The story of a rushed federal indictment in the Western District of Oklahoma that collapsed under scrutiny following AUSA DH Dilbeck’s disqualification and major ethical + procedural issues - but not before costing me nearly everything

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1v1F_… This podcast doesn’t name names, unflinchingly explain every detail of what I did or didn’t do that the DOJ called a crime, or expose a web of incentives that, on its appearance, offers a simple yet sinister explanation for everything that unfolded upon me It does explain what it felt like (spoiler alert….awful) to be on the receiving end of (now dismissed) United States of America vs. Ryan Bloom Thank you @AlexLittleTN and @Amy_K_Nelson

1 year ago today, a federal judge in OKC disqualified federal prosecutor DH Dilbeck from a case Dilbeck indicted, twice. Why take this nearly unprecedented action? It was the massive pay raises Dilbeck’s wife Mackenzie was receiving regularly from @OU_President, including a $100k a year bump to $310k WHILE her husband was pursuing this fed case benefiting @OU_President ‘s bank, Valliance, a bank he started with Roy Oliver and still owns and directs to this day. A bank that filed a fraud insurance claim and FBI report simultaneously that was pending while the case was rushed through the grand jury - a grand jury given objectively binary false testimony Two days prior to his forced recusal, DH Dilbeck represented to the judge in court he did not know another bank board member, @blairdhumphreys, before admitting they’d been neighbors New prosecutors without conflict examined the totality of the evidence - something DH Dilbeck did not do prior to rush indictment with no target letter and aggressive driveway surprise arrest - and then moved to dismiss the case Yet, DH Dilbeck was never apparently subjected to DOJ ethics review, Oklahoma Bar, and he is *still* prosecuting cases to this day with no apparent repercussions for indicting a case AFTER being made aware of his conflict -OR- for leaving a false impression (to borrow the Judge’s words) upon the Court Will anti-corruption @coffeyforok weigh in? Will @wsuares dig in? Will @SenatorLankford inquire? Can @Okla_OAG form a grand jury to investigate? Can @TheLostOgle find out if the Harroz connection is what caused the case to form in the first place?

Now imagine someone tries to make this construction dispute into something criminal on the part of the plumber

DOJ needs a new policy for press releases on indictments. Unless there are too many victims to keep notified, too many public inquiries to address, or a high likelihood of discovering additional victims, press releases on innocent people should be banned. Your headline can wait

I shared my story of how the Western District of Oklahoma DOJ rushed to indict but then the case collapsed into a dismissal of all charges over conflicts of interest between AUSA DH Dilbeck and @OU_President on @ian_bick and a single reel exceeded a million views over the weekend Why then is the story so uninteresting that @readfrontier and @briOKC and @DGoforth918 , a publication with “a mission to produce fearless, independent journalism with impact. We hold those in power accountable, give a voice to the powerless and tell stories that matter to Oklahomans” Won’t even engage with the possibility of covering the story?

This x 100

Renewing my call for @koconews @readfrontier @wsuares @NEWS9 @SenatorLankford @stephaniebice @Okla_OAG @GovStitt to look into how a federal judge in Oklahoma City disqualified a prosecutor for his conflict of interest which led to the case collapsing - but not before it cost an Oklahoma City man and his family *everything* for a case that never should have been brought