Well, hello there Sheriff Michael Burgess!
Sheriff Burgess, you’re probably going to need this. It’s a guide to surviving your stay in jail and prison.
Now, why would a fine sheriff like Sheriff Michael Burgess need a guide to surviving a stay in jail? After all, Sheriff Burgess is an upstanding guy. The Oklahoman is a former police officer and state government investigator. He was appointed sheriff after his predecessor died, and was popular enough to get elected and re-elected in 1996, 2000 and 2004.
Prison? Michael Burgess is a family man! He’s married, and is a grandfather to eight kids! And like so many other Oklahomans, Michael Burgess likes to get out and hunt and play some golf.
Not a chance would this guy ever do something that dishonors law enforcement.
Yeah. Not a chance.
On the 16th of April, 2008, James Boring, a district attorney in Texas County, Oklahoma filed a few documents in Custer County District Court - the same county that Michael Burgess happened to be the sheriff of. The filed court documents reveal what could only be called a pattern of most un-sherifflike behavior between the years 2005 and 2007.
What kind of un-sherifflike behavior is James Boring accusing Michael Burgess of? Well, Michael Burgess is accused of using his power as county sheriff to get at least five women to sexually pleasure him in exchange for preferential treatment with their situations. The words “sexual slavery” were thrown around.
Four of the women listed were either inmates in the small, 80-inmate Custer County jail or were members of the county’s drug program. Apparently, Michael Burgess would promise to keep the women he had sex with from going back to jail. The sheriff’s activities came to light when, on the 21st of May, 2007, one of the women Michael Burgess had been having sex with tested hot for drugs. This was a problem for the woman because one of the requirements for this woman staying out of jail was that she pass regular drug screens. With a failed drug test, she was going to be sent back to jail for violation of her parole/program requirements.
When this woman was told that she had failed the drug test and that she was going back to jail, she pointed out to the nice officer that since she had been having regular sex with Sheriff Michael Burgess and that the sheriff had promised that he would protect her and keep her from going back to jail.
Well then.
Someone tipped off the state authorities about the woman’s statement, and Sheriff Michael Burgess learned about her statement as well.
While the state authorities were figuring out what to do about the problem, Michael Burgess contacted this woman’s cousin. The woman’s cousin happened to be female and also happened to be part of the drug court program, which would indicate that Sheriff Michael Burgess wasn’t the best judge of character for choosing women with which to hold extra-marital affairs.
The sheriff told this woman’s cousin to throw out anything that might hold DNA evidence from his and her cousin’s sexual encounters, like condoms, that might prove that he’d been doing what he had been doing. In exchange for this woman’s help in covering up his abuse of power, Sheriff Michael Burgess promised to have her brother released from jail.
Nice. Very nice.
According to the documents filed in court, Sheriff Michael Burgess appears to be something of a sexual predator, forcing inmates under his control to perform sexual acts (oral, anal and vaginal) in his office, his sheriff’s vehicle, local motels and hotels, a truck stop and in houses belonging to both inmates and regular non-incarcerated friends of his.
In one particularly interesting and ironic case, Sheriff Michael Burgess took one of the women in his drug programs with him to Oklahoma City in April of 2006 when he traveled to take part in a “legislative initiative” relating to drug court problems across the state.
While there were actually other participants from the drug program who traveled with the sheriff, they were accompanied by a drug counselor. While the other participants and the drug counselor went to dinner, Sheriff Michael Burgess told this particular woman to stay behind with him at his room in the Biltmore Hotel. According to the court documents, neither Sheriff Michael Burgess nor this woman went hungry that night, as they stayed in the sheriff’s hotel room, ordered room service and had a whole heck of a lot of sex all night long.
Another ex-inmate claims that she became a trustee in the jail after she agreed to give Sheriff Michael Burgess a blowjob and was fired from the position when she refused to perform the same act later on.
Yet another series of incidents involving the sheriff inappropriately conducting himself were related to his relationship with a former sheriff’s office employee who said that Michael Burgess touched her a number of times, at a restaurant, in a courtroom and while she tried on her office uniform.
And in October of 2007, a federal lawsuit was filed that detailed how 12 former inmates of the Custer County jail were encouraged to engage in wet t-shirt contests and were given cigarettes if they exposed their breasts to officers.
So there’s a lot of accusations flying around.
Enough accusations that when, as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him on the 16th of April, 2008, Custer County Sheriff Michael Burgess resigned, effective immediately. Michael Burgess surrendered to state authorities, was booked and released on a $50,000 bond. As long as now ex-Sheriff Michael Burgess stays away from any of the 33 witnesses expected to testify against him, he’ll be free to pursue all the hunting and golf he wishes.
Eventually, he’ll have his day in court. Considering that Michael Burgess could possibly face up to 467 years in prison if convicted of the 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy, five counts of bribery by a public official and a few counts of perjury that he’s been charged with, it will probably be a long, long day in court for him.
