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OKLAHOMA CITY – RALPH ALLEN LEE SHORTEY has been ordered to pay $125,850.00 to the victim he was convicted of obtaining for commercial sex, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Shortey pleaded guilty on November 30, 2017, to one count of child sex trafficking. In particular, he admitted he solicited a minor identified as "John Doe" to engage in a commercial sex act on March 8 and 9, 2017. Shortey was serving as an Oklahoma State Senator at the time of the offense. He resigned in March 2017, shortly after his conduct led the Cleveland County District Attorney to charge him with state crimes.
A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Shortey on September 5, 2017. That indictment included three counts relating to child pornography: emailing videos of a prepubescent girl and young boys in October 2013 and producing child pornography by persuading John Doe to send him a sexually explicit image. As a result of a plea agreement, the United States dismissed these counts.
On September 17, 2018, U.S. District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti sentenced Shortey to prison for 180 months, or fifteen years, in addition to ten years of supervised release.
On January 31, 2019, the court conducted an evidentiary hearing to determine how much Shortey must pay his victim. Dr. Robyn Cowperthwaite of the University of Oklahoma testified for the United States regarding her assessment of the victim and her recommended course of treatment. Based on this testimony, Judge DeGiusti ordered Shortey to pay his victim $125,850.00, the cost of the recommended treatment.
This restitution award flows from the Department of Justice’s efforts to combat human trafficking, including a focus on securing resources and restitution for victims. In 2018, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys ("EOUSA"), the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section published a quick reference guide entitled “Restitution for Human Trafficking Victims,” which assists federal prosecutors in obtaining restitution for human trafficking victims. EOUSA also developed a "Toolkit" that provides information on practices, procedures, models, and forms employed in various U.S. Attorney’s Offices that are helpful in obtaining restitution for victims.
This case was the result of an investigation by the FBI and the Moore Police Department, with assistance from the Cleveland County District Attorney’s Office and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys K. McKenzie Anderson and Brandon Hale prosecuted the case.
Reference is made to court filings for further information.
Indictment Unsealed Charging Former State Senator with Child Pornography and Child Sex Trafficking Offenses
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – An indictment was unsealed today charging RALPH ALLAN LEE SHORTEY, 35, of Oklahoma City, with federal crimes involving child pornography and child sex trafficking, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
On September 5, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Shortey. Counts 1 and 2 charge him with using a facility of interstate commerce on October 10 and 15, 2013, to transport child pornography. In particular, these child pornography counts allege Shortey used his smartphone to send a video involving a prepubescent girl and videos involving young boys from his AOL email address to a Hotmail address and a Yahoo! address. Count 3 alleges Shortey produced child pornography by persuading a minor identified as John Doe to send him at least one image of Doe’s penis. This count alleges Shortey began communicating with Doe on Kik, a social media application, in February 2016 and that the production of child pornography took place between February 14, 2016, and March 8, 2017.
Count 4 charges Shortey with child sex trafficking for soliciting a minor to engage in a commercial sex act on March 8 and 9, 2017. According to the indictment, Doe advised Shortey via Kik on March 8 that he needed money for spring break. Shortey is alleged to have replied: "I don’t really have any legitimate things I need help with right now. Would you be interested in ‘sexual’ stuff?" The indictment states that after Doe responded "yes," the Kik conversation included explicit references to sexual conduct. The indictment further alleges that just after midnight on March 9, Shortey drove Doe from Doe’s house to a Super 8 Motel in Moore, Oklahoma, where Shortey rented a room with his credit card. Based on information provided by Doe’s father, officers of the Moore Police Department knocked on the motel room door at approximately 1:00 a.m. and allegedly discovered Doe with Shortey, whose backpack contained an open box of condoms.
If convicted, Shortey faces mandatory minimum sentences on each count. Counts 1 and 2 carry no less than 5 and up to 20 years in prison. Count 3 carries no less than 15 and up to 30 years in prison. And Count 4 carries no less than 10 years and up to life in prison. Shortey would also face supervised release after incarceration of at least 5 years and up to life, in addition to fines of up to $250,000 per count, mandatory restitution, $100 special assessments on Counts 1 and 2, and $5,000 special assessments on Counts 3 and 4.
