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Then, some of Oklahoma City's mainstream psychologists counterattacked. Sternlof complained to the State Board of Examiners that Barkouras was practicing psychology without a license. Barkouras' successful defense: he was a lay analyst and needed no license...
...result, Barkouras claims, he acquired a powerful enemy. Chris Delaporte, who has been involved in Oklahoma politics for eight years, helped get his friend Larry Patton named U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma in 1977. Another friend of Delaporte's is Boren, who was elected a U.S. Senator...
When a fire caused $185,000 damage to Sternlofs Timberridge Institute in 1979, Patton asked a grand jury to investigate. A juror told TIME: "They said Barkouras was the Jim Jones of the Oklahoma City jet set. I never really knew what they were trying to get him on. Our grand jury was on a kind of witch hunt...
...homosexuals. In Boren's case, it was an old charge-and one that he denied during his Senate campaign by publicly swearing, on a white-bound Bible, that he was heterosexual. Barkouras took no further action, but a few weeks later Jack Anthony, 28, an heir to an Oklahoma department-store fortune and a student of Barkouras', was arrested at 4 a.m. while changing a wiretap connected to Sternlofs home phone. Soon afterward, traveling in seven cars, 14 FBI agents went to Barkouras' foundation to seize records. At a preliminary hearing an assistant to Patton shouted, "Anthony...
Meanwhile, all lay analysts have been barred by the state legislature from practicing in Oklahoma. Observes Miskovsky, Marga Barkouras' attorney: "Football, politics, oil and sex are all considered sports in Oklahoma. Barkouras gave people something to talk about because he was playing in all of them. Except football." -By Ellie McGrath. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/Oklahoma City