Move over, FBI, Oklahoma House, and the U.S. Department of Education! There’s a new group investigating Ryan Walters!
Earlier today, Nolan Clay with The Oklahoman – the state’s leading reporter on the Grand Jury leak beat – reported that “the state's multicounty grand jury” is taking a closer look at Ryan’s involvement with the Bridge the Gap/ClassWallet grift from a few years ago.
Here are the basic details:
The state's multicounty grand jury is investigating the misspending of pandemic relief funds and state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, according to multiple sources.
Grand jurors heard testimony last week about Walters and issues with GEER Fund programs in Oklahoma, sources said. No indictments have been issued yet. Their next session is scheduled for Oct. 8-10.
There have been so many Ryan Walters scandals over the past few years that it’s hard to keep them straight, so here’s a quick refresher on the GEER fund controversy...
When Ryan was the podunk director of a non-profit school privatization group called “Every Kid Counts OK,” Governor Stitt put him in charge of running “Bridge the Gap” – a state program that used federal pandemic GEER funds to provide “5,000 low-income Oklahoma families with $1,500 grants to purchase materials for students.”