OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A former assistant Oklahoma attorney general says state criminal investigators should look into the hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded bonus payments former State Superintendent Ryan Walters paid his top staff during his time in office—following News 4's latest report this week exposing even more payouts. On Tuesday, News 4 reported Walters gave a $15,000 performance bonus to his executive assistant during his last week in office. That assistant attended McAlester High School when Walters was a history teacher there. Records also show Walters gave his press secretary—a staffer who’d only been on the job for two months—a $10,000 performance bonus in his final days. Those payments came on top of other large, unexplained payouts to political staff News

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