Count 4 relates to facts charged in a three-count information filed in Cleveland County District Court on March 16, 2017, in case number CF-2017-430. In light of the federal indictment, that information will be dismissed. "I believe this case is best handled in one venue and have every confidence the U.S. Attorney’s Office will prosecute this matter expeditiously," said Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn. "It was an honor to work with the various law enforcement agencies involved in this investigation."
The public is reminded these charges are merely accusations and that Shortey is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Reference is made to court filings for further information.
This case is the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Moore Police Department, with assistance from the Cleveland County District Attorney’s Office and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys K. McKenzie Anderson and Brandon Hale are prosecuting the case.
#MeToo was raised to a national moment for its 15 minutes of fame by, once again,bastardizing history because, in the irony of it all, it was used to take out a significant portion of civil rights history, Detroit.
#MeToo leadership probably let this one slip by, you know, because I believe they are too busy focusing on their legal defenses.
That is how you know you are dealing with "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) because they believe they can rewrite history, considering the fact that the majority of civil rights history has been omitted from our institutions of learning, and replaced with reaffirmation of chattel law, based upon the Four Fluids Doctrine: bile, blood, piss, & spit.
Gotta dump and lump people into monetary categories, (code name for federal funding research grants to ensure there is a profitable return on those Public Private Partnership Targeted Case Management Medicaid community programs) by crowning with scholarly laurels in the accolades of becoming one of "The Elected Ones ( code for being picked and groomed to be the strawman so they can keep stealin'), by keeping them dumb, fat & happy.
Anyway, if you can have the surviving families of 911 successfully sue for reparations, and you can have lots of people create NGOs and have online GoFundMe accounts for having to experience far less in their lives than Dr. Olivia Hooker, then, perhaps, right after Detroit is made whole again, then the model can be easily transposed to other geographic regions around the world.
Either that or the #MeToo leadership can something to honor civil rights history, but I doubt it.
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, the 103-year-old last known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa "Race Riot" (May 31 through June 1) died recently. Hooker was, in the words of Maya Angelou, "a phenomenal woman."
At age 6, she survived what many scholars consider the country's deadliest racial conflagration. In 1945, she became the first active-duty African-American woman in the U.S. Coast Guard. She earned a master's degree two years later and a Ph.D. in 1961, both in psychology.
Hooker dedicated her life to working for racial justice. She was a longtime NAACP activist. And Hooker spent her last decades fighting for reparations for the survivors and descendants of the Tulsa massacre. Commemorating her life offers an opportunity to re-examine what she called "the terrible catastrophe" and the case for reparations.
Hooker's recollections provide tremendous insight into the mentality of white supremacists. She observed the mob took what they thought was valuable and what their victims loved and destroyed what they couldn't take.
Haunted by memories of that terrible night, Hooker suffered from nightmares for years. Two incidents impressed upon her 6-year-old mind lingered. She recounted how upon breaking into her home, the mob "took an ax to the family piano." The other memory seared into her consciousness concerned a black doll and "some beautiful clothes" her grandmother had made for it. It was Hooker's first African-American doll. To her horror, she recalled, the marauders "set fire to my doll's clothes."
Popularly known as "Black Wall Street," Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood was the wealthiest African-American community of its time. It was home to 10,000 black people who owned 600 businesses and hundreds of thriving social institutions.
Formerly called "Little Africa," the Greenwood community housed a hospital, a bank, a bus system, libraries, two newspapers, 30 grocery stores, 21 restaurants, a score of churches, four movie theaters and several schools. Black-owned real estate and personal property valued at $31 million in 2018 dollars disappeared in flames overnight.
The official record cites 37 dead (25 black and six white). However, the NAACP's Walter White, who appraised Tulsa in the massacre's aftermath, estimated 50 dead white men and between 150 and 200 black folks, men and women.
Led by the military veterans who composed the radical African Blood Brotherhood post, black Tulsans heroically fought back. But, the ABB and other defenders of Greenwood were eventually overwhelmed by the sheer size of the mob — 25,000 maddened marauders, Tulsa's police force and the Oklahoma National Guard.
Police officers often led the assault. During the pogrom, cars "bristling with guns" fired indiscriminately as they sped throughout the African-American community. Tulsa's police force dispatched more than a dozen crop duster planes from which officers and others dropped "sticks of dynamite" and "burning balls of turpentine." They burned more than 1,200 residences, turning 10,000 blacks into homeless refugees. After the massacre ended, the police arrested 6,000 African-Americans. Most were held illegally in detention camps. The entire Greenwood community comprising 35 blocks and more than a square mile was demolished.
