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 had no bones to pick with Balch & Bingham. Our beef was with the alleged unscrupulous conduct of Balch partner Clark A. Cooper, who allegedly spearheaded the Newsome Conspiracy Case.

Instead, Balch & Bingham ignored us and Schuyler Allen Baker, Jr., Balch’s dinosaur partner, decided to play hardball and allegedly manipulate the legal system in Jefferson County for Balch’s benefit.

But the untold story of how we provoked Balch allies and saw them jump is more interesting today now that Jeff Sessions was fired.

Two weeks after the President’s inauguration in early February of 2017, we overnighted a letter and package to Kellyanne Conway, an old acquaintance of ours having worked on healthcare reform years ago.

We asked the new Administration to ban Balch & Bingham from soliciting or lobbying the Administration because of the alleged conduct against Burt Newsome.

We intentionally sent a duplicate package (which included a detailed narrative and pleadings from the case) to Rick Dearborn, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and Jeff Sessions’ former Senatorial Chief of Staff.

We knew because of Dearborn’s close ties to Alabama (Dearborn maintains a residence in Birmingham) that he would most likely share the information with others and possibly even Balch & Bingham directly.

Because of Secret Service security screenings, the packages arrived 10 days later and immediately following the posting of our news release on February 15, 2017 calling on the recusal of Sessions from the Russian-collusion probe.

The news release detailed Balch & Bingham and Jeff Sessions’ ties to the Russian-linked aerospace company Black Hall Aerospace a/k/a AAL USA, Inc. owned for a time by Soviet-immigrant Oleg Sirbu and located in Huntsville. Balch had successfully changed Russian sanctions for the firm in late 2015.

We wrote at the time, “General Sessions is shrouded in a kosovorotka and should recuse himself. An independent special counsel is the only path forward.”

The tactic of mailing a duplicate packet to Dearborn appears to have  worked.

Oleg Sirbu’s attorneys contacted us days later and we met at the law offices of Burr Forman for an hour on February 28, 2017.

Two days later, on March 2, 2017, Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe while Balch & Bingham scrubbed their website of any reference to successfully changing Russian sanctions on behalf of Oleg Sirbu’s aerospace company.

The next morning, Friday, March 3, 2017, partner Clark A. Cooper was fired by Balch & Bingham.

Although the President was furious that Sessions recused himself and spurred a special counsel investigation two months later, Sessions had no choice.

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.

How did the CDLU find Black Hall Aerospace?

On Valentine’s Day 2017, the day after National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned for having lied  to Vice-President Mike Pence, we, by chance, searched Russia and Balch & Bingham on Google, and found their page boasting of changing  sanctions for a “fixed and rotary wing” aerospace company.

We then searched that terminology and found AAL USA, Inc. a/k/a Black Hall Aerospace. 

Just imagine if Balch & Bingham had called us back and resolved the Newsome matter:

• We would have never discovered the change of Russian sanctions or the Russian-linked aerospace company tied to Sessions and Balch.
• We would have never called for Sessions’ recusal.
• We would have never created this website.
• The abuse of the legal system and the creation of a secretive Star Chamber would never had happened.
• Alabama Power/Southern Company would not be potential parties in a civil RICO suit.
• Robert M. Ronnlund could sleep well at night.