In newly released audio, the Oklahoma sheriff who was secretly recorded reportedly talking about killing reporters and lynching Black people also boasted about physically confronting the local district attorney and threatening to 'whoop his ass.'
also boasted about physically confronting the local district attorney and threatening to “whoop his ass,” newly released audio revealed.‘s office and told him “I ain’t no f-----g liar,” according to the McCurtain Gazette-News, which released the full 3-hour, 37-minute audio late Wednesday. NBC News has listened to the recording in full but has not independently verified its authenticity.
Neither Clardy nor Matloff have responded to requests for comment about their alleged confrontation — or about the recording that Willingham’s father and fellow reporter, Bruce Willingham,to gather evidence that the McCurtain County commissioners were illegally engaging in county business after the public meetings were over.
In the full recording that was released on Thursday, Jennings can be heard talking about punishing the McCurtain Gazette-News for its reporting on the county by buying an old military tank to drive into the newspaper building. Residents call for the resignation of several McCurtain County officials at a county commissioners meeting Monday in Idabel, Okla.Clardy, Manning and Hendrix have not made any public statements about the recording and have not responded to repeated requests for comment. But on Monday, the sheriff’s office claimed that the recording had been “illegally obtained,” and that it appeared to have been altered and may have violated a state law prohibiting secret recordings by third parties.
The Willinghams have already turned the audio over to the FBI and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Jones said earlier.this week he believes they were upset by “stories we’ve run that cast the sheriff’s office in an unfavorable light.”
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