March 12, 2016
The court ruled in favor of prosecutors regarding a charge of refusal to perform official duty, which accuses Glanz of ignoring lawful requests to turn over a 2009 internal investigation involving friend and former Reserve Deputy Robert Bates....
The last anyone has heard from Robert Bates was August last year when he tried to intimidate prosecutors and the US Attorney. Evidently, Mr. Bates wants company in prison along side the prosecutor and/or the US Attorney if it is learned he can leverage corruption in legal proceedings.
Mr. Bates is a very powerful man. He knows how to get things done, including murdering a man he decided was worthy of dying.
April 29, 2015
By AP
By Corey Jones
A motion to dismiss (click here) one of two criminal misdemeanors lodged by grand jurors against former Sheriff Stanley Glanz was denied Friday afternoon in a decision that favors open records and transparency.
The last anyone has heard from Robert Bates was August last year when he tried to intimidate prosecutors and the US Attorney. Evidently, Mr. Bates wants company in prison along side the prosecutor and/or the US Attorney if it is learned he can leverage corruption in legal proceedings.
Mr. Bates is a very powerful man. He knows how to get things done, including murdering a man he decided was worthy of dying.
April 29, 2015
By AP
Oklahoma City — Embroiled in a legal battle (click here) over the sale of his insurance company, Robert Bates met a former colleague at a restaurant to discuss the court case over drinks.
But Bates, the volunteer Tulsa County deputy now facing a manslaughter charge for shooting an unarmed suspect, did not know the 2012 conversation was being secretly recorded by his companion, Bryan Berman, the company’s new president.
During the exchange, Bates boasted of his connections in the sheriff’s department and the U.S. attorney’s office, and suggested he could make life miserable for the plaintiffs.
The audio recording, obtained by The Associated Press from the court file of a federal case that was later dismissed, reveals the corporate executive as a man who bragged about using his position in the Sheriff’s Office to help powerful friends and whose work as a reserve deputy added a spark to his life....
The audio recording, obtained by The Associated Press from the court file of a federal case that was later dismissed, reveals the corporate executive as a man who bragged about using his position in the Sheriff’s Office to help powerful friends and whose work as a reserve deputy added a spark to his life....
