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Restaurateur Brent Swadley’s light sentence for fraud isn’t justice for Oklahoma taxpayers

States Newsroom · November 2, 2026

At this point, I shouldn’t have been surprised that another rich, politically connected Oklahoma man got off with the equivalent of a slap on the wrist for a felony conviction. That seems to be the way of the Oklahoma court system world. Judges and prosecutors throw the book at poorer defendants, sending them to…

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Restaurateur Brent Swadley’s light sentence for fraud isn’t justice for Oklahoma taxpayers

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