TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Police filed a new felony charge against a Tulsa bride-to-be accused of planning multiple weddings for herself, signing contracts and then refusing to pay for any of the services rendered to her.
According to new court filings, Morgan Newby faces a second felony charge of obtaining items or services valued at more than $1,000 through false pretenses or a con game. The new charge is directly linked to the circumstances mentioned in a viral Facebook post from Newby’s ex-friend and wedding photographer Bailey Buschelman (who is also known as Bailey Money).
Bailey posted on Facebook and TikTok last summer about being hired by Morgan to take engagement and wedding photos for Newby, but when she repeatedly requested payment, she was mailed empty envelopes, bank card transactions were halted and other means of payment never went through. Bailey said attempts to collect Newby’s debts were accompanied by multiple excuses, some of them extreme in nature about Newby being the victim of crimes or claims Newby or her child were seriously ill.
As FOX23 News has reported, wedding businesses across Tulsa and even some in Key West, Florida and St. Louis, Missouri said they had multiple interactions with Newby last summer as she planned multiple elaborate and lavish weddings for herself, signed contracts for service, and when services began to be rendered to her, she ghosted the venders when it came to payment.
Despite Bailey being based out of Omaha, Nebraska, Tulsa Police state in new court records because Bailey actually took pictures of Newby in Tulsa that she was never paid for, a crime took place in Tulsa that Bailey is the victim of. Because of the engagement photos Bailey took of Newby and her fiancé at Woodward Park in midtown Tulsa, that gives Tulsa Police enough jurisdiction to file a new and second felony charge against Newby for her unpaid bills.
Court records show police have a signed agreement Newby was planning to pay $1,200 total to Bailey to reimburse her for a plane ticket to Tulsa in addition to the engagement photo shoot. That total does not include another $6,500 spent when Newby hired Bailey to photograph a planned wedding in Key West, Florida that she also never showed up to.
Newby was already facing another felony charge of obtaining items or services of more than $1,000 through false pretenses or a con game in relation to another Tulsa business that printed her wedding invitations. That business is owed more than $3,500 in unpaid services to print invitations for a Tulsa wedding that would never come to fruition.
That local printer also has a small claims court judgement out against Newby which can be used to garnish her wages in the future and will collect interest until the ordered debt is paid off.
TPD Financial Crimes Lieutenant Andrew Weeden told FOX23 News that these unpaid debts are not simple misunderstandings, but multiple failed attempts to collect is what leads to a felony charge.
“Sometimes there’s misunderstandings. In this case, there was basically a time period of about three to four months where there were attempts to make the payment and all the attempts didn’t go through,” Weeden told FOX23 about the wedding invitations while also suspecting similar things have happened to others.
TPD financial crimes detectives are willing to talk to anyone who is owed money by Newby, but they insist, merely coming into contact with Newby while she was planning her weddings was not a crime. It is only if services were rendered, but they were never paid for is what they are seeking.
According to court documents, Newby was sent a notice by Tulsa Police to once again turn herself in to the Tulsa County Jail on her new charge. She is also expected to be formally arraigned next month in Tulsa County District Court.
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