Newsletter August 16, 2011

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Meet Dan Sullivan

Sullivan is the Floor Leader at the Oklahoma House of Representatives, a post that gives him enormous power over bills, indeed he can kill a bill just by not allowing it to be placed on the agenda. Sullivan has served almost six terms, with his last legislative session ending in 2012, and term limits prevent him from running for state office again. So why are we singling out Sullivan? Sullivan wasn't one of the original 12 Transvestite Republicans, so named for their votes for HR 1397 in the 2011 legislative session but he is an integral part of House Leadership that pushed HR 1397 forward. Their goal was to allow transvestites to change their birth certificates after a sex change operation, giving no notice that Ann was born an Andy. Sullivan claims to be a devout Christian, attends a big Baptist church in Tulsa, indeed he was called out during services and literally anointed with oil by his pastor after Sullivans affair came to light, after he divorced his childhood sweetheart wife of two decades. The pastor proclaimed Sullivan a Godly man. If I were to guess, I'd say Sullivan's part in this was to make sure HR 1397 made it to the House floor and to vote for it but when the transvestite birth certificate portion was exposed, Sullivan panicked and voted against the bill. Sullivan later voted yes on the bill so he is on record supporting this issue. Why then would Sullivan support changes to the birth records of transvestites? Because the State Chamber of Commerce wanted it done so that companies on the East and West coast would think Oklahoma less

backward and would move their workers here. In short they want to whip the redneck and religion out of us and turn us into a tolerant and progressive people. I dont know about you but as a lifelong Oklahoma resident, Oklahoma citizens have always been a pretty tolerant bunch, we just dont want things rubbed in our face.

Sullivan also lead the fight to defeat the Charles Key amendment to HR 1008, the opening day vote that allowed almost all of our bills to be killed in committee without a vote. Sullivan also headed the GOP forces that whipped or punished Republicans that wanted to sign the HR 1004 Discharge Petition. Sullivan voted four times for the Obama Care/Fallin Care Health Insurance Exchanges, long after the state voted overwhelmingly to reject Obama Care in the November 2010 election. With Sullivan lobbying for a GRDA executive position after he is term limited out, Sullivan is voting shamelessly to support big business and the State Chamber of Commerce agenda.

As I mentioned in February and again in our last newsletter, Sullivan has been the subject of a six month investigation by Tea Party activists. The man has many, many, enemies after 11 years of legislative work. Rumors of his corruption and low morals began flowing in as far back as 2010 during his efforts to kill the Open Carry legislation. As we began asking around for leads on Sullivans misdeeds, anonymous letters arrived filled with court records, medical records, insurance records, and divorce records. I found one packet sitting on my car one night after work, a thick folder packed with personal information on Sullivan. Some letters obviously came from a former employer; others might have come from an insurance agency, judged by the content. From reading the divorce file at the Tulsa County Courthouse where Sullivan complained that someone had sent his tax records to a former employer and to his pastor, the list of motivated people sending documents is a long one. We even had Tulsa allies do some dumpster diving for us, targeting both Sullivan and his ex-wifes trash cans. As we stitched together who were friends and family and who was on what side, other activists filled in gaps in our knowledge via Facebook conversations, email, and the occasional phone call to Sullivans acquaintances. Earlier this year I began talking to Sullivans ex-wife who provided documentation not on Sullivan but on a realtor that had been involved in a transaction that included the forging of the first page of a six page document set, after the ex-wife had signed the last page! The Oklahoma Real Estate

Commission accepted a complaint against the realtor but did little in the way of either investigating or listening to the facts. To me it is pretty simple; you have two copies of the first page of a six page document set, both different. Was it the realtor that did the forgery? Was it Sullivans attorney? We will never know if a real investigation doesnt put the pressure on both till one of them cracks.

