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African Americans Flee Balch & Bingham; Austin Office Left with Two Attorneys
The death spiral continues. After much fanfare two years ago, two African American attorneys have left the embattled and alleged racist law firm, Balch & Bingham. Kimano A. Edwards and Ikenna Okoro, two rising attorneys (pictured above) have dumped Balch. Both appear to have joined Balch in August of 2022, and lasted about 18 months. Edwards has joined Morgan & Morgan in Jacksonville, while Okoro left Balch’s Austin, Texas office. Joining Okoro’s exit out of Austin is Balch Partner Bryan J. Moore who was hired in June of 2022. Moore’s exit was in the past month and has now left…
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Auburn University President Inserts Infected Foot in Mouth ; Feds Briefed on Alleged Southern Company Money Laundering Scheme
Another bombshell investigative report by Lagniappe has created a stir and put Auburn University President Chris Roberts in boiling, hot water.🔥 The bottom line is that Alabama Power appears to be laundering money through the university to pay a controversial consultant and allegedly a number of other individuals and entities tied to the Southern Company Criminal Enterprise. Grilled by faculty at a Faculty Senate meeting, Roberts defended the $1 million a year contract with the obscure political consulting firm Matrix, LLC, founded by the Oompa Loompa of Alabama politics, Joe Perkins. Lagniappe reports: “I’d be happy to make a couple…
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Was Matrix Hired by Auburn University to Investigate and Smear Coach Bryan Harsin and his Family?
Was Matrix hired by Auburn to find cause to fire Coach Harsin and save $18 million? Investigative journalist Rob Holbert of Lagniappe has broken the hottest story in Alabama this week: Auburn University is paying diminutive political consultant “Sloppy Joe” Perkins, the Oompa Loompa of Alabama Politics, over $1 million a year in consulting fees through the controversial firm he founded, Matrix, LLC. Matrix, LLC and Perkins have been accused of allegedly orchestrating smear campaigns, allegedly conducting inappropriate surveillance efforts, allegedly paying off envelope journalists, and allegedly laundering money and pay-offs through a network of not-for-profit entities. Holbert writes: When…
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A Matrix Win? Alexia Borden Out at Alabama Power; Federal Probes Deepen
Did Alabama Power show unwavering loyalty to the diminutive political consultant “Sloppy Joe” Perkins? With the looming mandatory retirement of Alabama Power Chairman and CEO Jeff Peoples, Alexia Borden, Senior Vice President, has left the embattled utility to become Executive Vice President at Brasfield & Gorrie, one of the largest construction firms in the United States. Borden joined the construction company in January, but no official announcement has been made. Anonymous sources contacted us today to give us a heads up of the latest developments. We always thought that Alexia was an honorable person and that, as a successful and…
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And Then, Only One Was Left…
In March of 2018, embattled law firm Balch & Bingham announced the hiring of seven attorneys, three partners and four associates, in Jackson, Mississippi to “enhance [Balch’s] healthcare capabilities.” Balch did a full-court press and public relations blitz just weeks after a massive exodus of money-making and seasoned partners who left the firm. Balch rolled out their names and photos (above) with enthusiasm trying to counter the hemorrhaging: [Balch]Â announced the addition of partners Tom Kirkland, Allison Simpson and Andy Lowry, and associates Mary Jordan Fuller, Matt Sitton, Perry Taylor and Bea Tolsdorf. All of them specialized, according to Balch,…
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Imploding? Top Balch & Bingham Partners Flee; Houston Closure a Crushing Blow
Is Balch & Bingham on life support? Near death? Is the government pork trough of Mississippi and Southern Company’s unholy allegiance keeping the firm alive? The legal circles are on fire 🔥 speculating about Balch’s future after the once prestigious and feared law firm shut down their Houston office, as we were the first to report last week. Now even more damning news: Balch legacy partner Brandon N. Robinson of Birmingham has fled the firm after 15 years and has jumped ship to Maynard Nexsen. Robinson is a leading and respected legal expert on cybersecurity and privacy. Two top Balch…
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Texas Meltdown! Balch Closes Houston Office; Austin Crumbling; Rising Star Flees Montgomery
Balch & Bingham is in a Texas meltdown and has shut down their Houston office. Balch’s website has removed Houston from their footprint. As we reported last month, Balch & Bingham partner Audrey F. Momanaee, who unexpectedly became the Office Managing Partner in Houston last June after four top partners and attorneys fled the firm, left the firm herself after eight months. The news out of Austin is no better in that four Balch attorneys remain. In 2021, Balch predicted they would grow to 25 to 30 attorneys in the Lone Star State. Instead, Balch looks like they have collapsed. The Texas…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Bought and Paid For! Southern Company Criminal Enterprise Buys Civil Rights Advocates and African American Activists
In January, Refuge In Troubled Times Community Development Corporation held its fourth candlelight vigil in Birmingham to memorialize the murdered victims of violence. AL.com reported: Brenda Paige Ward, founder of Refuge In Troubled Times, said her goal is to bring the community together and set a path for change. “We need to come together in unity and do something about all of the deaths, and the murders, and the homicides and all of the things that are going on around our city. This is our city and we have to do something for our children,” Ward said. Ward created the…
