OKLAHOMA CITY— June 25, 2026 (The Oklahoma Post)
In 2019, Oklahomans were told that the money wrung out of Purdue Pharma would be put to work fighting the addiction crisis the company helped create. Then Attorney General Mike Hunter announced a $270 million settlement with Purdue and the Sackler family, and the bulk of it, nearly $200 million, was earmarked to build a national addiction research and treatment center at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. Six years later, most of that money no longer answers to the state, the university or any elected official in Oklahoma.
The vehicle for that shift was a separation agreement that Attorney General Gentner Drummond negotiated and announced as finalized in October 2025. It rerouted money that had been tied to a public university under the 2019 consent judgment in State of Oklahoma ex rel. Attorney General v. Purdue Pharma, Case No. CJ-2017-816, in Cleveland County District Court. Under the new agreement a private foundation kept the bulk of the roughly $200 million along with the nonfinancial assets that came with it, including thousands of experimental research molecules. OSU was left with a comparatively small share.
When Hunter struck the original deal, the settlement created the National Center for Addiction Studies and Treatment, an entity meant to be housed at OSU and overseen under the terms of the consent judgment. The structure tied the money to a public university and to state leadership. The settlement placed an initial $102.5 million with the OSU Center for Health Sciences, with the Sackler family pledging another $75 million over five years and Purdue supplying $20 million in addiction treatment medication.
The arrangement was controversial from the start, though not for the reason it is now. Lawmakers were angry that Hunter had steered nearly all of the money to a single university rather than routing it through the Legislature, and they changed state law so that future settlements would flow into the state treasury. Hunter acknowledged the blowback himself, telling an audience in Washington that “rose petals were not strewn in my path.”
What changed in 2025 was who controls the money. The split surfaced publicly at a September 2025 meeting of the OSU/A&M Board of Regents in Langston, where regents authorized OSU President Jim Hess to negotiate final terms with the foundation. By October, Drummond’s office announced that the separation was complete. The foundation, which kept the National Center for Wellness and Recovery name that had belonged to OSU, is led by Don Kyle, the former lead pain researcher at Purdue Pharma whom OSU had hired to run the center after the settlement.
Drummond framed the separation as a way to head off litigation between the foundation and the university. His office said the agreement would let the OSU Center for Health Sciences focus on addiction and pain management through education and clinical care without the distraction of the foundation’s divergent mission and objectives. When reporters asked about the underlying disagreement, Drummond declined to comment. The public, including Governor Kevin Stitt have questions.
DRUMMOND NEEDS TO ACT
Attorney General Gentner Drummond can end the questions surrounding the Purdue settlement money in a single afternoon. He has not. The fastest way to answer what happened to roughly $180 million that Oklahomans were told would fund a state addiction center is for the state’s chief legal officer to put the documents on the table. He should do it now.
Acting means something specific. It means releasing the full separation agreement he negotiated, including the exact figures, the amount that went to OSU and the amount the private foundation kept, and any conditions placed on the money. It means producing the correspondence with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the document, if one exists, showing that the federal Medicaid claim on this settlement was resolved before the money left state connected control. It means explaining, in plain terms, the legal authority under which the attorney general moved public origin settlement funds into a private foundation without legislative appropriation, in a state whose Legislature changed the law in 2019 precisely to keep settlement money under public control. And it means disclosing whether he or anyone in his office has any relationship with the foundation or its principals beyond the deal itself.
None of that requires a lawsuit, a subpoena or an election. It requires a decision. Every one of those records is a public record. The attorney general holds them or can obtain them, and he can release them today.
There is urgency to this that Drummond cannot wave away. He is not only the state’s top lawyer. He is a candidate for governor, with a runoff on August 25, asking Oklahomans to trust him with the highest office in the state. A man seeking that trust does not get to sit on the paperwork that would show whether $180 million in opioid money was handled properly on his watch.
Drummond is entitled to the presumption that he acted lawfully and in the public interest. That presumption is not a shield to hide behind. It is a claim he can prove, and the only way to prove it is to produce the records. Until he does, the questions are not going away, and they should not.
