Five people have been indicted for their alleged involvement in a scheme where trucking agents bribed Oklahoma Tax Commission employees to get cheaper tags.
According to published reports, the indictments were issued by a state grand jury investigating the scheme, and are only the beginning. The grand jury will go back to work Aug. 6.
In June, former Tax Commission auditor Billy Bruce Baber was the first person indicted in the probe, charged with making a death threat against a former trucking agent who said he would tell officials about the scheme. Ronnie Cantwell Jr. testified that a trucking company had paid his firm $176,000 for its tags, but that Baber had reworked estimated mileage on the bill so that only $76,000 went to the state. The proceeds, he testified, were divided among Cantwell, Baber, a former tax commission auditor and another trucking agent.
According to published reports, the indictments were issued by a state grand jury investigating the scheme, and are only the beginning. The grand jury will go back to work Aug. 6.
In June, former Tax Commission auditor Billy Bruce Baber was the first person indicted in the probe, charged with making a death threat against a former trucking agent who said he would tell officials about the scheme. Ronnie Cantwell Jr. testified that a trucking company had paid his firm $176,000 for its tags, but that Baber had reworked estimated mileage on the bill so that only $76,000 went to the state. The proceeds, he testified, were divided among Cantwell, Baber, a former tax commission auditor and another trucking agent.
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