After which he’s going to need the guide to surviving your stay in jail and prison.
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People like this are a disgrace to the name of law enforcement — no wonder so many believe cops are all pigs! Ex-cops are not treated well in prison, not at all, and ex-cops who are also sex offenders are going to be even worse off. I wonder how long he’ll live.
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Law Enforcement officers should always be held to a higher standard then others, and when they break the law, they should face worse consequences then others as well…
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Nissa reply on April 18, 2008:
I’ll agree with that. Those who’s very livelihood is made by knowing and dealing with laws and criminals should know better then to do stupid shit like this.
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yeah…you abuse power of any sort it’s absolutely wrong. Does not matter if you are a Sheriff, Judge, CEO or the President…you know better and you should be punished severely.
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TurtleMania reply on April 18, 2008:
He looks like a chipmunk with a big ass hat on.
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He’s disgusting. I believe he will die in prison, from choking on some big african americans fat dick.
How do you like it Sheriff?
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Isn’t this a case of he said/she said?
A sheriff is sworn to uphold the law. Drug addicts break the law. They get thrown in jail. They get mad at the big, bad mean sheriff that throws them in jail. So the goddam pot-smokers decide to spread lies and rumors about law enforcement.
This man was elected by the people, for the people. I find it a little hard to believe that someone can be elected to 3 terms as sheriff, have a career as a police officer and investigator that obviously was distinguished enough to get him appointed sheriff by other duly elected officials, only to throw it all away to have sex with some little skanky, pothead hippie.
What kind of a country are we living in? Do you want to live in a country where a few meth-addled, crack-smoking dirtbags that are high on mary jane can spread rumors and destroy your life? or do you want to live in a country where law-breakering hop-heads are sent to jail where they belong.
These pothead tokers with their “joints” are destroying America. That’s America with a “C” - not a “K”, comrade. The money the potheads spend on meth goes directly to Mexican Cocaine Cartels that use that money to fund terrorists training camps in Afghanistan. But we’re supposed to believe these drug addicts when they attact a man on the frontlines in a war against Godless heathens?
I’ll take my chances with the God-fearing family man that was elected to protect and serve before I’ll listen to any dope smoking pinko commie bastard.
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Meaghan reply on April 19, 2008:
“I find it a little hard to believe that someone can be elected to 3 terms as sheriff, have a career as a police officer and investigator that obviously was distinguished enough to get him appointed sheriff by other duly elected officials, only to throw it all away to have sex with some little skanky, pothead hippie.”
Erm, hello? Eliot Spitzer? Remember him? Governor of New York until recently? Flushed his political career down the toilet when caught paying a ridiculous amount of money to prostitutes?
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Miwist reply on April 19, 2008:
Spitzer was caught in a politically contrived sting. He is still a man, given to temptation, and the escort they used to entrap him was incredibly attractive and well-educated.
This was a trap set to catch a wonderful individual that spent years putting criminals in jail. We should overlook his indescretion and let him get back to the serious work of protecting us from the seedy bastards that are infiltrating our streets.
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Harpy Lady reply on April 19, 2008:
It’s precisely people LIKE you that think as moronically as you do that elect and re-elect these idiots to office.
Open your eyes and maybe try to think once in awhile.
Meaghan reply on April 21, 2008:
So Spitzer’s a man with temptations and his adulterous, hypocritical, criminal conduct should be excused, but Michael Burgess’s shouldn’t? Spitzer may have put criminals in jail, but he was a criminal himself.
I’m hoping you’re just a troll trying to get a rise out of people and don’t actually mean what you’re saying.
Miwist reply on April 21, 2008:
Michael Burgess is also a man that has devoted his life to preserving law and order.
The people that smoke wacky-tobacky are spreading lies because he had the courage to enforce the law. They’re upset because he dragged their 30 year old hippie butts out of their parents basements, where they sit around all day listening to their heavy metal rock and roll. Maybe they should get a job so we don’t have to continue importing poisoned Communist crap. But that might take them away from listening to the likes of Lead Zepolin, Run DMC, or Leonard Skinnerd and wondering where their next “hit” of LSD is coming from.
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TurtleMania reply on April 21, 2008:
Oh - I want some wacky-crack! My friend, Faelian and I, will drink skooma all day.
Maybe it will help me offer exact punishment with great zest and fervor!
PantalonesDeDios reply on April 21, 2008:
LMFAO @ Leonard Skinnerd.
You have got to be the worst troll I have ever seen.
Michael Burgess is just redneck scum like the rest of Oklahoma. No surprise here.
