OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 27, 2026--
MidFirst Bank presented a $25,000 check to Infant Crisis Services in support of their annual Boots & Ball Gowns fundraising event. The contribution underscores MidFirst Bank’s continued commitment to strengthening the communities it serves and supporting organizations that provide essential care to Oklahoma’s most vulnerable families.
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Boots & Ball Gowns is Infant Crisis Services’ largest annual fundraiser, raising critical funds to support its mission that no baby goes hungry. Proceeds from the event help feed and diaper babies and toddlers in 31 counties in Oklahoma.
“Supporting children and families during their most critical moments aligns closely with MidFirst Bank’s values to play an active, positive role in the communities where we operate,” said Todd Dobson, CEO of MidFirst Bank. “Infant Crisis Services plays a vital role in our Oklahoma community, and we are honored to support Boots & Ball Gowns and the meaningful impact this organization delivers every day.”
Supporting Oklahoma’s Children
Infant Crisis Services provides life-sustaining essentials to all children younger than four during times of crisis, serving as a lifeline for 25,000 babies annually. MidFirst Bank’s donation will help expand access to these essential services and ensure families continue to receive timely support when they need it most.
“Infant Crisis Services has flourished due to support from MidFirst Bank,” said Miki Farris, Infant Crisis Services co-founder and executive director. “MidFirst Bank volunteers have made a positive impact on the well-being of more than two thousand babies and toddlers in the past two years. MidFirst has sponsored many of our events, which helps to build awareness of our services and raise funds to feed and diaper as many little ones as we can. Their generosity has truly been a blessing.”
Community Commitment
MidFirst Bank has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to the greater Oklahoma City community through philanthropy, volunteerism and partnerships with nonprofit organizations focused on education and family support, health and research, arts and culture, environmental stewardship, economic development and civic leadership. MidFirst Bank has partnered with Infant Crisis Services for more than 18 years through sponsorships and employee volunteer events. Since 2024, MidFirst’s employees have volunteered over 240 hours, helping to keep nearly 2,700 babies and toddlers diapered and fed for a week. Supporting organizations like Infant Crisis Services further their mission of giving back to the communities it serves.
About MidFirst Bank:
With over $41.4 billion in assets, Oklahoma City-based MidFirst Bank is the largest privately owned bank in the nation and provides commercial lending, wealth management, private banking and mortgage servicing nationally. MidFirst Bank has locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. MidFirst Bank serves California through 1st Century Bank, a division of MidFirst Bank. For more information on MidFirst Bank and its charitable works, visit midfirst.com.
About Infant Crisis Services
Infant Crisis Services, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, provides life-sustaining food, formula, and diapers to babies and toddlers in times of crisis because no baby should go hungry. Founded in 1984, Infant Crisis Services is the only formula and diaper bank of its kind in the metro-area, serving more than 25,000 babies and toddlers in Oklahoma each year. Its unique BabyMobile ® program expands the mission into 31 counties across the state. In the organization’s 41 years of service, over 410,000 little ones have received essential items for their development, with the help of the community.
Image of MidFirst Bank volunteers at Infant Crisis Services
Image of Miki Farris and Todd Dobson shaking hands
Check presentation with (from left to right) Miki Farris (Executive Director of Infant Crisis Services), Carrie Yowell (Director of Charitable Giving, MidFirst Bank) and Todd Dobson (CEO of MidFirst Bank)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is testifying Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago.
The closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York, will mark the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress. It comes a day after Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sat with lawmakers for her own deposition.
Bill Clinton has also not been accused of any wrongdoing. Yet lawmakers are grappling with what accountability in the United States looks like at a time when men around the world have been toppled from their high-powered posts for maintaining their connections with Epstein after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to state charges in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
Hillary Clinton told lawmakers that she had no knowledge of how Epstein had sexually abused underage girls and had no recollection of even meeting him. But Bill Clinton will have to answer questions on a well-documented relationship with Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, even if it was from the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she expected her husband to testify that he had no knowledge of Epstein's sexual abuse at the time they knew each other.
Republicans were relishing the opportunity to scrutinize the former Democratic president under oath.
“The Clintons haven’t answered very many, if any, questions about their knowledge or involvement with Epstein and Maxwell,” Rep. James Comer, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, said Thursday.
“No one’s accusing, at this moment, the Clintons of any wrongdoing,” he added.
Republicans have wanted to question Bill Clinton about Epstein for years, especially as conspiracy theories arose following Epstein's 2019 suicide in a New York jail cell while he faced sex trafficking charges.
Those calls reached a fever pitch late last year when several photos of the former president surfaced in the Department of Justice's first release of case files on Epstein and Maxwell, a British socialite who was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021 but maintains she's innocent. Bill Clinton was photographed on a plane seated alongside a woman, whose face is redacted, with his arm around her. Another photo showed Clinton and Maxwell in a pool with another person whose face was redacted.
Epstein also visited the White House several times during Clinton's presidency, and the pair later made several international trips together for their humanitarian work.
In the lead-up to the deposition, Bill Clinton has insisted he had limited knowledge about Epstein and was unaware of any sexual abuse he committed.
“I think the chronology of the connection that he had with Epstein ended several years before anything about Epstein's criminal activities came to light,” Hillary Clinton said at the conclusion of her deposition Thursday.
Comer has pledged extensive questioning of the former president. He claimed that Hillary Clinton had repeatedly deferred questions about Epstein to her husband.
Democrats, who have supported the push to get answers from Bill Clinton, are arguing that it sets a precedent that should also apply to President Donald Trump, a Republican who had his own relationship with Epstein.
“We’re demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be deposed in front of Oversight Republicans and Democrats,” Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, said Thursday.
Comer has pushed back on that idea, saying that Trump has answered questions on Epstein from the press.
Democrats are also calling for the resignation of Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Lutnick was a longtime neighbor of Epstein in New York City but said on a podcast that he severed ties with Epstein following a 2005 tour of Epstein’s home that disturbed Lutnick and his wife.
The public release of case files showed that Lutnick actually had two engagements with Epstein years later. He attended a 2011 event at Epstein's home, and in 2012 his family had lunch with Epstein on his private island.
“He should be removed from office and at a minimum should come before the committee,” Garcia said of Lutnick.
Comer on Thursday said that it was "very possible” that Lutnick would be called to testify.
Follow the AP's coverage of Jeffrey Epstein at https://apnews.com/hub/jeffrey-epstein.
Demonstrators walk around outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center while awaiting the arrival of former President Bill Clinton who is testifying before U.S. House lawmakers as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, , Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Chappaqua, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, after testifying before U.S. House lawmakers as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, in Chappaqua, N.Y. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
FILE - President Clinton sits with first lady Hillary Clinton during a campaign rally in San Antonio, Nov. 2, 1996. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson, file)
FILE - Former President Bill Clinton speaks in the Cash Room of the Treasury Department during an event for the anniversary of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund,, Nov. 21, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
