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Mike HubbardFormer Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard should spend five years behind bars, according to the prosecutors who got him convicted on 12 counts of violating state ethics laws. Given that...
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Luther Strange sought 50-year sentences in an ethics-law case two years ago,...
Deann StoneThe Alabama Attorney General's Office, under Luther Strange, last week recommended that former House Speaker Mike Hubbard receive five years behind bars for his conviction on 12 counts of...
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Is Donald Trump's reluctance to release his tax returns related to possible...
Pam Bondi and Donald TrumpA Massachusetts attorney is calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a criminal investigation of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and...
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How does Mike Hubbard face $1.6 million in restitution and fines after...
Jessica Medeiros Garrison and Luther StrangeThe State of Alabama is asking a circuit judge to impose more than $1.6 million in restitution, fines, and fees on former House Speaker Mike Hubbard, who was...
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With Alabama taxpayers on the hook for Robert Bentley's legal fees in Collier...
Rebekah C. Mason and Robert BentleyA legislative committee yesterday approved contracts for up to $200,000 in legal fees for Gov. Robert Bentley and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) chief Stan...
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Mike Hubbard receives a hideously lenient sentence today, and that might be...
Mike HubbardThe Mike Hubbard case always has been about more than the 23 counts of ethics-law violations against the speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives. In a big-picture sense, it's been...
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The trial of former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard suggests confederate...
Mike Hubbard(From wiat.com)The Mike Hubbard trial, on the surface, was about 23 charges of Alabama Ethics Law violations -- with a Lee County jury finding Hubbard guilty on 12 counts. But from a...
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Pre-trial hearing for one-time gambling kingpin Erik Davis Harp, on...
Erik Davis HarpA pre-trial hearing in the concealed-weapon case of Erik Davis Harp has been continued until December in Bay County, Florida, court.Harp once was a business partner with Jessica Medeiros...
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Here's flip side of police brutality cases like the recent ones in Louisiana...
Protests continue over the police shootings of Alton Sterlingand Philando CastilleThe police shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castille in Falcon Heights,...
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Murphy Abigail Shuler (1993-2004):The real schnauzer who inspired a blog.Within the past year, three major political figures in Alabama -- U.S. Judge Mark Fuller, gubernatorial advisor/mistress Rebekah...
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The process that led to Gov. Robert Bentley appearing before a grand jury...
Gov. Robert Bentley (center) heads to the grand juryroom in Montgomery on Wednesday(From alreporter.com) What impact has Legal Schnauzer had on the legal and political landscape of Alabama? We...
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Newsbud, a new venture in independent journalism, makes Legal Schnauzer part...
Sibel Edmonds, founder of NewsbudI recently was honored to be asked to discuss the latest in the Don Siegelman case, on what I hope will become a major voice in American journalism. The new venture is...
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Judge Madeline Haikala's botched decision to throw out criminal charges...
Sureshbhai Patel(From washingtonpost.com)(Second post in a series)The ambush killings yesterday of three police officers in Baton Rough, Louisiana, has placed such hot-button status on issues related...
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I was arrested one day after writing about Jessica Garrison's purchase of a...
House at 119 Main Street in Mountain Brook, AL(From trulia.com)Most people who get arrested probably have at least some idea of why it happened. I have the distinction of being arrested on Oct. 23,...
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Ashley Madison customers revealed: Health-care exec Michael E. Stephens, the...
Michael E. Stephens speaks at his alma mater,the University of Montevallo(From montevallo.edu)A health-care executive, who is the man behind one of Alabama's most expensive homes, is among paying...
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As Robert Bentley becomes the focus of an Alabama grand jury, the management...
Bed bugs(From ohio.gov)Whenever something bad happens to Gov. Robert Bentley in Alabama, it seems someone tries to make something bad happen to my wife, Carol, and me in Missouri. Is that a...
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About the only news from the Republican National Convention came when former...
Michael Mukasey at GOP Convention(From abcnews.com)This week's Republican National Convention (RNC) might have been the biggest waste of air time in the history of television. Do citizens want to see...
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Sovereign immunity should not protect Bentley in lawsuit from former ALEA...
Spencer Collier, with Robert Bentley (background, left)(From al.com)Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has refused to answer discovery in a lawsuit against him, claiming that he is protected from suit by the...
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With the Republican Party of "family values" in town, Cleveland male escorts...
(From nypost.com)Last week's Republican National Convention (RNC) probably was a horror show for rational citizens who still have hope for our country. But a certain class of folks -- gay male escorts...
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Dispute over trust funds in the Atlanta-based family behind Orkin Pest...
An illustration of the Rollins family(From forbes.com)A dispute about trust funds in one of the South's wealthiest families will go to a jury trial. A trial court in Atlanta had dismissed claims from...
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