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Is Ruining a Rival Ruining Balch?
[This post originally appeared exactly one year ago today on November 1, 2017. A Catch-22, any move made by Judge Smitherman or Balch on the 44 retaliatory orders will only solidify Newsome’s civil RICO suit. Now, today, Balch partners need to address the strategic failure of “ruining a rival.”] Schuyler Allen Baker, Jr., a Balch & Bingham partner who filed the amended motion for summary judgment in the Newsome Conspiracy Case, declared that Balch was justified in interfering in Newsome’s business and livelihood because the Alabama Supreme Court allowed “ruining a rival” in a 1961 decision. But that is untrue.…
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Future of Southern Company, Recusals and the RICO Suit
Never did Drummond Coal Company imagine that their executive, David Roberson, would be indicted, tried, convicted, and thrown in prison for two and a half years after receiving the best legal advice from Balch & Bingham. With the Vogtle Nuclear Plant billion-dollar cost overruns and Kemper Natural Gas Plant debacle in Mississippi, Southern Company surely does not need to be in the middle of a civil RICO case. And Tom Fanning, CEO of Southern Company, and Mark Crosswhite CEO of its subsidiary Alabama Power, are smart enough to get ahead of this debacle caused by Balch & Bingham’s foolishness. In…
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Balch & Bingham’s RICO Fiasco
The newly disclosed direct link between Alabama Power and the Newsome Conspiracy Case is solid and to those in the know a real black-eye. The civil RICO lawsuit being put together for Newsome could have serious repercussions not only for Balch & Bingham, but the Alabama judiciary system and some of Balch’s top clients, like Southern Company and Alabama Power. Allegedly, Balch abused their close contacts at Alabama Power to directly target Newsome. We apologize in advance for the vulgarity, but as one person with knowledge about the facts surrounding the direct link stated, “Is Balch really this fricking stupid?…
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Bombshell: RICO Attorney Links Alabama Power to Newsome Conspiracy Case
Now that one of Balch & Bingham’s former top partners will be reporting to prison for 5 years, the sleazy stigma of corruption, bribery, money laundering, honest services fraud appears to have heavily impacted the once prestigious firm and their high-profile clients. Sources tell us that Buddy Parker, the RICO attorney and former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who is meticulously and carefully putting together the civil RICO suit for Burt Newsome, and his legal team are thoroughly investigating each mundane detail of the case and have now found a solid, direct link between Alabama Power and the Newsome Conspiracy Case. The…
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Will Ronnlund Get the Gilbert Treatment or Call the FBI?
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…
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Three Blind Mice Join Balch & Bingham
Three blind mice. Three blind mice. See how they run. See how they run. They all ran after the farmer’s wife, who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life, as three blind mice? Three blind mice appear to have joined the silk-stocking law firm of Balch & Bingham. Balch was blind to the criminal acts of convicted felon and Balch-made millionaire Joel I. Gilbert and may have thought they were immune until the federal indictments were handed down last year by a Grand Jury and successfully prosecuted by Assistant…
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Collapse! Andy2K’s Law Firm Disintegrates
Andrew “Andy2K” Campbell, who was named lead counsel on behalf of Balch & Bingham in the Newsome Conspiracy Case earlier this year, is now in the middle of an ugly fight, seeing his own boutique law firm, Campbell Guin, LLC, collapse and disintegrate. His former partners and owners at the firm allege that Andy2K “failed to comply with operating agreements….has failed to distribute funds due and has further failed to provide an accounting thereof,” according to a lawsuit filed against Andy2K in August. Andy2K was the manager of two LLCs affiliated with the law firm, but according to the suit,…
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Massive Civil RICO Suit Coming by Early 2019
One of the key witnesses to the Newsome Conspiracy Case was allegedly told not to provide testimony or evidence and then was eventually and abruptly fired. Balch & Bingham has a severe headache coming. As Reuters wrote about a recent and devastating $250 million civil RICO settlement: The biggest difference between a John Grisham novel and the allegations in a racketeering class action State Farm settled Tuesday for $250 million is that Grisham would have had the insurance company buy off a state Supreme Court candidate with a briefcase full of cash. We learned that Burt Newsome has visited with…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham, Vincent Land Grab
