Drummond: Baseless ClassWallet lawsuit continues to waste tax dollars
OKLAHOMA CITY (Dec. 12, 2025) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond late yesterday filed a motion to withdraw from the ongoing ClassWallet litigation, a step prompted by ClassWallet’s decision to move for dismissal. Drummond said the development underscores what he has argued from the beginning: the lawsuit is frivolous, destined for dismissal and unsupported by any credible evidence.
"This lawsuit was baseless from the outset," Drummond said. "ClassWallet has been incorrectly blamed for the failures of the Stitt administration, whose irresponsible appointments and lack of oversight led to questionable expenditures and processes surrounding $31 million in funds intended to help families with their educational expenses during the pandemic. Every credible review of this matter has made that clear. The only question now is why hardworking Oklahomans should have to continue funding these pointless and expensive lawsuits — tax dollars that could instead be invested in our schools and infrastructure.”
The ClassWallet litigation reaffirmed the findings of both federal and state auditors, which determined that state officials were responsible for the misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal relief funding, not the vendor. The results of these comprehensive audits clearly and unequivocally attributed these failures to Stitt’s administration.
Despite the clarity and repetition of these findings, Stitt’s office has continued to pour exorbitant sums into multiple failed lawsuits on the matter, Drummond said.
"If the Governor were truly concerned about recovering misused dollars, he would hold accountable those actually responsible for the oversight, starting with his own office and his hand-picked Secretary of Education," he stated. "Instead, he insists on spending excessive amounts of state dollars on lawsuits he has already been told he cannot win.”
Drummond said the likely outcome is the same now as it has been since the litigation began. "No one will be shocked when this case is dismissed," he stated. "But unfortunately, the state of Oklahoma and its hardworking taxpayers will have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on this charade of a lawsuit."
