{"id":29027,"date":"2017-12-19T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=29027"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:50:16","slug":"feds-now-investigating-oklahoma-state-department-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2017\/12\/19\/feds-now-investigating-oklahoma-state-department-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Now Investigating Oklahoma State Department of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29028\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Interim Health Commissioner Preston Doerflinger.\" href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2017\/12\/20160201-SOTS149_WEB.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29028\" alt=\"Interim Health Commissioner Preston Doerflinger.\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2017\/12\/20160201-SOTS149_WEB.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2017\/12\/20160201-SOTS149_WEB.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2017\/12\/20160201-SOTS149_WEB-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2017\/12\/20160201-SOTS149_WEB-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2017\/12\/20160201-SOTS149_WEB-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Health Commissioner Preston Doerflinger.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The Oklahoma Attorney General\u2019s office on Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oag.ok.gov\/attorney-general-hunter-announces-fbi-and-us-department-of-health-and-human-services-to-investigate-oklahoma-health-department\">said<\/a> a probe into alleged mismanagement of roughly $30 million from the Oklahoma State Department of Health has expanded to include investigators from the FBI and the\u00a0 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p><strong>You should know:\u00a0<\/strong>This confirms testimony Interim Health Commissioner Preston Doerflinger gave to a House investigative committee that at least some of the money under scrutiny was in accounts\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oag.ok.gov\/attorney-general-hunter-announces-fbi-and-us-department-of-health-and-human-services-to-investigate-oklahoma-health-department\">restricted to federal programs<\/a> administered by the state agency. Authorities are trying to unravel the financial mess, which almost forced the agency to miss its payroll, required a stop-gap emergency cash infusion from lawmakers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjAvqLj2pbYAhXJwVQKHYLZC_YQFgguMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsok.com%2Foklahoma-state-health-department-announces-first-layoffs-more-to-come%2Farticle%2F5575321&usg=AOvVaw3JMqG914JD2QJcB97_DKc4\">led to layoffs<\/a>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-grand-jury-investigating-heath-department\/article\/5574122\">grand jury investigation<\/a> could also mean criminal charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Attorney General\u2019s office on Tuesday said a probe into alleged mismanagement of roughly $30 million from the Oklahoma State Department of Health has expanded to include investigators from the FBI and the\u00a0 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":29028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[745,245,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29027"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29037,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29027\/revisions\/29037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}