The former lawyer for the Oklahoma State Department of Health faces felony charges accusing her of sending herself threatening emails related to Oklahoma’s recently adopted medical marijuana rules.
Oklahoma County prosecutors filed three separate charges Tuesday against Julie Ezell. The criminal complaint accuses Ezell of sending threats to her own government email account earlier this month and reporting the threats to health department investigators.
Ezell did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for Oklahoma State Department of Health declined to comment.
The complaint says Ezell admitted to sending the emails after state investigators examined her cell phone.
Here's the full court felony criminal filing against former @HealthyOklahoma general counsel https://t.co/jeSMbnahP9 https://t.co/Ks1twIvkxE
— joe wertz (@joewertz) July 17, 2018
One of the emails contained Ezell’s home address and descriptions of the vehicles she drove, according to an affidavit signed by an agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Another email stated, “We will expose your corruption and evil. We would hate to hurt a pretty lady. You will hear us. We are just beginning,” the agent wrote in the affidavit.
Ezell is charged with preparing false evidence, falsely reporting a crime and using a computer to send falsely threatening emails.
Ezell resigned June 13 as general counsel for the state health department, three days after the board of health ignored her legal advice and approved two contentious amendments to the state’s first-ever medical marijuana regulations that banned the sale of smokable marijuana and require a pharmacist dispense the drug.
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