NAACP President Files Complaint against Keating

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The president of the Oklahoma City Chapter of the NAACP on Wednesday filed a verified complaint against Gov. Frank Keating with the State Ethics Commission.

Unlike an unverified complaint, as Roosevelt Milton filed in February, a verified complaint requires only a majority vote of the five-member commission to launch an investigation. The panel must be unanimous in choosing to investigate an unverified complaint.

Milton was joined at a State Capitol news conference by Gordon Melson, former executive director of the Oklahoma Democratic Party. Melson, a former judge, is acting as Milton's legal adviser.

The complaint alleges that, by accepting $250,000 from …