Kim reply on May 12, 2008:
WTF!!! LOLOLOLOL
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You got it exactly right, Miwist. We want a world “where law-breakering hop-heads are sent to jail where they belong”. And from the news stories I read outside this site, (admin, I hope that’s not a sin), this story first came out when a parole report that she would be okay going back to prison because of everything going on. And the prosecutors had to move her case to Texas. Just to be able to get an unbiased investigation started. (Thank you CNN).
And about your statement, “The money the potheads spend on meth goes directly to Mexican Cocaine Cartels that use that money to fund terrorists training camps in Afghanistan.” Would those be the same terrorist training camps started by the C.I.A.? That was endorsed by the first Bush in office? Or the terrorist training camps that started up after the United States of Americas government stopped funding them? Just curious.
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Miwist reply on April 19, 2008:
I don’t know why, but I am surprised at all the Anti-american rhetoric being spewed by the likes of Meaghan, Evil, and Harpy Lady.
Communists like you 3 shouldn’t be allowed to voice opinions.
Why would you accuse the CIA of training terrorists? The CIA has given much needed training to people that want to defend themselves from the scourge of pagan, satan-worshipping Muslims and Buddists. The CIA is trying to keep the world safe for Democracy. They ensure the sanctity of our borders so you and I can drive safely through our cities, reveling in the majesty of having an uninhibited supply of oil produced by American Companies.
People like Elliot Spitzer and Sheriff Michael Burgess aren’t afraid to jail scofflaws. I think they’re intelligent enough to know that despite their honest efforts, a few people are going to operate on a personal agenda that doesn’t include what’s good for America, and spread lies about them. Elliot Spitzer and Michael Burgess are truly martyrs.
The drug lords and pimps may have won this battle, but there are plenty more public servants cut from the same cloth these fine men were cut from. They’ll help create the America I can be proud of.
I don’t want to live in an America where we are forced to recycle scraps of aluminum and plastic so we can make equipment to keep our Armed Forces safe in this war on Terror. I don’t want to continue worrying that our children may choke to death on lead paint the commies in China slather on cheap toys. I don’t want to live in an America where Mexicans and their ilk roam the streets. I don’t want an America where marijuana junkies feed their habit by robbing liquor stores and stealing Social Security checks.
This can only be achieved by strong protectors of the US Constitution. People like Spitzer, Burgess, Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, and the fine operatives in the CIA, and the National Security Agency.
If anybody disagrees, maybe they should just move to North Korea or Venezuela where they belong.
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Max The Cat reply on April 19, 2008:
Fucking right-wing crackpots….the only thing as bad as them are left-wing crackpots. So called Patriots spewing “America, love it or leave it” here, in the land of the 1st Ammendment. Or burned out hippies telling us the sytem is evil and we need to burn it down and start over again. At least I’ve lived long enough to know that for every Bill Mahr there’s a Rush Limbaugh, for every Kieth Oberman there’s a Bill O’Reilly. You assholes deserve each other….
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RealityCheck reply on April 20, 2008:
First, there is a very big difference between pot, meth, crack and cocaine.
Second, there is a very big difference between Pagan, Satan worship, Muslim and Buddhism.
It also seems, that these upstanding White Americans are doing some private business with drug addicts and prostitutes. Not to mention that some other upstanding American citizens are coming out of the woodwork to accuse this fine Sheriff of conduct unbecoming an official.
Uhmm…Why does America recycle? Wow.
If you don’t want to live in a country that recycles or where “Mexicans and the ilk roam” perhaps it is you that should take root in North Korea or Venezuela. Better yet, join the FLDS and you won’t have to worry about other religions, races or drugs and feel confident that your 14 year-old offspring will marry an upstanding, White, 70 year-old. That way you can stay in your ideal American world.
I do agree with one small detail from this foul pile of stench and that is to purchase products made in the United States of America at all times.
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DualDenz reply on April 21, 2008:
windup merchant alert!
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PantalonesDeDios reply on April 21, 2008:
OMFG AGREE OR GTFO OF MY AMERICA!
Don’t feed the trolls folks.
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Harpy_Lady reply on April 21, 2008:
ROFL…so anyone that disagrees with you is a communist? What are you 5?
You need to get a grip and use some brain cells before they all die off. Your opinion is not the only one that matters. Free speech means that I and anyone else is actually ENTITLED to disagree with you.
This man did something wrong and will now pay the price. End of story. Just because he had a badge doesn’t make him immune to criminal activity.
As far as Spitzer - he paid a woman to have sex. Who cares? He didn’t abuse his power and force or coerce those beneath him into sexual submission. BIG difference.
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Miwist reply on April 21, 2008:
I didn’t say that all people that disagree with me are communist. Most people simply aren’t as well-informed as I am, and, as a result, make snap judgements and make stupid comments.
It’s the free-thinkers like you, that seem to think the Constitution was written to protect your “right” to say anything you goddam well please, that are bringing about the downfall of America.
The Constitution was not written so you can second guess and and question the decisions of our elected officials. These men and women are in office to watch out for your best interest, to protect you.