Key Findings
Opioid foundation (NCAST / NCWR)
The National Center for Addiction Studies and Treatment Foundation (EIN 83-4142663), which also operates as the National Center for Wellness and Recovery (NCWR), was created from the March 2019 Purdue Pharma settlement. Per its IRS Form 990 filings (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer), it reported net assets of about $201 million at year-end 2024 and is registered in Nichols Hills, OK (FY2024 return filed March 24, 2026). ProPublica
Board members / officers documented in IRS 990 filings (FY2019–FY2024) :
- Kayse M. Shrum, DO — Chairman; former OSU/OSU-CHS president. Listed with related-organization (OSU) compensation of ~$670,000 (2024). ProPublica
- Johnny Stephens — Director; OSU-CHS president. Related-org compensation ~$605,000 (2024). ProPublica
- James (Jim) Hess — listed as Interim CEO in the FY2020 and FY2021 returns (~$374,000 related compensation in 2021); later OSU interim president, then 20th OSU president.
- Bob Howard — Director; Oklahoma City auto dealer (identified as Robert E. Howard II of the Bob Howard Auto Group).
- Tucker Link — Director and board president/chairman; Tulsa financier.
- Cary Baetz — Director.
- Bill John Baker — Director; former Cherokee Nation Principal Chief.
- Charles Grim (also rendered “Grimm” in some filings) — Director.
- Courtney Knoblock — Director.
- Jay Cunningham — Director.
- Kelly Fry — Director (listed FY2020–FY2021).
- Don Kyle, Ph.D. — CEO; former Purdue Pharma VP of Discovery Research / lead pain researcher.
Executives (NCWR side):
- Don Kyle — CEO, NCWR.
- Ann Kraft, MBA, MS — COO / head of strategic partnerships; formerly VP and global head of business development for rare disease and neuroscience at Ipsen Bioscience; previously at Purdue. (Note a name-collision caution: a different “Ann Kraft” retired from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2026 — not the NCWR officer.) Hopeforaddiction
- Craig Werner — Senior Director, Neuroscience.
- Kelly Dunn, MD — Executive Director of Clinical Treatment (per NCWR/OSU materials).
2025 separation negotiation chain :
- Gentner Drummond — AG; self-described “mediator between OSU and NCAST”; finalized the separation agreement Sept. 26, 2025 (announced Oct. 3, 2025). Tulsa WorldOklahoma.gov
- Jim Hess — OSU president authorized by the OSU/A&M regents (at a meeting in Langston) to negotiate final terms; the foundation reportedly amended its bylaws in March 2025 to remove Hess after Shrum’s departure. Tulsa World
- Kayse Shrum — former OSU president who resigned Feb. 3, 2025 (made public Feb. 5) amid an internal audit; had hired Don Kyle.
- Johnny Stephens — OSU-CHS president, quoted in the October 2025 AG announcement.
- Tucker Link — NCAST board chairman, quoted approvingly in Drummond’s press release (“This agreement marks a significant advancement and opportunity for public health in Oklahoma”). Tulsa World
- OSU/A&M regents named in coverage: Chairman Jimmy Harrel, Jennifer Callahan (Governance Review Task Force), and Blayne Arthur (Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture / regent).
The audit that precipitated Shrum’s resignation was released by the OSU/A&M Board of Regents on March 5, 2025; it found $41 million in legislative appropriations were not properly restricted and in some cases co-mingled, including $11.5 million in improper transfers to the OSU Innovation Foundation, and found OSU had underreported appropriations to its own governing board by $55.5 million. (Innovation Foundation president Elizabeth Pollard also resigned.)
A FEDERAL QUESTION HANGS OVER THE MONEY
There is also a federal dimension to this money that has never been resolved in public, and it raises questions that go beyond state oversight. When Hunter built Oklahoma’s damages case against Purdue, his team relied on years of state Medicaid claims data to calculate the harm. That detail carries weight under federal law. On June 12, 2019, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent Oklahoma a letter asserting that because Medicaid data drove the damages figure, the United States was entitled to a share of the Purdue money. CMS pointed to Section 1903(d)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 1396b, which provides that the federal government is owed the pro rata share to which it is equitably entitled of net recoveries that include a Medicaid component. Documents the state sent to CMS estimated the federal share at roughly $60 million.
