Cool trick. Let's say you are an attorney for your day job and you preside over the Oklahoma State Senate as your moonlighting job. Companies want favors, so you tell them to hire you as their attorney and they will get favorable treatment on legislation.
No wonder state legislators do so well on $38,400 a year (plus $150/day per diem).
Former Senator Mike Morgan from Stillwater gets the crooked doosh of the week award.
"Grand jurors said Morgan was paid $4,166 a month by a company that wanted to build a solid waste landfill in northern Oklahoma. He was paid a total of $141,664 over three years, according to the indictment. Skeith was the company's lobbyist, and Stringer was the company's lead Oklahoma attorney.
Grand jurors said Morgan was paid $5,000 a month by a company that wanted to build a power plant in Oklahoma. “Between Dec. 31, 2004, and Dec. 31, 2008, these checks totaled $250,000,” according to the indictment. Skeith was a lobbyist for that company, too.
Grand jurors said Morgan was paid $1,000 a month by a company that wanted to limit the Health Department's regulation of assisted-living centers. Grand jurors said Morgan collected a total of $12,000 in bribes from that company from July 2006 through July 2007.
Grand jurors said Morgan told the company owner in a May 2006 meeting at the Capitol that if the company “wanted his assistance in dealing with the Oklahoma Department of Health, it would have to hire him as a lawyer and pay him a retainer of $1,000 per month.”
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http://newsok.com/former-oklahoma-senate-leader-indicted-on-federal-bribery-extortion-mail-fraud-counts/article/3554103#ixzz1ICF5thoS