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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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Balch, RICO, and “Terroristic Lawyering”
The headlines from Georgia in January were crushing: Federal Jury Finds Atlanta Lawyer Engaged in Civil Racketeering Georgia Lawyer Liable for Civil Racketeering in Child Custody Case Jury finds Millard Farmer engaged in civil racketeering And who won this civil RICO case? Buddy Parker, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, and renowned expert on civil RICO legal actions and money laundering. Parker is now representing Burt Newsome in his civil RICO action surrounding the conspiracy case allegedly spearheaded by a Balch & Bingham partner and relentlessly defended by Balch & Bingham in a corrupt and unconstitutional Star Chamber presided by Judge…
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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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Devastating $250 Million Civil RICO Suit
Although Balch & Bingham would rather eat fried chicken legs than deal with the deplorable conduct the firm’s partners have allegedly engaged in, forced change is coming. A civil RICO lawsuit on behalf of Burt Newsome could be filed on the eve of the sentencing of bought-and-paid-for-politician Oliver Robinson later this month, and the RICO suit could be devastating. Just ask State Farm. As reported by Bloomberg yesterday: State Farm agreed to pay $250 million on the brink of a trial to customers who claimed the company tried to rig the Illinois justice system to wipe out a $1 billion…
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Wall Street Analysts Learn about Possible RICO Suit; Targeting of Children
From Credit Suisse to Wells Fargo Securities, top analysts covering Southern Company are learning about the possible civil RICO suit involving Southern Company because of their sister-wife relationship with embattled law firm Balch & Bingham. Analysts learned that Southern Company’s subsidiary was one of the founding members of the entity that funneled $360,000 in bribes to corrupt politician Oliver Robinson. Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert was convicted for bribery and money laundering in the scheme. In addition, analysts learned about how Robert M. Ronnlund, the spouse of a Southern Company subsidiary executive, was involved in the Newsome Conspiracy Case and…
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Will Southern Co.’s Fanning Walk the Plank Because of Balch?
We believe Southern Company’s CEO Tom Fanning failed institutional investors and waffled on leadership when the utility giant refused to suspend their sister-wife relationship earlier this year with embattled law firm Balch & Bingham that engaged in alleged institutional racism in North Birmingham. Now revealed that poor African-American children were used (or abused) through free coat drives to peddle the repugnant objective of not having their family’s toxic property tested, institutional investors are listening. Last week, news reports declared that Southern Company had another cost overrun of over $1 billion in the construction of the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in…
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RICO Suave
When Southern Company’s CEO Tom Fanning was doing a triple toe loop performance at Southern’s annual shareholders meeting in Pine Mountain, Georgia last Wednesday, anonymous sources tell us that Burt Newsome’s legal team was up the road in Atlanta meeting with the nation’s foremost RICO attorney. This is an enormous development and may indicate that the wolves and vultures we wrote about in January could be investigating in detail the Newsome Conspiracy Case, the alleged corruption of the Alabama judicial system, and the unconstitutional and secretive Star Chamber. Schuyler Allen Baker, Jr., the lead Balch & Bingham partner defending the firm…
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A RICO Metamorphosis
The Newsome Conspiracy Case is in complete blackout. As we begin 2018, we have no idea if the case is even in trial or if they have picked a jury yet. But win or lose in the secretive Star Chamber, the Newsome Conspiracy Case could become a serious RICO case in federal court against the co-conspirators and Balch. The RICO Act can be used against respected businesses allegedly engaged in a pattern of specifically identified criminal conduct. RICO is a wide net designed to catch all of the members of a criminal enterprise, including those who ordered, aided or abetted…
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Wolves and Vultures
One of the most interesting contacts we received before Christmas was from a prominent lawyer on the West Coast who is interested in filing a possible RICO action centered on the questionable political contributions made to Alabama State Senator Rodger Smitherman, the husband of Judge Carole Smitherman who created the secretive and unconstitutional Star Chamber in the Newsome Conspiracy Case. This esteemed member of the bar filed one of the first RICO actions in the South decades ago, and has an expertise on RICO that is unmatched. In addition, we were approached by other attorneys who were seeking our insight…
