“It Is What It Is”

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has suspended an attorney as a result of a guilty plea

[the attorney] entered a plea of no contest to one count of Publishing, Distributing or Participating in Obscene Material, and one count of Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance,

The Daily Mail had this story about the attorney in February 2013

An Oklahoma lawyer has been charged Tuesday with offering to reduce a female client’s legal fees in exchange for having sex with the woman and her two teenage daughters. 

According to police, attorney Jeremy Oliver, of Wynnewood, sent his client text messages proposing to give her a $1,000 discount for sexual favors and/or nude pictures of the older girl, and $500 off for the 13-year-old.

When officers went to arrest Oliver Monday, a search of his home on South Johnson Lane turned up marijuana and several hundred naked photos depicting women, suggesting that there may be other victims out there, according to Garvin County Sheriff Larry Rhodes.

 The 33-year-old attorney has been under investigation for weeks, NewsOKreported. On Sunday, law enforcement officials were with his client when Oliver allegedly sent her a text message asking for sex with the girls and their lewd pictures.

 According to authorities, the attorney also sent his client a photo of his genitals.

 Police said that following his arrest, Oliver never denied the text messages or the drugs in his apartment, instead summing his predicament with the words, ‘It is what it is.’ 

Native American Times reported on the plea and sentencing 

A former attorney general for two western Oklahoma tribes was put on probation Wednesday after prosecutors dropped a felony charge stemming from accusations of reducing a client’s legal fees in exchange for sex with her underage daughter.

Chickasaw Nation citizen Jeremy Oliver, a resident of Wynnewood, Okla., received two years’ probation after pleading no contest to distributing obscene material and possession of marijuana.

According to the initial arrest report, Oliver offered via text message in February 2013 to reduce a client’s fees in exchange for nude photographs or sexual favors from the client’s 13- and 17-year-old daughters, as well as sexual favors from the client. Oliver also sent an obscene photograph of himself to the client while making the request. A search of his home at the time of the arrest uncovered several pounds of marijuana and several hundred nude photographs.
Despite having text messages that showed Oliver asking his client for a threesome with her daughter, prosecutors dropped a felony charge of soliciting sexual conduct with a minor via technology as part of a plea bargain. Garvin County District Attorney Greg Mashburn told the Daily Oklahoman Wednesday that the evidence “didn’t shake out” the way his office had intended.

Oliver was the attorney general for former Cheyenne and Arapaho claimant governor Leslie Wandrie-Harjo’s administration for more than two years. Prior to his appointment, he was the general counsel for the constitutionally-bound tribes’ legislature.
According to his LinkedIn account, Oliver is also the former attorney general for the Caddo Nation, headquartered in Binger, Okla.

Now that Oliver has a criminal conviction, his license to practice law in Oklahoma could be suspended by the state’s Supreme Court. He has been practicing law in Oklahoma since 2008.

Oliver could not be reached for comment Thursday morning.

The suspension is effective until final discipline is imposed. (Mike Frisch)