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Why Did Mike Tracy Become Disloyal to a Friend and a Colleague?
[This post was originally published on July 22, 2019. Now that civil court proceedings in the Drummond case are moving forward tomorrow morning, questions remain to be answered. Drummond, like other former Balch clients, needs to demonstrate sensible independence from Balch. Tracy abruptly “retired” a year ago, but his alleged actions are still stunning.] Drummond Company President Mike Tracy vowed unequivocally to back his friend, his co-worker David Roberson a year ago, releasing the following statement: We are disappointed by the jury’s decision to convict our employee, David Roberson. While we respect the judicial process, we consider David to be…
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Balch Partner Deflated Before Federal Judge David Proctor
In January before the pandemic exploded and stay-at-home orders were issued, the talk of Birmingham legal circles was how a Balch & Bingham attorney was deflated before the Honorable R. David Proctor, a federal judge in the Northern District of Alabama. Balch & Bingham partner Sean W. Shirley (pictured above, left) was attempting to have another attorney Glenda Cochran (pictured above, right), a colorful and respected member of the bar, disqualified. According to transcripts of the hearing, Balch’s partner had the audacity to call Cochran’s conduct of speaking to a witness for over 10 hours on the phone and the…
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Stupidly Fighting to the Death for Balch & Bingham
Why would a silk-stocking law firm like Balch & Bingham defend this alleged conspiracy to the death instead of settling the matter? [This post was originally published on October 4, 2018. With the loss of millions in legal fees, the exodus of money-making partners, the termination by 18 of 18 major lobbying clients in Washington, D.C., and Balch’s reputation in shambles, this post is almost prophetic and most relevant today.] When we first read the Newsome Conspiracy Case court documents in late 2016, we thought Schuyler Allen Baker, Jr. a/k/a Notorious SAB was a young, junior attorney because of some…
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Balch Stooge Jay E. Town Flees as Probe Continues
Disgraced Ex-U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town resigned his office effective at midnight on July 15, 2020. Fleeing the corrupt cesspool in the middle of the night, Town’s statement of “wanting to spend more time with his family” is a stock-and-trade, bullshit excuse when political appointees are abruptly shown the door. Town was an ambitious political animal who spent decades building his image only to see his future crumble when photos were published of him chugging cocktails with former Balch & Bingham partner and Alabama Power CEO Mark A. Crosswhite at the Moon Shine Lounge. And what truly forced him to…
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Black Lives Matter: Was Fanning’s Anti-Racism Statement Just a Media Stunt?
An international grassroots effort in the Black community to hold Southern Company CEO Thomas A. Fanning accountable for hypocritically denouncing racism while utilizing the embattled and alleged racist law firm Balch & Bingham is now percolating. Two new videos are out on YouTube and generating buzz. Fanning’s June 6th statement denouncing racism in all its forms is questioned in both videos. “But sir, was this just a media stunt or a publicity circus?” The videos discuss items that this website has outlined including: The North Birmingham Bribery Scandal that suppressed African-Americans from having their toxic and contaminated property tested by…
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Saving Baby Natalia
While Balch & Bingham apologists were busy terrorizing the wrong family and amputating their brains, we were busy helping the sick and dying. In June, Baby Natalia was in need of a liver transplant but her boosters had only raised less than $25,000 of an $80,000 goal when COVID-19 caused fundraising efforts to collapse. We, the CDLU, vowed to help. We spoke directly with the CEO of the hospital and told her that the child had less than two months to live if the transplant did not proceed. We noted that everything was lined up including the donor and the…
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Balch & Bingham’s Humiliation
Who would want Balch & Bingham to represent them if Balch cannot bring legal matters to a close for the firm itself after 8 long years? So seriously, Balch & Bingham’s brilliant defenders thought the best tactic would be to try to smear an organization that has spurred multiple Civil Rights, state and local investigations, and three U.S. Congressional hearings by allegedly buying some fake protesters, a couple of yellow journalists, and a controversial “burn down Hoover” rabble-rouser? Balch’s humiliation has spurred hearty chuckles and gossipy whispers from coast to coast. From prestigious mega law firms to small two-partner firms,…
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Buffoons! Balch Stooges Terrorize Wrong Family at Wrong Address; Family to Move
Last week, we, the CDLU, had a joint phone call with federal and local law enforcement. We told them that we did not know if we should laugh or cry. We are shaking our heads in absolute disbelief. Are Balch & Bingham stooges really this stupid, really this incompetent? On July 4th, a van load of phony protesters attempted to stage a fake demonstration against the “white man” in front of the family home of our Chief Executive Officer. (More on the “white man” in a minute.) Problem is they terrorized the wrong family at the wrong address. The stooges…
