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Tackling Environmental Racism and Pollution
Today, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved the nominations of Merrick Garland as U.S. Attorney General and Michael Regan as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Alabama Power, Drummond Company, and Balch & Bingham, the Three Stooges who draped themselves around the Trump Administration and Balch Zombie Jeff Sessions, will now have to face the loud and thundering music. Alabama Power and its CEO Mark A. Crosswhite had the audacity to claim they were victims of the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal and went a step too far in claiming they had “no involvement in these matters.” Now the U.S. Department of…
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Drummond, the Roberson Shooting, and Colombia
“At no time have we ever been involved in illegal activities or in relationships with illegal groups.” –Drummond Company We have always said that we have no bones to pick with Drummond Company. We believe the company was misled by embattled law firm Balch & Bingham and their convicted felon and ex-partner Joel I. Gilbert in the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal. We also believe former Drummond CEO Mike Tracy foolishly marched goose-step with Balch and made a mistake firing David Roberson when the company had vowed to stand by their loyal employee. Now comes the shooting at David Roberson last…
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Bombshell 1 of 2: Liars! Manipulation of Balch Invoices; Will Feds Re-Open Criminal Case?
Digital files of evidence from the North Birmingham Bribery Trial show that the federal government appears to have been given the manipulated Balch & Bingham invoice, not the original addressed to Blake Andrews. We have always known Balch & Bingham appears to have integrity issues when it comes to documents and billing records. In 2018, we wrote about how we could not find documentation in the billing records (obtained through the criminal trial) of the harassing letter to the tiny environmental group GASP from Balch-made millionaire Joel I. Gilbert dated December 1, 2014. We wrote at the time: It appears…
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Bombshell 2 of 2: Attempted Assassination of “Fall Guy” David Roberson
With glass blown exclusively inside the car, the projectile was obviously aimed at the driver’s side and missed Roberson’s head by inches. Sometimes we feel we are living in a John Grisham novel. As ex-Drummond Company executive David Roberson was driving along Highway 280 in Shelby County on Friday morning, someone apparently shot out his rear driver’s window in an alleged assassination attempt. Roberson was driving to his lawyer’s office. And what was Roberson dropping off? A slew of documents that appear to show that Drummond Company and their General Counsel Blake Andrews lied in civil court pleadings. Roberson appears…
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Confusion, Bribes, and the Fall Guy: Is Drummond Company Intentionally Seeking a Criminal Probe?
Why would Drummond Company ask ex-Drummond executive David Roberson about alleged bribes that have nothing to do with his $75 million lawsuit against Drummond? In a filing last week, Roberson replied to a list of admissions (and denials) that Drummond Company provided. But the reply about an alleged bribe to Balch & Bingham stooge and ex-U.S. Senator Luther Strange is causing a stir: As head of government affairs at Drummond, I never made or recommended any campaign contributions on behalf of the company that were a bribe and/or in any way illegal. The political contributions to Luther Strange were in…
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Biden Administration and Congressional Investigations of Alabama Power
Crosswhite and Alabama Power went a step too far. Southern Company has a problem and his name is Mark A. Crosswhite, the CEO of wholly-owned subsidiary Alabama Power and the former partner of embattled and alleged racist law firm Balch & Bingham. In 2016, two-years after being named head of Alabama Power, Crosswhite rejoiced in being the ultimate and final decision maker. Now, today, Crosswhite appears to be overwhelmed and unable to make decisions as he sought a protective order in ex-Drummond executive David Roberson’s $75 million lawsuit against Drummond and Balch & Bingham. In the 22-page Tale of Two…
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Drummond, Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Twenty Years Later, CDLU Continues Fight Regardless of Vicious Hate Crimes
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the founding of our public charity the Consejo de Latinos Unidos (CDLU). Co-founded by the late Hortensia MagaƱa and K.B. Forbes, our organization has worked tirelessly to provide a voice for the voiceless while taking on some of the most powerful but unscrupulous corporations and inept government agencies across the country. Our work these past two decades has provoked vicious hate crimes, and racist messages and emails. And in Alabama, the reaction is no different. BanBalch.com was a simple and bland website when launched by the CDLU in March of 2017 to help bring…
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Bombshell: Drummond’s Environmental Racism at Ketona Lakes Exposed
