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Phil Bacharach, Communications Director
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Leslie Berger, Press Secretary
Office: 405-522-1863
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Press Releases and Articles

May 15, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 15, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond expressed his gratitude to Gov. Kevin Stitt today for signing into law House Bill 3668, which enhances Medicaid fraud protections and helps protect elderly and vulnerable adults. 

The measure increases the statute of limitations for the sexual abuse of vulnerable adults to 12 years, making it consistent with all other categories of sexual abuse. The previous amount of time to report the crime had been only three years. 

May 14, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 14, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a lawsuit against major diabetic drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) for an unfair and deceptive pricing scheme that has cost Americans billions of dollars. 

Alleging violations of the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act (OCPA), Drummond said manufacturers have significantly raised the prices of their diabetes drugs in lockstep during the last 15 years despite the fact that the costs of producing the critical drugs have diminished.

May 13, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 13, 2024) – In two separate lawsuits, Attorney General Gentner Drummond is pushing back against efforts by the Biden Administration and the State of California to impose electric-vehicle mandates nationwide on truck owners and operators.

May 10, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 10, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond today praised a decision by the U.S. District Court in Arizona to deny Avid Telecom’s multiple attempts to dismiss and delay a bipartisan lawsuit against Avid Telecom, its owner and its vice president. Drummond and 48 other attorneys general sued the company in May 2023 for initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people across the nation.

May 9, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 9, 2024) – Expressing extreme disappointment with state Treasurer Todd Russ and the treasurer’s hand-picked legal counsel, Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced today he is firing the outside attorney and removing Russ from any decision-making authority in the lawsuit defending Oklahoma’s anti-ESG (environmental, social and governance) law.

May 9, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 9, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a 14-state coalition in filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit a petition for review against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

May 9, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 9, 2024) – The Multi-County Grand Jury today indicted Garfield County Associate District Judge Brian Lovell on charges related to a February 2023 drive-by shooting near the town of Bison.

The indictment alleges that on Feb. 12, 2023, Lovell fired a gun at the residence of his brother-in-law in Bison, Oklahoma. Two days after the shooting, Lovell reported that a firearm was stolen from his vehicle.

May 7, 2024

WASHINGTON DC (May 7, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond told a U.S. House subcommittee this morning how a revised rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will have devastating consequences for Oklahoma and other states. Drummond had been invited by the House Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials to deliver testimony for a hearing titled “EPA’s RMP Rule: Failures to Protect the American People and American Manufacturing.” The subcommittee is part of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

May 6, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 6, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Biden Administration’s new change to Title IX rules that radically rewrites the longtime federal protections by adding gender identity.

Filed in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Oklahoma, the suit asserts that the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) under Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has created an unconstitutional reworking of Title IX protections.

May 2, 2024

OKLAHOMA CITY (May 2, 2024) – Attorney General Drummond is pushing back against a would-be rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that would prevent law-abiding Americans from privately selling firearms without becoming federally licensed as a firearms dealer. Drummond is part of a 21-state lawsuit challenging the proposal in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

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