When news broke that District Attorney David Prater was bringing corruption charges against three Oklahoma legislators, including one of our favorites, it seemed like perfect fodder this website. You're probably thinking, "Why the crickets, then?" Good question.
Most of the case was straight forward. State representative Mike Christian (a Republic) announced he would be making a run at the state senate seat that Debbe Leftwich (a Democrat) was vacating. Prater's case insisted that Leftwich vacated the seat for the benefit of Christian. In return for making the seat even easier for the Republican Party to take (by eliminating the incumbency barrier), she was given a high paying job in the Medical Examiner's office. Considering that the Medical Examiner's office seems to be the hot bed of corruption in the state, this all made sense.