Under that statute, when a state recovers money tied to Medicaid, it is expected to return the federal portion, and CMS can withhold the amount from the state’s ongoing Medicaid payments if it does not. A CMS guidance letter from 2008 set out the same expectation, that a state recovering an overpayment must account for both the state and federal shares.
By 2021, OSU said the Attorney General’s office had told it that CMS was no longer pursuing the funds. The state has never made public any document showing how, or whether, that federal claim was formally resolved, settled or waived.
That is where the 2025 separation raises a federal law question Oklahomans are entitled to have answered. These dollars carried a potential federal obligation. The agreement Drummond negotiated moved the bulk of them out of state affiliated control and into a private foundation. If any federal Medicaid share was ever owed, or could be revived, the public record does not show that it was satisfied before the money left the reach of the state and its public university. Placing funds that may carry a federal recoupment obligation beyond the state’s easy recovery raises the question of whether the transfer was consistent with the state’s duties under 42 U.S.C. 1396b, and whether the federal government signed off before it happened.
No federal authority has publicly accused Drummond of breaking the law in connection with the separation, and legal analysts note that the federal recoupment theory is itself contested, because opioid damages were calculated to cover more than Medicaid costs alone. But contested is not the same as resolved. The documents that would settle the matter, the CMS correspondence, the state’s response and any release of the federal claim, are public records, and they have not been produced.
So the public record now shows this. Money that Oklahomans were told would fund a state addiction center, anchored at a public university and connected to state leadership, is largely held by a private foundation run by a former Purdue executive, outside the reach of OSU and any elected body in Oklahoma, and possibly still entangled with an unresolved federal claim. The official who moved it there is the state’s chief legal officer.
The questions that follow are not rhetorical. Oklahomans are entitled to know the exact amount the foundation kept and the amount OSU retained. They are entitled to know what oversight, if any, now governs how a private foundation spends settlement money meant to address the opioid crisis. They are entitled to know whether the federal Medicaid claim was ever truly closed, and on what terms. And they are entitled to know why the state’s top lawyer concluded that the better course was to hand the bulk of an opioid settlement to a private entity led by people who once worked for the company that helped cause the crisis.
THE PEOPLE AROUND THE MONEY, AND AROUND DRUMMOND
The foundation now holding the bulk of Oklahoma’s Purdue settlement is the National Center for Addiction Studies and Treatment Foundation, which also operates as the National Center for Wellness and Recovery, EIN 83-4142663. Its IRS filings reported net assets of roughly $201 million at the end of 2024. Its chief executive is Don Kyle, the former lead pain researcher at Purdue Pharma. Its chief operating officer is Ann Kraft, a longtime pharmaceutical executive who previously worked at Ipsen Bioscience and Purdue. Over the life of the foundation, its IRS-listed directors and officers have included former OSU president Kayse Shrum as chair, OSU-CHS president Johnny Stephens, Jim Hess during a period as interim chief executive, Tulsa financier and board president Tucker Link, Oklahoma City auto dealer Bob Howard, former Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker, Cary Baetz, Charles Grim, Courtney Knoblock, Jay Cunningham and Kelly Fry.
The separation that moved the money was handled by a small group. Attorney General Gentner Drummond described himself as the mediator between OSU and the foundation and finalized the agreement in late September 2025, announcing it in October. OSU President Jim Hess was authorized by the OSU/A&M Board of Regents, at a meeting in Langston, to negotiate the final terms. The deal followed the February 2025 resignation of OSU President Kayse Shrum, who had hired Kyle, and a regents audit. Tulsa World reported the foundation amended its bylaws in March 2025 to remove Hess. Tucker Link was quoted approvingly in Drummond’s announcement. The public wants to see these “mediations”.