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Going Bonkers! Balch Clowns Continue Publicity Campaign of CDLU
Bill Britt, the Executive Editor of Alabama Political Reporter, has provided yet another Thursday publicity piece on us, the CDLU, and has demonstrated unequivocally that the orchestrated campaign to defend Balch & Bingham as a victim is not resonating. Is Balch and Bingham’s leadership truly going bonkers? People who did not know who we were or this website now do. Britt, who pathetically writes about a public tax filing from 17 years ago, tries to smear our association with Civil Rights champion J. Patrick Rooney. Rooney has been dead for 12 years, for heaven’s sake! Showing he is not a…
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Balch Unhinged; Josh Moon Amputates Brain for Embattled Law Firm
Thank you Josh! Part of the orchestrated public relations campaign to try to rehabilitate Balch & Bingham’s image, Josh Moon wrote a publicity piece in the Alabama Political Reporter (APR) about us, the CDLU, and our Chief Executive Officer, K.B. Forbes, which means one thing, and one thing only: Balch is unhinged, seriously hemorrhaging, and cannot cope with their past transgressions. Moon was once an award-winning investigative journalist; now he sadly appears like another foolish Balch & Bingham apologist. After APR ran their original 1,500 word publicity piece defending Balch on July 9, the public ripped them apart for defending…
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Town’s Downfall Part 4: Shielding Alabama Power
Now that Town has been ousted, will investigations of Alabama Power, Balch & Bingham and other Balch stooges proceed ahead? And when will the other shoe drop? When will Crosswhite be forced to retire or resign? As the final post on the downfall of disgraced and now former U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, we focus on the inappropriate shielding of Alabama Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Company and the sister-wife of embattled law firm Balch & Bingham. In our request for a probe of Town, we wrote: During the criminal trial of Balch & Bingham partner Joel I. Gilbert…
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Town’s Downfall Part 3: The Newsome Conspiracy Case
Town’s true downfall was allegedly blocking the investigations of the Newsome Conspiracy Case at least four times. In a follow-up letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to supplement our original request of a probe of U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, we summarized the ugly truth: In our almost two decades of advocacy work, we have never, ever seen such an extreme miscarriage of justice as we have seen done against Burt Newsome, a father of four children, who allegedly was wrongly targeted, falsely arrested, and defamed by Balch & Bingham. Jay E. Town should have let the FBI probe…
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Jeff Sessions, Balch & Bingham’s Zombie, Loses Horrifically
Former U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions lost his run-off election tonight horrifically, a symbolic extinguishing of the flame of the zombies tied to Balch & Bingham and Alabama Power. The results are devastating. Sessions lost big, garnering a mere 39 percent of the vote with 99 percent of the ballots counted. A pounding. A trampling. A whooping. As we wrote in March after the primary: Sessions was the symbolic figurehead of the resurgence, the “comeback” zombie of Balch & Bingham and their Siamese twin Alabama Power, who had hoped to once again walk among the most powerful. Now Sessions and his cronies…
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Town’s Downfall Part 2: Ending the Expanded North Birmingham Investigation
When U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town announced after their convictions that ex-Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert and ex-Drummond executive David Roberson were the lone wolves of the North Birmingham Bribery Scandal, observers including law enforcement were stunned. Most insiders (and the public in general) think the “lone wolves” theory is bull. With the convictions, law enforcement officials wanted to expand the probe to look at more individuals and entities, but Town shut it down. As we told the U.S. Department of Justice in our formal complaint: According to a report [in April of 2019] in The Washington Post, “Balch &…
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Keisha Brown: Caravan Against Environmental Injustice A Success; Balch Should Apologize
On Saturday, July 11, 2020, Keisha Brown, a resident of North Birmingham, in collaboration with the environmental group GASP, and the local advocacy group PANIC (People Against Neighborhood Industrial Contamination) organized the Caravan Against Environmental Injustice, which was deemed a success. “The main goal for years has been to bring attention to North Birmingham; local leaders have been overlooking us. We have visited with ADEM, City Hall, and other leaders about water, soil, and air contamination,” Brown said. “With all the problems with our contaminated water, soil, and air, residents are sick. We have a new cement plant coming; yet,…