Within a generation, black Tulsans rebuilt much of Greenwood. However, they remained haunted by the hurt and horror of the massacre. After decades of struggle, they succeeded in getting a state commission appointed.
In 1997, the Oklahoma Legislature charged an 11-member commission with producing an accurate historical account of the "1921 Tulsa Race Riot" and providing recommendations. Three and half years later, in February 2001, the commission issued its findings and recommended "restitution to the historic Greenwood Community, in real and tangible form." They proposed:
— Direct payments of reparations to the survivors;
— Direct payments of reparations to the descendants of survivors;
— A scholarship fund for students affected by the race riot;
— Creation of an economic development enterprise zone in the historic Greenwood neighborhood;
— A memorial for the reburial of any human remains found in the search for unmarked graves.
Gov. Francis Keating signed the commission's recommendations into law, albeit replacing reparation payments with an apology. Ultimately, the only recommendation the state and the city acted on was the creation of a memorial that became the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation in the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park.
In response, survivors and descendants sued the state. In March 2003, U.S. District Judge James O. Ellison dismissed the suit. He ruled the suit was too late; the state's two-year limit on civil rights suits began ticking shortly after the 1921 massacre. In 2005, the SCOTUS dismissed the suit without even a comment.
U.S. law is often on the wrong side of justice.
Justice, reparations, will not come through the courts. It will come through political struggle, in Congress and state legislatures, and in the streets.
An Oklahoma Republican sparked controversy after he suggested turning over thousands of the state’s non-English speaking students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a way to save money.
This is not a proposed measure to save money. This is a proposed policy to maximize revenues to kick off the privatization of child welfare services in the state.
To begin, Mike Ritze's real name is James Michael Ritze and he just reported $17,200 injection into his campaign from PACs.
Republican Rep. Mike Ritze, said Oklahoma could solve some of its money problems by identifying what his caucus believes are 82,000 non-English speaking students and sending them to ICE to determine whether they are citizens in an interview with local news station News9.
“Identify them and then turn them over to ICE to see if they truly are citizens — and do we really have to educate noncitizens?” Ritze asked.
This is called forced assimilation.
This is exactly what they did, and are still doing to Native Americans...in Oklahoma, because this is a christian nation, remember?
The 1982 Supreme Court decisionPlyler v. Doeprohibits states from denying education to undocumented immigrants. The Associated Press reports that there are 50,000 English learners in Oklahoma’s public schools, and many of the students could be U.S. citizens.Ritze’s proposal, which he said could save Oklahoma $60 million, received immediate backlash from colleagues and education officials. Of course, I went through my archives on Oklahoma and it does not have a very good track record when it comes to its child welfare system because it was continuously sued.
“We shouldn’t try to fix the budget hole by threatening children,” Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Joy Hofmeister tweeted. “We are better than that.”
We shouldn't try to fix the budget hole by threatening children. We are better than that. #oklaedhttps://t.co/oLep4tAXt8
Hofmeister told the Associated Press the idea was “utterly shameful.” Other Republicans also dismissed Ritze’s plan.
Jeramy Carter Lund,
The guy who probably came up with the
idea of trafficking tiny humans
who do not speak English for his
Social Impact Bonds.
Ritze did not come up with this plan. He is lacks the cognitive skills to generate such an idea such as this. He was either:
A. Bribed;
B. Blackmailed; or,
C. Just really slimy.
“On this subject of deporting students, that is not a position that we support,” Republican Rep. Chuck Strohm told the AP.
This "idea" really has nothing to do about the issue of deportation. It is about generating profit through Social Impact Bonds to fund his political campaign. Here is who is supporting this idea, the Sorensen Impact Center of the University of Utah. It has a trust fund and refuses to report to the U.S. Security Exchange Commission on how much it has. Jeramy Lund is the "Financial Genius" (trademark pending) who came up with this plan because he just filed his Venture Capital Investment plan to traffic tiny humans on June 9, 2017 and is working through a public university, all the telltale signs of money laundering.
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85 FORT DOUGLAS
BUILDING 602
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SALT LAKE CITY
UTAH
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4356555133
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Randall
Taylor
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85 Fort Douglas Boulevard
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Sorenson Companies
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84111
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Carter
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4784 Sagebrush Road
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Park City
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84098
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2017-06-09
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