As soon as the six guilty verdicts were handed down in July, Balch & Bingham immediately announced that Balch-made millionaire, ghost-writer extraordinaire Joel I. Gilbert was given a pink slip and no longer a partner at the firm.
Stan Blanton, managing partner at Balch, foolishly declared that “our firm was not a party to the case.”
Yet, everyone knows the bribery scheme, the invoicing, the bribery checks, the ghost-written letters were born at the offices of Balch & Bingham.
As easily as Balch & Bingham tossed Gilbert over the side of the bridge, will the same fate come to Robert M. Ronnlund?
Ronnlund works for another law firm, Scott, Sullivan, Streetman, and Fox, P.C, but is the spouse of a former Balch partner who is now an executive with a Southern Company subsidiary.
Ronnlund appears to have engaged in alleged criminal obstruction of justice and alleged alteration of evidence in the Newsome Conspiracy Case. We have been told these acts could emerge as key pillars in the civil RICO case being meticulously put together by Burt Newsome’s legal team.
Who is paying Ronnlund? What are the sources of these payments? Was he rewarded in any way for his alleged unscrupulous if not criminal conduct? What other letters, emails, or acts was Ronnlund engaged in to impede the Newsome case?
Like Gilbert, Ronnlund is a father of a young child.
But does having a young child really matter to Balch or the alleged co-conspirators? Do they even care about baby Ronnlund, the changing of diapers, or a sleepless night as the baby is teething?
The reality is awful to think about, but what kind of men would target Burt Newsome, the father of four young children, who was falsely arrested weeks after his premature twins were born, to allegedly steal his business?
As we wrote a year ago, Ronnlund’s alleged actions “exemplifies conduct unbecoming of a lawyer who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Alabama.”
Ronnlund has but only one choice to redeem himself: call the FBI now, today, this very moment. Call them. (205) 326-6166.
