Tag: Attorney General

Sierra Leone telephone scam alert

May 16, 2019 Tulsa Beacon

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter issued a consumer alert early in May after a rash of scam phone calls from Sierra Leone have swamped Oklahomans with Tulsa area codes. Local authorities believe the calls are part of a scam known as a wangiri scam, or one ring phone scam, where an individual’s phone will only…

The Census should ask about citizenship

May 2, 2019 Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter Tulsa Beacon

Much noise has been made about reinstating a citizenship question on the 2020 census, the subject of the April 23 Supreme Court arguments. The objections to the citizenship question revolve around unjustified hysteria and the unfortunate, but growing, notion that citizenship doesn’t matter. As attorney general of Oklahoma, I filed an amicus curiae brief joined…