Sisney went to the media in January 2009 and stated that he had uncovered documents, found evidence,and had conversations that showed that, in his words, “criminal activities involving the expenditure of public money have taken place in the school district since at least the 1990’s and a massive cover-up scheme is now under way to keep this information from being disclosed.”

If there was any criminal wrongdoing in the BAPS purchasing department, evidently Jim Sisney didn’t know anything about it. Read the following excerpt from page 174 of Sisney’s deposition given under oath on 12/22/2009 (Kent “Bo” Rainey is the attorney from Rosenstein, Fist & Ringold who represented the school district in Sisney’s lawsuit against the BAPS district):

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Rainey: What facts do you have that Air Assurance billed the Broken Arrow Public Schools for work that it performed at the request of the Broken Arrow Public Schools?
Sisney: I’m not going to speculate, so I’m going to say I don’t know.
Rainey: You don’t know any facts as we sit here today?
Sisney: Right.
Rainey: What facts do you have that anybody from Air Assurance ever paid an employee of the school district any money or other benefit in exchange for work being provided by the school district
to Air Assurance?
Sisney: I don’t have any personal facts.
Rainey: What facts do you have that Air Assurance engaged in any illegal activities with the Broken Arrow Schools?
Sisney: Is this about Air Assurance or the District?
Rainey: Well, it goes to this whole criminal enterprise that is being asserted throughout your Complaint, so the question is as it was posed. And I’ll have the court reporter read it back. (court
reporter repeats question)
Sisney: I don’t know.
Rainey: You have no facts you can testify to today?
Sisney: Not today. There’s an investigation going on, and I think that’s going to determine my assumptions.
Rainey: Investigation by whom?
Sisney: I think it’s the OSBI and the state auditor’s office.

END QUOTE

Why has the media chosen to ignore this very important information from this publicly available court document, to counter the published claims of Sisney from 2008 and 2009?

Reynolds repeatedly tried to evade being served the subpoena to testify in the defamation lawsuit former Broken Arrow school superintendent Jim Sisney filed against three BA board members, a vendor, and a local optometrist, and when that failed and he was finally successfully served, he tried to avoid testifying by filing a motion to quash the subpoena, but the judge recently ruled his motion was without merit. I can’t wait to read his deposition when it becomes available to find out who passed on the confidential personnel documents from Sisney to him. Could it have been Rep. Mike Ritze, who also filed a motion to quash to keep from testifying in the same case, but who will also be required to testify?

Check out Broken Arrow Forum about the controversy that Sisney started in Broken Arrow in 2008, costing Broken Arrow taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees in response to the lawsuits filed against the school district, money that would have been better spent on educating children. The real story is different than Sisney’s version of events, which was the side reported in the media.

You’ll find court documents and other factual information related to the controversy and the two personal lawsuits that Sisney filed against the district and board members, etc., as well as detailed analysis of events.

There’s even more than one section on the site that pertains to Rep. Mike Reynolds and his actions on behalf of Jim Sisney. Just scroll down the main page to read all about it.