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Mississippi Controversy, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Dumb Career Move! Former Mississippi Speaker Joins Balch Firm with Two Former Attorneys Currently Sitting in Federal Prison
A former speaker, a child predator, and a money launderer enter a bar near the Pearl River… The former Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives has made the dumbest career move. Philip Gunn has joined Balch Policy Advisors, LLC, a subsidiary of embattled law firm Balch & Bingham, according to news reports today. Gunn joins the firm of the former esteemed Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert, federal inmate 35504-001, who was convicted in 2018 of bribery and money laundering among other crimes in the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal. He also joins the firm of the former eight-year Balch attorney…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Whores of Babylon! Southern Company’s Grip on Alabama Media, Smear Sites, and Paid Stooges Affirmed
The Guardian has published a damning investigative report by Floodlight that shows unequivocally that Southern Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Alabama Power has allegedly bought, manipulated, and infiltrated media coverage throughout the State of Alabama. The Guardian writes: For decades, Alabama Power has sowed influence across the state, according to interviews with more than two dozen former and current reporters, civil rights activists, utility employees and environmentalists. What’s happening in Alabama is an example of how special interests have taken advantage of the diminishing reach and influence of shrinking mainstream newsrooms in the US. In their place have sprung up fake “pink…
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Elderly Exploitation Scandal, Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Balch & Bingham’s Managing Partner in Houston Dumps Firm After 8 Months
Balch & Bingham partner Audrey F. Momanaee, who unexpectedly became the Office Managing Partner in Houston, Texas last June after four top partners and attorneys fled the firm, has now herself left the embattled law firm. The exodus of Momanaee leaves Balch’s Houston Office with only one full-time attorney. How embarrassing! We are not surprised as Balch has lost numerous legacy partners and seasoned professionals, only to be replaced by inexperienced junior attorneys. So desperate for experenced attorneys, Balch rehired and pulled a former partner out of retirement to join the firm last August. Globe Newswire reports: Blank Rome LLPÂ is…
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Drummond, Mississippi Controversy, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
We’re Back! Get Ready for Retirements, Resignations, Regulatory Investigations, More Alleged Racism, and a Rebirth of the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal.
Happy New Year! After a brief hiatus, BanBalch.com is back. A lot of news is happening in the background and the Southern Company criminal enterprise appears to be trying to clean up (or cover up) their trail of carcasses and human excrement in their million-dollar campaign of fear and intimidation against innocent families, minorities, and us, the CDLU. Balch & Bingham, the embattled and alleged racist law firm, is still in turmoil as Managing Partner Stan Blanton gloats about make-believe diversity awards while promoting four all-white attorneys as partners this month. Southern Company CEO Chris Womack has hit, and Alabama…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
A Year Later: A Prelude, Not an Aftermath, as Southern Company Faces the Music
A year ago, the embattled CEO of Alabama Power Mark A. Crosswhite was ousted in disgrace. The surveillance efforts and scandalous acts of the Southern Company criminal enterprise were exposed in the public arena. A few days after the announcement, we, the CDLU, received anonymously spreadsheets and documents outlining how Southern Company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the summer of 2020 attacking us, the family of our CEO, K.B. Forbes, and Burt Newsome and his family. Both Forbes’ and Newsome’s young children were targeted and at times cried in fear by the foolish acts paid for Southern Company.…
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Jax Axe? Balch Partner Krechowski “Old Enough to Know Better”
Civil Rights champion Ernesto Pichardo, who won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision for Civil Rights and religious freedom in 1993 against the City of Hialeah, demanded today that the Jacksonville City Council table the appointment of Patrick Krechowski to the Downtown Investment Authority Board of Directors. “Patrick Krechowski is a partner at the alleged racist and embattled law firm of Balch & Bingham. Two former Balch attorneys are sitting in federal prison, now, today this very moment: one for bribery and money laundering; the other for possession of kiddie porn. As a partner, Mr. Krechowski cannot say he doesn’t…
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Mississippi Controversy, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
$1.1 Billion in Damages? Southern Company Sued for Alleged Fraud in Mississippi; Federal Probes Continue
The first shoe has dropped! As we reported in May of 2019, Southern Company was under federal investigation in Mississippi. An excerpt from four years ago: Atlanta-based Southern Company disclosed it is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over a power plant that already has caused the company years of heartburn and billions of dollars. Southern said it learned of the probe by the DOJ’s Civil Division on Monday and that it involved the Kemper County plant owned by the utility’s Mississippi Power subsidiary. The trifecta of alleged criminal misconduct by Southern Company done in Georgia, Alabama, and…
