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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,…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Secret Star Chamber, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Public Rips Idiotic Defense of Balch & Bingham
We never, ever thought it was this bad for Balch. The orchestrated public relations strategy of defending embattled law firm Balch & Bingham has backfired miserably and the public is ripping the idiotic defense of Balch. Last week, anonymous sources tried to defend Balch’s indefensible conduct, in a 1,500 word piece in the Alabama Political Reporter that promoted our website, the first salvo of a new orchestrated campaign to try to save the embattled law firm. But reaction by the public on social media has been unanimously against Balch. That’s bad; real bad. Here are just some of the blistering…
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Town’s Downfall Part 1: The Jaw-Dropping Photos
The jaw-dropping photos were in an unmarked envelope stuffed in ex-Drummond Executive David Roberson’s mailbox during Thanksgiving weekend last year. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, former Balch & Bingham partner and Alabama Power CEO Mark A. Crosswhite, and lobbyist Mike Cole were enjoying cocktails. We couldn’t believe it. Soon, after closely examining the photos, we confirmed they were taken at the Moon Shine Lounge at the Elyton Hotel in Downtown Birmingham. When we, the CDLU, received copies of the photos, we immediately dispatched our formal complaint along with copies of the photos to the Office of Professional Responsibility at the…
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CDLU Sparked Probe Forces Disgraced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town to Resign
Jay E. Town is out, abruptly resigning as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama today. On June 8, 2020, we, the CDLU, reported that Town was under scrutiny at the U.S. Department of Justice. The jaw-dropping photos, the secret deal with Alabama Power, the shenanigans about a half-baked deposition in the Newsome Conspiracy Case, and the blocking of not one but four F.B.I. investigations culminated in a formal complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice by us, the CDLU. We followed up with two additional packets of information and we told the Office of Professional Responsibility in our…
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Balch in Full Meltdown; Launches Publicity Campaign for CDLU and BanBalch.com
BanBalch.com is a success because of Balch & Bingham’s own self-inflicted failures. And now Balch has launched a publicity campaign to add to the list of stupid moves. The Alabama Political Reporter published a wonderfully long piece on us, the CDLU, and this website, BanBalch.com today. We texted Bill Britt, the editor and writer of this 1,500 word post, applauding through emoji and telling him, “Thank you for the enormous publicity. As Will Rogers said, ‘I don’t care what the newspapers say about me but spell my name right.'” And what does Britt’s story really declare after all is said…
