Here's a list of #Oklahoma politicians who have taken money from EPIC charter schools' co-founders David Chaney and Ben Harris and former CFO Josh Brock, all of whom were arrested today on RICO and other criminal complaints. 🧵
These records only go back to 2016, but you can see that the founders definitely spread their wealth around to numerous #Oklahoma politicians, including this year's two major gubernatorial candidates before they were opponents - Stitt and Hofmeister, as well as former AG Hunter
Page 1 of Chaney's donations. Ignore the first two entries, the David Chaney from Perkins. That's a different guy.
Page 2 of Chaney's donations.
Page 3 of Chaney's donations
Page 1 of Ben Harris's donations
Page 2 of Ben Harris's donations
Page 3 of Ben Harris's donations
Page 4 of Ben Harris's donations
Page 5 of Ben Harris's donations
Page 6 of Ben Harris's donations
And here's the contributions from former CFO Josh Brock.
As you can see, that's a lot of money going to powerful politicians, and much of it likely originated from taxpayer school funds before going into EPIC's private management company and distributed to the owners, who it appears then showered it upon your elected officials.
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