Dying on the Vine? Balch and Alleged Racism
It’s killing them. Will Balch & Bingham vehemently deny the actions in North Birmingham, an area that is 92.5 percent African-American, are racist? Will Balch & Bingham vehemently deny the actions by former Balch partner and convicted felon Joel I. Gilbert and his paid stooges targeting poor black children and a school that is 95 percent minority were racist? Will Balch & Bingham rather die on the vine than acknowledge, apologize, and advance beyond the ugliest chapter of their almost 100-year history? With the new foolish LMAO campaign to try to justify Gilbert’s criminal conduct and the targeting of poor…
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Balch Reaches Out to CDLU
In August, Balch & Bingham met with a highly-respected RICO attorney (and former Assistant U.S. Attorney) representing Burt Newsome. What initially, we were told, was an effort to get the matter for all parties “behind them” ended up turning into an additional hour about us, the CDLU, and this website. The RICO attorney appears to have been blind-sided. He did not know much about us or details about the site, although he knew of the existence of the site. He agreed to reach out to us as an interlocutor. Balch was indeed seeking to settle the Newsome Conspiracy Case if…
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Balch versus Blacks and Blue-Collar Competitors
This post originally posted on February 6, 2018. Now with the aftermath of the conviction of Balch & Bingham partner Joel I. Gilbert, we have updated the post in purple. We, the CDLU, continue to visit regularly with the North Birmingham community. The institutional racism in North Birmingham is real. With a population that is 92.5% African-American, the criminal actions by convicted Balch & Bingham partner Joel I. Gilbert is repugnant. As we now have visited the neighborhoods in North Birmingham multiple times, we took a look at Mountain Brook, the elite enclave where many of Balch & Bingham’s partners…
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Explosive New Evidence: Balch Linked to Birth of Newsome Conspiracy
Seier’s entity was interacting with Balch & Bingham six-months before he pulled a gun on Newsome. Since the Newsome Conspiracy Case began to be litigated over three years ago, the co-conspirators have repeatedly said they did not know each other. Now, we have discovered explosive evidence that someone appears to be lying. Perjury, some would say. According to these public records, Alfred Seier was one of three initial members of a company called Southshore Development, LLC. Alfred Seier, who pulled a gun on Burt Newsome in January of 2012, is the late brother of alleged co-conspirator Claiborne Seier, an attorney…
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Sick: Newsome Family Sent Threatening Package
You would think the thugs behind the alleged targeted break-in of the vehicle driven by Burt Newsome’s wife were beyond stupid in this day of high-definition video surveillance and phone tracking software. But now come the real sick, idiots who sent the Newsome family a threatening package: Five pieces of luggage and numerous clothing outfits. There were approximately three dozen outfits for mom and the young Newsome children. The message was crystal clear: get ready to pack and leave town. Were they threatening the family? The father, Burt Newsome? Was he going to be injured, killed or murdered? Or were…
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Newsome’s Wife Targeted and Burglarized
Last week, we were very surprised to see a post from last year about Balch & Bingham slapping Burt Newsome’s wife with a subpoena being read a couple times. So long ago, so stale, so irrelevant today, who would want to read old news? Our sources confirmed someone at Balch & Bingham was allegedly reading the post, among numerous menu items under the “Burt Newsome Case” tab. We assumed someone at Balch was looking outside the box at all the foolish mistakes that turned a simple matter, the Newsome Conspiracy Case, into a legal quagmire. With a RICO civil suit…
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Robinson and Smitherman: Parallel Scandals
Besides the fact that former State Representative Oliver Robinson’s district overlapped State Senator Rodger Smitherman’s district, the parallel scandals share many elements, unsavory conduct, and a cast of dubious characters. In his Writ, Burt Newsome argues powerfully about the familiar, similar type of conduct: laundering money to a politician, utilizing political connections, and working with clients (like Drummond Company) in what appears to be a coordinated effort to manipulate the legal system. The new, big emerging parallel comes from Judge Carole Smitherman who implicated her entire family during an angry outburst at a hearing on a motion calling for her recusal. Does this…
