When Brian Bingman recently resigned as Oklahoma Secretary of State to make a run in the coming year for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, it was amidst a state audit. And now that audit has caught up with him.
Whether the accusations will damage Bingman’s campaign to be a state regulator isn’t clear. Voters will have to decide if it was damaging baggage or just an oversight.
But the audit found the Secretary of State’s Office exceeded its authority when it paid $90,000 to an attorney hired by Gov. Kevin Stitt to examine tribal issues.
State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd issued an audit last week that found the payments from the Secretary of State’s Office violated state law because they benefitted Bingman in his separate, unfunded position as Stitt’s cabinet secretary for Native American Affairs.
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