The original 2019 settlement had its own cast. Then Attorney General Mike Hunter announced the $270 million Purdue deal and structured nearly $200 million of it into the OSU foundation rather than the treasury. The state’s outside lawyers were Brad Coffee and the firms that split the contingency fee, Nix Patterson, led by Brad Beckworth, Whitten Burrage, led by retired federal judge Michael Burrage and Reggie Whitten, and Glenn Coffee and Associates, led by former Senate leader Glenn Coffee.
His political apparatus is run by campaign chairman Matt Parker and the consultancy CAMP Political, founded by Fount Holland. He worked early in his career as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator David Boren and as an assistant district attorney in Pawnee and Osage counties. He won the office in 2022 by defeating incumbent John O’Connor in the Republican primary, and in the 2026 governor’s race he advanced to an August 25 runoff against Mike Mazzei after President Donald Trump schooled him.
His tenure as attorney general has produced named connections of its own. In the Richard Glossip case he confessed constitutional error, supported Glossip at the U.S. Supreme Court, then announced in 2025 that he would retry him. He dismissed a charge against Oklahoma City police Sergeant Joseph Gibson that District Attorney Vicki Behenna had filed in the injury and later death of 71 year old Lich Vu. He took over and prosecuted the marijuana straw owner cases against attorneys Matt Stacy and Logan Jones. And in 2019, before taking office, the federal government sued Drummond, his ranch entities and Regier Flying Service over herbicide that killed trees on Army Corps of Engineers land near Skiatook and Birch lakes; Regier paid $240,000 and the case against the Drummond entities was dismissed.
WHAT HAPPENED TO PURDUE
The company at the center of all of this no longer exists. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in September 2019, months after settling with Oklahoma, as it faced thousands of opioid lawsuits nationwide. A 2021 reorganization plan would have given the Sackler family, which owned Purdue, lifetime immunity from opioid lawsuits even though the family members had not personally filed for bankruptcy. Several states and the U.S. Trustee, an arm of the Justice Department, objected and appealed.
In June 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected that plan in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, holding that the bankruptcy code did not allow the Sacklers to receive those nonconsensual releases. That ruling sent the parties back to negotiate.
The replacement deal is far larger. Led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, 55 attorneys general and roughly 9,300 local governments agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement under which the Sacklers will pay up to $7 billion over 15 years and give up ownership of the company. Unlike the rejected plan, the new agreement lets people who do not opt in still sue the Sackler family. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane confirmed the plan on November 18, 2025, calling it imperfect but equitable.
On May 1, 2026, Purdue Pharma dissolved. Its manufacturing operations transferred to a new company, Knoa Pharma LLC, run by a board with no connection to Purdue and barred from marketing opioids, with an independent monitor. The Sacklers paid more than $1.5 billion and Purdue about $900 million in the first round, with a pool of roughly $850 million set aside for individual victims.
The contrast with Oklahoma is the point worth holding onto. As the rest of the country was pulling the Sackler money into court supervised trusts with monitors, opt out rights for victims and a dissolved company, Oklahoma’s slice of the original Purdue money was moving in the opposite direction, out of a public university and a state connected board and into a private foundation, through an agreement whose terms have not been released.
WHERE THE LAW COULD BE IMPLICATED, AND FOR WHOM
The one existing finding involves Oklahoma State University. In March 2025, an audit released by the OSU/A&M Board of Regents concluded that fiscal decisions had violated state laws, including the improper handling of roughly $41 million in legislative appropriations and about $11.5 million in improper transfers to the OSU Innovation Foundation, and that the university had underreported appropriations to its own governing board by $55.5 million. President Kayse Shrum resigned days before the audit became public, and Innovation Foundation president Elizabeth Pollard also resigned. These are audit findings, not criminal charges, and no one has been charged. This is the problem.
The clearest open question is federal, and it touches the State of Oklahoma and the attorneys general who handled this money, Mike Hunter who structured it and Gentner Drummond who moved it. Because the state used Medicaid claims data to calculate its opioid damages, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services asserted in 2019 that the United States was owed a share of the Purdue money under Section 1903 of the Social Security Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 1396b. The estimated federal share was about $60 million, and under that statute the federal government can withhold the amount from the state’s ongoing Medicaid payments. By 2021 the attorney general’s office told OSU that CMS was no longer pursuing the funds, but no document showing how that federal claim was resolved has been made public. The open question is whether any federal obligation remained, or could be revived, when Drummond moved the bulk of the money beyond the reach of the state and its public university, and whether the federal government signed off first. No federal authority has yet to publicly alleged a violation, and the recoupment…..the opioid damages were calculated to cover more than Medicaid costs.
