally got around to disbarring former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson.

His “dishonor”, Judge Thompson achieved world-wide fame as The Masturbating Judge who a jury found guilty of indecent exposure on allegations that he sat through trials, including murder cases, merrily pumping away on his penis pump, shaving his testicles and masturbating.

In late June 2006 jurors found Thompson guilty of these criminal acts, acts which took place during both murder trials and a civil case. In the most shocking instance jurors found that Thompson had used a penis pump during the tear-filled testimony of a man whose grandchild had been murdered.

Thompson was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $40,000 for his crimes. Crimes which he never admitted or for which he has not to this day accepted responsibility.

What is so surprising is that it took so long for the Oklahoma Supreme Court to decide that disbarment was justified in Thompson’s case.

One might expect that a felony conviction on four counts of indecent exposure, four one-year prison sentences, 20 months served in state prison and registration as a sex offender are each in themselves pretty good cause for disbarment of an attorney in Oklahoma.

So why did the Oklahoma Supreme Court wait for a couple of years to act on the disbarment of The Masturbating Judge?

One can only wonder if the justices were themselves somehow distracted by things going on out of sight…

With the Tulsa State Fair set to start tomorrow some might be looking forward to seeing the “big cats” of Great Cat Adventures, a company that displays leopards, tigers and other large cats at fairs all over the country.

If so, they are in for a disappointment as Tulsa State Fair officials have canceled the $11,000 contract with the company, supposedly in part because of a flurry of complaints.

This according to Mark Andrus, interim president and CEO of Expo Square, who inherited the job when Tulsa County Commissioners tossed Rick Bjorklund under the bus back in July.

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And it was a fiasco.

On Monday morning the shiny new BOK Center hosted the Get Motivated Seminar featuring among its speakers General Colin Powell, Zig Ziglar, and Joe Montana.

In some media reports the attendance was reported at 16,000 while in others it was reported as 18,000.

In any case it was way too many if you were trying to get to work or conduct business in downtown Tulsa.

How bad was it?

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Sally Bell has handed Tulsa County Commissioner Randi Miller an old fashion butt kickin’ in the Tulsa County District 2 County Commission Republican primary.

That Bell defeated Miller is no surprise although the margin of victory for Bell was pleasantly surprising.

Sally Bell received 81.4% of the vote to Miller’s 18.6%, leaving no doubt as to how displeased the voters of Tulsa County District 2 are with the scandal tainted Miller.

That Randi Miller brought about her own defeat with scandal after scandal is without question.

That Randi Miller was defeated by a member of the family that owned and operated Bell’s Amusement Park for 50 plus years is not only justice, it is Karma.

And Karma is something that Randi Miller simply does not understand…

Congratulations Sally Bell…