The numreous allegations against Representative Sullivan run the gamut from insurance fraud, forgery of loan applications, forgery of real estate documents, embezzlement of marital assets while the same assets were frozen by court order, paying for his mistress using pretax dollars, delinquent property taxes, pressuring Tulsa police officials to remove an off duty police officer serving as a body guard for the ex-wife (that one is quite troubling), and receiving sweetheart loans from a major bank. After reviewing the divorce file at the Tulsa County Courthouse, reviewing photographs of many of the documents from that file, one could make the case that Sullivan has used his position as a legislator to attempt to beat his

ex-wife into the ground. One source opined that of all the allegations, the discovery of the embezzlement of marital assets while those assets were frozen by court order is what tipped Representative Sullivan over the edge. Since 2005 Representative Sullivan went from making almost $600,000.00 per year to a quarter of that, even far less in one year. Stitching together Representative Sullivans obligations and expenses from his Tulsa Home, his Waterford Condo in Oklahoma City, membership costs from his Tulsa Petroleum Club from public divorce file information and anonymously supplied tax records shows that Sullivan was in deep financial problems. I believe that it is likely that Representative Sullivan decided to beat his ex-wife into the ground to prevent her from coming forward with evidence of his misdeeds. Knowing there is always two sides to a story however we will continue to watch until the current investigation is completed by authorities.

Would you believe that he filed 34 contempt charges against his ex-wife after the divorce? One was for her refusing to co sign on a loan on their Oklahoma City condo. And the kicker? This was after their divorce was final! Another was because someone posted a message on his face book page! Another was over an old pocket knife that he had lost. One was over some broken cups in their storage building! Sullivan asked the court for six months jail time for some of the contempt charges and massive fines on others. Yes, divorces are sometimes caused by both parties, and yes they do get vicious at times but this poor ladys motions get filed and not heard while her ex-husband seems to be able to tell the judge what to do! There is so much material available and there are so many serious charges that we are going to parcel the story out issue by issue in our newsletter. Publication of some of the issues will be delayed while we send

copies of the documents to State and County officials before releasing the documents to the public. Around the last of May the story broke about our offices being ransacked. Now you are going to see just why they were so desperate that they resorted to burglary. What they didnt know was that we had an idea on just how hot this was going to get, those files were kept in another location and after the burglary they were scanned and copies placed where they could be brought to light should something happen. Now for the first allegation against Representative Dan Sullivan

Insurance Fraud:
On 6-14-2006 Dan Sullivan did a pretty mundane thing, he applied for a disability insurance policy from Guardian Life Insurance. In this application it appears that Sullivan made numerous major misrepresentations on his medical history, his emotional health, his family medical history, his travel history, his participation in hazardous sports, and his tobacco use. Insurance premiums set the monthly cost of the premium by attempting to gauge the risk of a claim so lying about major risks lowers the monthly premium. Yes the statue of limitations has likely ran on any fraud committed but our reason for exposing this corruption is to begin to paint a picture of the character of the man appointed Floor Leader of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives. In the 2006 Guardian disability insurance application, Sullivan apparently misrepresented his Mitral Valve Prolapse problem that was originally