In one week, the Biden Administration enters office and the first order of business will be to investigate Drummond Company and the alleged secret toxic landsite known as Ketona Lakes. Will Biden’s EPA and U.S. Department of Justice force Drummond to finally atone for their sins? For over 35 years, the site of two former quarries has been hidden from public view. Located in Jefferson County, not far from North Birmingham and smack in the middle of the City of Tarrant, the Ketona Lakes are quarries now filled with water. The water is allegedly extremely contaminated and toxic. Sources tell…
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Special Message of Hope
To our dear readers, this is our last post of the year and we wish you and yours a most blessed and Merry Christmas and all the best in 2021. We will return in January. The CDLU is busy not only fighting corruption and abuse of the judicial system, we continue helping the sick and the dying while spurring new projects that fight against unsavory corporations. For several months now, we have been investigating deplorable abuses in the financial sector that should spur international headlines sometime next year. To our friends and readers at Alabama Power, Drummond Company, and Balch…
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Eye of Federal Investigators? Crosswhite, Drummond Family, and Balch’s Biggest Stooge
All that was missing was a brown paper bag. On Friday evening, 48 hours after the original filing, the Alabama Supreme Court denied Drummond Company’s emergency motion to stay discovery in ex-Drummond executive David Roberson’s $75 million civil lawsuit. Depositions, production of documents, and discovery shall proceed in the rebirth of the North Birmingham Bribery Case. The uncontrolled panic continues. Let’s be frank: the rebirth has created a stir because the smelly and decaying skeletons are about to come out of the closet in relationship to alleged dirty bribes, corruption, and collusion. Sources tell us that Alabama Power’s outside criminal…
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Rebirth Causes Uncontrolled Panic in Past 48 Hours; Scrutiny Escalating
We are not surprised by the uncontrolled panic exhibited by Drummond Company and Alabama Power in the past 48 hours caused by the rebirth of the North Birmingham Bribery Case. But still, the developments are stunning. On Wednesday evening, Drummomd Company filed an emergency motion to stay discovery in the rebirth case with the Alabama Supreme Court before the local judge in Jefferson County had even ruled on their emergency motion. Drummond attempted to leap-frog local jurisdiction. Earlier that day, Alabama Power and Alabama Power CEO Mark A. Crosswhite objected to discovery and intent for deposition requests by Roberson. In…
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The Drummond Saga Gets Thicker at Every Turn; Possible Criminal Indictments?
The Admissions and Denials by Roberson indicate more stones need to be overturned. Last week, we, the CDLU, strongly suggested that Balch & Bingham, Drummond Company and Alabama Power look at the rebirth of the North Birmingham Bribery Case from a long-term, bird’s-eye, big picture perspective. According to well-read legal blog Legal Schnauzer, Drummond Company dumped a slew of discovery requests on ex-Drummond executive David Roberson. Included in that dump, Drummond hit Roberson with a request for admissions, and the answers appear to be earth shattering. Schnauzer posted some of the admissions and answers, writing: Admit that during your employment…
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Robersons Victims Again; Drummond Tries to Stall Rebirth for the Third Time
A desperate move by Drummond? David Roberson originally filed his $75 million lawsuit in the spring of 2019. More than a year and a half later, Judge Tamara Johnson denied Drummond Company’s Motion to Dismiss and their follow-up interlocutory motion. The rebirth of the North Birmingham Bribery Case has shaken the most powerful players in Alabama. Today, Drummond Company filed a Writ of Mandamus with the Alabama Supreme Court and an Emergency Stay to block discovery and depositions in the most anticipated civil case for 2021. Drummond, which has foolishly tried to cross-dress the coal company as a law firm,…
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Drummond, Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Secret Star Chamber, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Looking Like Fools on the Path of No Return
We have reviewed the 149 letters of support during ex-Drummond executive David Roberson’s sentencing hearing and nothing compares to psychiatrist Mark J. Mills who evaluated Roberson and wrote: In more than thirty years of full-time forensic practice, I have evaluatednearly 1000 criminal litigants for both the prosecution and the defense (and many civil litigants); unsurprisingly, most were guilty (as determined at trial or plea), some were psychotic, some cognitively impaired, some terminally ill, some intoxicated and some malingering. A few were innocent as determined at trial and a very few, less than a handful, well less than one percent, were…
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Balch & Bingham’s Inner Demons
Balch & Bingham’s foolish publicity stunt last week trying to appease their inner demons of alleged racist misconduct and a legacy tied to segregation and racist Alabama Governor George Wallace has blown-up in Balch’s face. Balch’s all-white leadership has failed again. In the two-decades that we, the CDLU, have fought against greedy and unscrupulous businesses, and inept government agencies, we have always found that a handful of bad apples are responsible for the calamities and egregious conduct at those entities. Balch & Bingham is no different. And look at what they have done: The North Birmingham Bribery Scheme was born…