A second open question is one of state authority, and it touches the attorney general and the foundation board. After Hunter directed the original Purdue money around the appropriations process in 2019, the Legislature changed the law so that future settlement proceeds would flow through the state treasury. Against that history, the public is entitled to ask under what authority the state’s chief legal officer mediated the transfer of roughly $180 million of public origin settlement money out of state connected control and into a private foundation, without legislative appropriation or any public accounting of the terms. That is a question about the limits of the office, limits that were exceeded.
A third question is one of nonprofit and tax law, and it touches the foundation and its officers. A private foundation that holds public origin money and is led in part by former employees of the company that paid it invites scrutiny under the federal rules against private benefit and self dealing. Whether any such transaction occurred is a question the foundation’s full IRS Form 990 and the unreleased separation agreement would answer. Nothing in the public record establishes that one did.
THE GOVERNOR GOES PUBLIC
The questions in this report are no longer being asked only in private. On the day of publication, Governor Kevin Stitt posted the core of these allegations to his verified Facebook page, under a banner reading “$180 MILLION IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS GONE AND OKLAHOMANS DESERVE ANSWERS.” Within six hours the post had drawn more than 1,300 reactions, 557 comments and nearly 400 shares.
In the post, Stitt lays out the same chain of events at the center of this story. He writes that the 2019 Purdue settlement was sold to Oklahomans as an addiction research and treatment effort housed at OSU, governed by a board chaired by the OSU president with appointees named by the governor, the speaker and the president pro tempore. He writes that last year OSU President Jim Hess and the appointees of elected leaders were removed from the board, that OSU was sent a $20 million check and told it was in its best interest to leave the rest behind, and that a foundation he describes as made up of former Purdue employees kept the remaining $180 million with no state oversight. He names the official he holds responsible. “Who brokered this sweetheart deal to remove these funds from State oversight?” Stitt writes. “Attorney General Gentner Drummond.”
The records confirm that Drummond mediated the 2025 separation, he will not prosecute, he will not allow for the release of the communications of those possibly illegal settlements, and that the foundation retained most of the roughly $200 million along with the Purdue research assets, that OSU received a $20 million reimbursement, and that the foundation is led by Don Kyle, Purdue’s former lead pain researcher.
The adjudicated finding of illegality belongs to the OSU audit and concerns university officials. Everything touching the attorney general remains a question, and a fair one, because the documents that would answer it, the communications between the AG and others, the separation agreement, the CMS correspondence and the foundation’s complete filings, have not been produced. The public is owed the records that would prove it.
The documents that answer those questions are public. Oklahomans deserve answers, and the paperwork that holds them already carries their names.
Writing By: Robbie Robertson | Editing by Robbie Robertson
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is based on court documents, audio recordings, and investigative reporting.
