VINITA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Oklahoma state and local officials joined American Heartland leadership to announce American Heartland Theme Park and Resort, a more than $2 billion entertainment ...

Roughly two years after the developers announced plans to construct a Disney-level attraction in Vinita, Oklahoma, investors now say the effort to build American Heartland Theme Park has "fallen apart ...

The future of the highly publicized American Heartland theme park is now in doubt after its primary investor filed a federal lawsuit accusing the project’s developers of fraud, racketeering, and ...

A 91-year-old entrepreneur claims he fell victim to a “campaign of deception” to invest in the $2 billion American Heartland Theme Park. On July 25, attorneys representing O. Gene Bicknell filed a ...

A lawsuit filed on July 25, 2025, alleges that American Heartland officials, Richard Silanskas, Larry Wilhite, and Stephen Hedrick, worked together to defraud O. Gene Bicknell, a 91-year-old man, out ...

They took him for a ride. A devoutly religious 91-year-old widower was bamboozled into dumping $60 million into an Oklahoma theme park by alleged fraudsters — who posed as God and “commanded him” to ...

Sometimes, the wildest stories in theme parks happen behind the scenes. A federal court case in Oklahoma offers stunning allegations that promise to fuel industry cocktail party chatter for a ...

VINITA, Okla. — The American Heartland Theme Park investor filed a federal lawsuit accusing the project’s developers of fraud and racketeering. Gene Bickness filed the lawsuit on Friday, citing ...