May 30, 2019
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
The trial of a Custer County Commissioner has been postponed until August.
Jerry Kurt Hamburger of Weatherford, orginally scheduled to go on trial on two misdemeanor charges Thursday, was postponed recently because one of the witnesses in the case couldn’t be found when the court tried to serve a subpoena.
Hamburger has been charged with personal interest of official in transaction and embezzlement of public money.
The alleged embezzlement, a charged added in March, is thought to have happened between January and April of 2016, over two years before the the alleged action of the first misdemeanor.
Hamburger was originally charged in District Court on September 6, 2018 as the result of an investigation regarding what is thought to have been an attempt by Hamburger to do a commissioner in another Oklahoma county a favor.
Authorities believe that Hamburger allegedly profited by $300 as a result of the sale of surplussed county equipment to a Logan County commissioner in May 2017.
The original misdemeanor charge carried with it a penalty of up to one year in jail and/or a $500 fine.
Hamburger is due in court, next, on August 6 on the misdemeanor pre-trial docket.
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