diagnosed in 1978, a serious enough issue that it caused him to be turned down for health insurance in 1986. The heart problem was somewhat disclosed on a Massachusetts Mutual life insurance application in 1996. In the 2006 Guardian application Sullivan also called his Mitral Valve Prolapse a heart murmur. A heart murmur is a common occurrence and not always a serious health issue, indeed the definition of heart murmur is simply an abnormal sound made by the heart. A Mitral Valve Prolapse is a diagnosed cause of a heart murmur, a specific cause and sometimes a serious disorder. In the 2006 Guardian application Sullivan apparently claimed no treatment, consultation, or counseling for heart condition in previous ten years despite the extensive record of concern in 1988 and 1989 and lab work in early 2006. Yes, the ten years previous information request stops at 1996 but does a serious medical condition just lay dormant from 1988 to 2006? Then does his heart condition suddenly get worse and require hospitalization in 2007, a year after the disability insurance application is given? Or was Sullivan racing to have a disability policy in place in case he became unable to work? The Guardian disability application is showing a different home phone number, why? When asked for my home phone number on an official document, I will give my home phone number. But if I didnt want someone at home to be privy to what I was doing, perhaps I wouldnt. Sullivan was in the midst of a sordid affair with a House staffer, a fellow attorney, so perhaps the old ticker was making him anxious. On the Guardian application Sullivan denied his intent to travel despite a long history of foreign travel. He apparently traveled to Ensenada Mexico in 1992, St Thomas in 1995, Cancun in 1995, Cozumel in 1997, Canada in 1995 and 1997, Egypt in 1998, Russia in 1999, Israel in 1998, India in 2001, Cancun 2003, Cozumel in 2003 and 2004, the Dominican Republic in 2003, and Tapei in 2007. International travel is considered much more risky due to political instability, lower sanitation standards, exposure to regional diseases for which your body hasnt developed antibodies, and lower quality emergency care available should you run into health problems while overseas. Did Sullivan cheat his insurance company by downplaying the actual risks in his life?

On the Guardian application Sullivan denied participating in auto racing. Insurers charge a lot more for policies on individuals that participate in risky sports. Sullivan took professional race car driving lessons in Texas in 2005, apparently spent a lot of money doing so. Do most people usually spend that much time and effort on a hobby that they dont intend to pursue? Sullivan also apparently downplayed his scuba diving trips in Mexico, claiming only one occurrence in 1995. Sources put Sullivan scuba diving on numerous Cozumel and Cancun trips. On the Guardian application Sullivan denied smoking despite reports saying that he was a regular cigar smoker at social events as well as being a regular smoker at work functions. On the Guardian application Sullivan denied being treated at St Francis Emergency Room after returning from India in 2001. Unknown causes were blamed, could have been bad water causing dysentery. Sullivan supposedly took no vaccination shots before leaving country as is usually recommended for foreign travel. He reportedly came back to the U.S. extremely sick yet he seems to have omitted this part of his medical record from the Guardian disability application. Why? On the Guardian application Sullivan denied any treatment or diagnosis of emotional disorders or mental health treatment. Sources put Sullivan seeing Tulsa therapist Carol Dillard five times in 2000 and 2001 and documents reveal that Sullivan received authorization to begin seeing another therapist

from PacificCare Behavioral Health on Sept 27 th of 2007, having a psychological evaluation and seeing a therapist on 9-28-07 and 10-1107. Did Sullivan have a history of emotional disorders, anxieties, or stress that he chose not to reveal to the insurance company? On the Guardian application Sullivan denied family history of illnesses on page 4 despite reports of maternal and paternal medical histories showing otherwise. Reports say that his maternal grandfather had brain surgery allegedly for a tumor, his uncle had stroke (an attorney in Sapulpa) and the some of maternal family members had heart issues and stroke issues. On his paternal side, his dad reportedly had heart trouble and high blood pressure issues, and hereditary sinus surgery issues followed the paternal side of his family. Sullivans tangled web caught up with him in late 2007 when his heart condition declined to the point where he required heart surgery, valvuloplasty on his long malfunctioning mitral valve, a cardiopulmonary bypass with a prosthetic ring implanted. Interestingly enough Dan traveled to Cleveland for his surgery rather than use a local hospital. Why? By misrepresenting his medical history, travel habits, family medical history, risky sport hobbies, did Sullivan committed insurance fraud? Would a man capable of making over $500,000 a year chose to cheat an insurance company rather than pay premiums based upon his actual risks and condition? The Tea Party is calling on the State Insurance Commission, the Tulsa District Attorney, the Bar Association, and the House of Representatives to conduct investigations into Sullivans conduct and to file appropriate charges at the county and state level if the investigation proves actual insurance fraud.