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Newsome Conspiracy Case Enrages Balch’s Ego
[This post was originally published over a year ago on December 12, 2017. With expenditures now estimated to be in the seven-figures, the Newsome Conspiracy Case highlights gross injustice, abuse of the judicial system, and to some, a sign of sheer stupidity.] They say that anger is the enemy of logic. In our almost 17 years of doing advocacy work, we have never seen an entity like Balch & Bingham that is so defiant, so blind, so unrealistic, so angry over the Newsome Conspiracy Case that the matter has now impacted their reputation, their legacy, and their institutional integrity. Speaking…
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U.S. Congressional Investigations of “Massive Fraud”
U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN’s State of the Union yesterday there have been “several massive frauds against the American people. And it’s now our job, the job of the Justice Department…the special counsel, and the Congress to get to the bottom of this.” One massive fraud has been the abuse of the all three branches of government in the State of Alabama by using the “legal” system of pay-through contributions from the usual suspects to obtain access and signatures on cookie-cutter letters and official acts, while hiding behind non-disclosure agreements, attorney-client…
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Will Prosecutors Now Take a Closer Look at Balch & Bingham?
[This post was originally published on September 26, 2017, two-days before now convicted felon and then-Balch & Bingham partner Joel I. Gilbert was indicted. We now can say that U.S. Congressional investigators and national media, too, are taking a closer look.] The Alabama Political Reporter wrote about our site yesterday morning, driving traffic to our site up at least 250%. Besides law firms, we received identifiable traffic from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Alabama State Legislature, and several law enforcement agencies. Alabama Political Reporter wrote: [BanBalch.com] seems “to know much about Balch & Bingham’s internal activities. Someone’s spent a…
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Southern Company and Balch & Bingham’s Mockery
Southern Company and Balch & Bingham appear to not give a damn and are thumbing their noses at (or giving the bird to) you, us, and the justice system. Beyond yesterday’s news that Balch caved and finally admitted re-hiring Irving Jones, Jr., the Spy vs. Spy former counter-intelligence agent who so valiantly infiltrated GASP meetings and ghost-wrote letters for a ghost-writer extraordinaire, another headline shook Alabama yesterday afternoon. Criminal felon Dave Roberson, the Drummond Coal executive who along with ex-Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert were convicted on all six criminal counts including money laundering and bribery, was honored for his…
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Balch & Bingham Caves; Finally Admits Re-hiring Irving Jones, Jr.
Over three weeks of silence after we broke the story, Balch & Bingham has caved and finally admitted to re-hiring Irving Jones, Jr. with a news release posted yesterday evening. Jones will forever be known as the junior ghost-writer of the ghost-writer extraordinaire, convicted felon and ex-Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert. Of course, Balch’s fluff has no mention of Jones’ testimony during the criminal trial or how Gilbert told Jones to “dumb down” the ghost-written letters that Jones had written for African-American residents of North Birmingham. Jones, who boasts of having served as a counter-intelligence agent for the NSA, had…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Secret Star Chamber, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Corrupt State of Affairs in Alabama
We returned late Friday from a very insightful and productive trip to New York City and Washington, D.C. Our high-level sources tell us that with the local Jefferson County indictment of Balch & Bingham stooges Scott Phillips and Trey Glenn, pressure on the U.S. Department of Justice to take a deeper look at the corrupt state of affairs in Alabama has escalated—especially now that Jeff Sessions was ousted. The reporting to prison of bought-and-paid-for politician and former Alabama State Representative Oliver Robinson is scheduled for next week and shows how a Balch & Bingham partner corrupted the legislative branch in…
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Keystone Cops and Alabama Power
The profound (if not stupidly obvious) link between Alabama Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Company, and the Newsome Conspiracy Case was confirmed last night by investigators. What has Balch & Bingham brought upon Southern Company? Abuse under the color of authority? Trampling of Civil Rights and civil liberties? Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning knows what we are talking about. We gave him the details on October 25. Our Balch & Bingham sources told us that Balch, allegedly briefed about the link, was so flustered by the revelation last week they were searching for any public mention of the individuals…
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Balch Stooges Indicted
And Balch & Bingham thought it was all behind them. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Archibald writes: Trey Glenn, the head of the EPA for the Southeast region and a shill for polluters from way back, was just charged with crimes for his role in the toxic north Birmingham bribery scandal. And Scott Phillips, a former member of the Alabama Environmental Management Commission who took a contract from Balch & Bingham to help discourage cleanup of north Birmingham and prevent EPA expansion into Tarrant, was charged on the same day for related crimes. Phillips and Glenn were charged last week —…
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Balch Boasts of New Hires, Except Irving Jones, Jr.
