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Racial Reckoning: Will Southern Company’s Institutional Investors Terminate Balch?
Now is the time for institutional investors to bring an end to institutional racism. The conviction of Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd is the first step in the fight for justice and equality, and against systemic racism in law enforcement. While America let a sigh of relief that justice had been served, the fight against inequality, racism, and the abuse of People of Color has only just begun. Southern Company, the sister-wife of Balch & Bingham, has funneled millions of dollars to an alleged racist law firm, Balch & Bingham, which among a list of alleged unsavory,…
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AG Garland: “Same Kind of Hatred” Fuels Criminal Acts
Speaking to ABC News yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland discussed the “same kind of hatred” that was behind the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 and the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995: racism and white supremacy. Garland was one of the prosecutors in Oklahoma City in 1995. In the post-Balch era, the environmental racism and “same kind of hatred” behind the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal and alleged secret Ketona Lakes site will bring even more federal scrutiny in the coming months. The Three Stooges (Balch, Alabama Power and Drummond Company) played their cards in December showing the sheer nervousness and uncontrolled…
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More Window Dressing? Balch & Bingham Hires D&I Officer
With one percent of their partners being people of color, Balch & Bingham’s institutional racism is blatant. In February, after two years of being skewered for letting go of their only African-American female attorney in Birmingham who headed diversity efforts at Balch, the embattled law firm hired Brandi Russell as their first-ever Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer earlier this year. In January 2018, Balch hired Steve Feaga as their first-ever Chief Compliance Officer and we applauded Balch’s decision at the time calling him a pillar of integrity. Two-years later Feaga was out. Not a word was ever heard from him…
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Tied Up and Pinned: Alabama Power Stooge Tumbles in Disgraceful Sex Scandal
On Wednesday, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill lied about engaging in a scandalous sex affair. After raunchy texts and audio recordings were released yesterday, he admitted to the “tie-her-up-and-bite-me” affair of three years and dropped out as a U.S. Senate candidate. Merrill is a long-time Alabama Power stooge having received over $13,000 in political contributions from the Alabama Power Employees State PAC. In December, Merrill honored “the most powerful man in Alabama” Mark A. Crosswhite, the CEO and Chairman of Alabama Power, with an award for keeping the lights on during election night. The awards ceremony was a ridiculous…
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Round 1: “Unfinished Business” Against Three Stooges Mounts
As we predicted last year, the sheer and uncontrolled panic of Alabama Power, Balch & Bingham and Drummond Company with the possible rebirth of the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal would provoke an avalanche of investigations and probes under a new administration and congressional leadership. The Three Stooges were utter fools. Round one: the national media are investigating and putting pressure against Drummond Company. In an extensive piece in E&E News on environmental justice, Drummond’s deal for its polluting ABC Coke Plant in North Birmingham is now under scrutiny. E&E writes: But what happened — and didn’t happen — next tells…