Sources
Primary public records
2019 Purdue consent judgment and the NCAST board structure, State of Oklahoma ex rel. Attorney General v. Purdue Pharma, Case No. CJ-2017-816, District Court of Cleveland County, on OSCN
https://www.oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInformation.aspx?db=cleveland&number=CJ-2017-816
Oklahoma Attorney General Opioid Abatement Board settlement document library, where the state posts the consent judgments
https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/oag/documents/resources/meetings/opioid-abatement-board/opioid-settlements
Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General, for the 2025 separation agreement and the announcement, and for Open Records requests under Title 51, Section 24A
https://oag.ok.gov
OSU/A&M Board of Regents agendas and minutes, including the September 2025 Langston meeting that authorized President Jim Hess to negotiate the separation
https://regents.okstate.edu
IRS Form 990 filings for the foundation that retained the funds, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits
IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos
Oklahoma Secretary of State business entity search, for the foundation registration, officers and registered agent
https://www.sos.ok.gov/corp/corpInquiryFind.aspx
Oklahoma Legislature, for the 2019 law change routing future settlements through the state treasury
https://www.oklegislature.gov
Federal law and the CMS claim
The June 12, 2019 CMS letter seeking a federal share of the Purdue settlement, published with coverage by NonDoc
https://nondoc.com/2019/06/27/read-cms-letter-seeking-oklahoma-opioid-settlement-money/
StateImpact Oklahoma, on the federal clawback claim and the recoupment mechanism
https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2019/07/04/feds-may-claw-back-millions-from-oklahomas-opioid-settlement/
StateImpact Oklahoma, follow on where the settlement money went and the federal share estimate
https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2020/01/15/heres-what-happened-to-829-million-oklahoma-was-awarded-to-treat-opioid-addiction/
The Frontier, reporting that by 2021 the AG’s office told OSU that CMS was no longer pursuing the funds
https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/most-of-the-money-oklahoma-secured-from-opioid-companies-has-gone-unspent/
Congressional Research Service, on federal authority over opioid settlement spending and the Section 1903(d)(3)(A) recoupment theory
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11270
Contemporaneous reporting on the 2025 separation
Tulsa World, the foundation holding opioid funds splits from OSU, September 2025
https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_306e3fd0-f7a0-4f52-a33f-efefa901622c.html
Tulsa World, OSU and foundation separation finalized, Drummond announcement, October 2025
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/article_f22a6de8-63de-41ff-a138-9ba72d781217.html
Original 2019 settlement terms
The Frontier, the $270 million Purdue and Sackler settlement
https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/oklahoma-reaches-270-settlement-with-purdue-and-sacklers-in-lawsuit/
Oklahoma State University, the nearly $200 million endowment announcement
https://news.okstate.edu/articles/communications/2019/200_million_to_establish_endowment_for_osu_center_for_wellness_and_recovery.html
Foundation IRS filings and asset totals, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, EIN 83-4142663
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/834142663
Separation finalized and board principals, Tulsa World, October 2025
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/article_f22a6de8-63de-41ff-a138-9ba72d781217.html
Separation surfaces and bylaws change, Tulsa World, September 2025
https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_306e3fd0-f7a0-4f52-a33f-efefa901622c.html
OSU audit finding violations of state law, NonDoc, March 2025
https://nondoc.com/2025/03/05/osu-audit-finds-fiscal-decisions-violated-state-laws/
OSU audit coverage, KGOU, March 2025
https://www.kgou.org/education/2025-03-06/oklahoma-state-university-leaders-pledge-transparency-after-scathing-audit-finds-misappropriation
Original 2019 Purdue settlement, The Frontier
https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/oklahoma-reaches-270-settlement-with-purdue-and-sacklers-in-lawsuit/
CMS federal Medicaid share letter, NonDoc, 2019
https://nondoc.com/2019/06/27/read-cms-letter-seeking-oklahoma-opioid-settlement-money/
Purdue $7.4 billion plan approved, New York Attorney General, November 2025
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-secures-approval-purdue-bankruptcy-plan
Purdue plan confirmation, PBS NewsHour, November 2025
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judge-formally-approves-opioid-settlement-for-purdue-pharma-and-sackler-family-members-who-own-the-company
Purdue dissolution and Knoa Pharma, Connecticut Attorney General, May 2026
https://portal.ct.gov/ag/press-releases/2026-press-releases/attorney-general-tong-announces-purdue-pharma-to-dissolve-today
Gibson dismissal and Lich Vu, NonDoc, October 2025
https://nondoc.com/2025/10/06/hastened-his-death-lich-vu-dies-nearly-a-year-after-okcpd-encounter-left-him-seriously-injured/
Federal herbicide lawsuit, Tulsa World
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/federal-government-sues-attorney-rancher-gentner-drummond-over-destruction-of/article_829c55de-48f7-5330-addb-7bb91b3d3ade.html
Drummond business holdings and financial disclosure, The Frontier
https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/sorting-fact-from-fiction-in-oklahomas-republican-governor-debate/
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