As an insider told us: you can measure when you are beating Balch & Bingham not by their correcting a wrong but how much money and resources Balch and their unknown allies waste to allegedly avoid or attempt to derail the truth. AstroTurf efforts. A paid digital campaign. Public relations fluff. Orchestrated sabotages. Paid-in-full stooges and actors. Yesterday, Balch launched another salvo on the heels of their Chicken Legs Palooza public relations fluff. Trying to counter the reality that a dozen (known publicly) money-making partners have left the firm, the firm dispatched a news release that six new associates have…
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Was Southern Company Duped, Too?
[This post was originally published on April 20, 2018. As the link between Alabama Power and the Newsome Conspiracy Case solidifies with additional evidence, Balch & Bingham appears to have abused their close relationship with Southern Company’s subsidiary Alabama Power. Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning (pictured left) and Alabama Power CEO Mark Crosswhite (pictured right) must hold Balch accountable including partner Schuyler Allen Baker, Jr. (pictured center).] When a Drummond Coal company’s executive was indicted along with two Balch & Bingham partners for suppressing poor African-Americans from having their toxic property tested by the EPA in a $360,000 bribery scheme,…
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Balch’s Mess at the U.S. Department of Justice
From protests across the country demanding that Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III not be fired to revelations from The Wall Street Journal that Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was “a paid advisory-board member of an invention-promotion company shut down by federal regulators last year as an alleged scam,” controversy has engulfed the U.S. Department of Justice after Jeff Sessions was fired on Wednesday. But an even bigger mess has rattled the U.S. Department of Justice. Jeffrey H. Wood, the former Balch & Bingham lobbyist, who we victoriously blocked as a nominee for the Assistant Attorney General of the…
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How the Newsome Conspiracy Case Helped Bring Down Jeff Sessions
Even though he had spoken with the ambassador from Russia twice, Jeff Sessions never, ever has disclosed or discussed his relationship with Black Hall Aerospace or Balch & Bingham. We met Alabama attorney Burt Newsome for the first time almost two-years ago at a charity event. When we heard the incredible conspiracy tale of a wrongful arrest and the alleged attempt to steal his business, we were in disbelief. We reached out to Balch & Bingham in January of 2017 with emails and phone calls in an attempt to resolve the situation quietly and behind closed doors. Like Newsome, we…
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Sessions Ousted by Trump; Balch’s Investment Goes Belly-Up
When President Donald J. Trump was elected, media reports suggested Balch & Bingham was a big winner, going to make a windfall, and have the inside track to multi-million dollars in legal fees and lobbying efforts because of their close ties to then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions who was the first major elected official to endorse candidate Trump in 2016. Instead of growing with power and influence these past two-years, Balch appears to have plummeted in shame and disgrace. Sessions’ Department of Justice successfully prosecuted and convicted Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert on six criminal counts including bribery and money laundering.…
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Balch & Bingham Doesn’t Give a Damn; Re-hires Irving Jones, Jr.
“Lord have mercy!” declared one of the residents in North Birmingham when we told her the news. On Monday, our sources at Balch & Bingham gave us a heads up that Balch & Bingham had re-hired Irving Jones, Jr. the attorney who helped ghost-write letters for convicted felon and Balch-made millionaire Joel I. Gilbert. Jones also infiltrated GASP meetings and monitored the environmental group’s social media feeds. We wrote about his court testimony as reported by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Archibald: Gilbert also asked Jones to draft a confidentiality agreement relating to Oliver Robinson. Four days before Oliver Robinson was to speak to…
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Another Open Letter to Balch & Bingham Employees
This communication is for all employees at Balch & Bingham, but specifically for those outside the bubble of Birmingham, from Jacksonville to Jackson, from Atlanta to Mobile. How many more half-truths will you tolerate? We discovered in February that ex-partner and Balch-made millionaire Joel I. Gilbert was still on the payroll. Even though Gilbert had been removed from the firm’s website and placed on “indefinite leave,” the harsh words from Balch management when the indictments were handed down appear to have been all a facade. Gilbert was not handed a pink slip until that Friday evening in July when he…