The Constitution was not written so Muslims, Wiccans, and other pagans can sacrifice chickens and worship a Buddha statue instead of God.
The Constitution was not written to allow people in the Middle East to keep the world’s supply of energy from us.
The Constitution was not written to allow people from other countries come into our great nation.
The Constitution was written so we can be a free nation, a nation where we can live in peace and harmony, a nation that gives the gift of democracy to the rest of the world.
We live in a great nation. We’re blessed with all that we could want and more. And we try to share our message with the Middle East, the Africans, Cuba, and Tibet, asking nothing in return. Yet they treat us the same way the potheads treat Michael Burgess and the same way the press treats Elliot Spitzer. Elliot Spitzer did not pay some hooker for sex, he contracted with an escort for companionship. Why is that so difficult to understand?
It’s the way you freethinkers, tree huggers, dope users, terrorists, and communists run roughshod over the Constitution, the laws, and our trusted officials that makes me think you should move to the Kremlin where you belong. I’ll bet they think it’s okay to question authority there.
RealityCheck reply on April 22, 2008:
“Most people aren’t as ‘well informed’ as you?”
Your profound ignorance is laughable and the conviction with which you state such babble is fucking hilarious.
Freak.
RealityCheck reply on April 22, 2008:
You are an ignorant piece of shit. The last thing that America needs right now are people like you pretending to be good Americans and touting the Constitution as your fucking backbone. Grow a spine of your own and figure out where you are.
After you do that, relax into your fabrication of life in America, take a deep breath and exhale.
You have the benefit of breathing the same air that I do. You lucky bitch.
Arsenic reply on April 24, 2008:
Miwist, you are an amazing concern troll, but let me give you a tip, make sure your vitriol is at least difficult to verify, if not unverifiable. Like your herod do, ya know?
You wrote:
“The CIA has given much needed training to people that want to defend themselves from the scourge of pagan, satan-worshipping Muslims and Buddists.”
First, “satan worshipping Muslims and Buddists…” fer cryin out loud, how about a course in comparitive religions!
Next: Let me give you the name of one of those CIA trainees that heps America and Americans.
That name is : Osama bin Laden, Head of al-Queda.
Nobody can be as off base as you, and still spell well, and not be trying. Busted concern troll. Now SYFPH already….
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Miwist- Bad, bad, bad, you naughty, sarcastic little pot-smoker!
How’s this?
The benefits of clearing out our prisons to make more room for the potheads who are bringing our country down are legion.
Murderers, rapists and child molestors may prey on a few victims here and there, but they aren’t corrupting our children en-masse the way the propogandist pro-pot losers are. Murderers, rapists and child molestors really only affect a few people with their crimes, but pot-smokers threaten ALL Americans. It’s just common sense to make room for the criminals who are really tearing at the fabric of our nation, and if that means setting free a large number of criminals that, to be honest, just really weren’t going to be reformed or rehabilitated, and are more likely to just reoffend when they finally make parole, we should really save our prison resources for other criminals.
Sigh. I’m just not as good at this as you are, Miwist.
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Do not feed the troll, people.
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Let the record state: I’m a Socialist. Not a Communist or Commie. Heh.
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My name is enough said, your comments crack me up, literally, laughing out loud. I think you need to give the constitution a break (oh no, I didnt capitalize constitution, im a commie!)
Seriously, you seem to think that this country is for you more than people who disagree with you. I can tell you, there are many people who agree and disagree with you, and that’s exactly the reason we have so much indecision and exactly the reason this country can do well, or go to hell, and that’s perfectly alright as stated by our constituion.
I hate that I am writing this because as others would point out, I am just feeding a troll, and i agree, but oh well, just thought some of the shit you said was uneducated and hilarious :)
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It’s a very confused little puppy.
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I’m sure that Miwist’s Kia Spectra(made in Seoul, South Korea) will get him to the court room.
Trolls prefer smaller vehicles.
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The Republic of Korea, one of the many beneficiaries of the great benevolence the United States bestowed upon her.
Patterning her government after the model government of the United States, unshackled of the communist tyranny of Russia.
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Miwist: 1st thing…it’s Led Zeppelin and Lynard Skynard.
2nd thing…I’m a pot head with a full time job and another job on the side…I’m not a communist.
3rd thing….you can’t group coke, pot and meth all in the same category. When I was a meth head my money went to the dealers. Now I’m a pot head my money goes to dealers and $1 menues. Not mexico.
4th thing…I smell bacon. I wouldn’t say these girls are lying, I think there are plenty law enforcement officers out there who use their titles to take advantage of situations and well, it looks like it’s completely reasonable.
5th thing…I learned this when I sobered up from meth…you can never trust a junkie, that being said, who knows. Bring on the condoms to the breakfast table with a side order of bacon damnit!
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