Do black lives matter to executives at Southern Company? Not when they can...
Tom Fanning The chief legal officer for Atlanta-based Southern Company, parent firm of Alabama Power, says he found nothing "inappropriate" after reviewing documents related to a Balch Bingham bribery...
View ArticlePhotographic evidence emerges to suggest Verizon used an imposter in...
Jason Forman, of VerizonA newly released photo indicates the Verizon "employee"who testified in a deposition for the Burt Newwome Conspiracy Case is not a company employee at all. The photo (see above)...
View ArticleJoann Bashinsky, of Golden Flake fame, regains control of her own finances,...
Joann Bashinsky (center)Joann Bashinsky, heiress to the Golden Flake Snack Foods fortune and one of Alabama's most admired philanthropists, has regained control of her financial resources after an...
View ArticleDoug Jones ignores criminal investigation at Austal USA as he decries Mobile...
Austal USA shipyard in MobileU.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) recently voiced displeasure with the U.S. Navy's decision to award a shipbuilding contract to a Wisconsin company over a bid from an Alabama...
View ArticleTrump appointee Jay E. Town resigns as U.S. attorney for Northern District of...
Jay Town (left) and Alabama Power CEO Mark Crosswhite.Jay E. Town has resigned as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, sources tell Legal Schnauzer(LS).Town, a Donald Trump appointee,...
View ArticleMuck-raking reporting that exposes elite B'ham law firm draws critical...
Jay E. Town stunned the Birmingham legal community on Friday by resigning as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. The move from the Trump appointee came three days after the Web site...
View ArticleMaryland company's Intranasal vaccine candidate, called AdCOVID, shows...
A vaccine candidate for COVID-19 is showing promising results in preclinical trials at UAB, according to a statement from drugmaker altimmune, of Gaithersburg, MD. From the statement about a drug...
View ArticleRogue judges run rampant around the country, but many of them escape...
Marquita Johnson (Reuters)It must be impossible to write an article about court corruption without focusing on at least one Alabama judge. That seems to be the take-home lesson from a piece at Reuters...
View ArticleHigh-traffic areas in Rome, Georgia, courthouse present an opportunity for...
Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, GAHave courthouses become primary hothouses for spread of the coronavirus? Evidence from some locales suggests the answer is yes. The Floyd County Courthouse in Rome,...
View ArticleFormer Drummond exec seeks order from Alabama Supreme Court, compelling...
Tamara Harris JohnsonA former Drummond Co. executive is asking the Alabama Supreme Court to force a Jefferson County circuit judge to rule on motions in his $75-million lawsuit that alleges his former...
View ArticleAs public officials consider defunding police departments, here is a reminder...
Officers from the LA County Sheriff's DepartmentA number of municipalities around the country are giving serious consideration to some form of defunding police departments. But an article from The New...
View ArticleDespite criticism from Trump and Gov. Mike Parson, Missouri prosecutor has...
Mark and Patricia McCloskeyThe governor of Missouri doesn't like it and the president of the United States doesn't like it, but Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner got it right yesterday when she filed...
View ArticleTales of intrigue from Tommy Gallion: An intrepid attorney, with deep...
Shadow Government, Southern Style: A Saga of Political Corruption From D.C. to Dixie (2020), by Thomas T. Gallion III; available from Amazon and Kindle eBooksTommy Gallion's Shadow Government might be...
View ArticleAlleged gunman in shooting at New Jersey home of federal judge Esther Salas...
U.S. Judge Esther SalasThe alleged gunman in the shooting of a federal judge's family -- killing her son and critically injuring her husband -- had ties to Russia and left an extensive string of...
View ArticleAttorney John P. McKleroy, who helped seek guardian for Joann Bashinsky in...
John P. McKleroy A veteran lawyer, who helped file a petition for a guardian or conservator in the probate case of Birmingham philanthropist Joann Bashinsky, has a conviction for domestic violence in...
View ArticleIn an avalanche of errors, fake protesters appear in Birmingham neighborhood...
Protesters at the wrong house in a Birmingham neighborhoodA group of mostly black fake protesters recently appeared at a suburban Birmingham neighborhood, apparently with designs on terrorizing a...
View ArticleTales of intrigue from Tommy Gallion: An intrepid attorney, with deep...
Shadow Government, Southern Style: A Saga of Political Corruption From D.C. to Dixie (2020), by Thomas T. Gallion III; available from Amazon and Kindle eBooksTommy Gallion's Shadow Government might be...
View ArticleMartin Gugino, the 75-year-old activist in Buffalo, NY, has a fractured skull...
Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old activist who sustained a fractured skull (and could not walk for a time) when he was shoved to a concrete sidewalk by police in Buffalo, NY, has been released from a...
View ArticleWhen police brutality comes home: Studies show that law-enforcement officers...
Cops do not just bully and brutalize individuals on the street; they also engage in domestic abuse -- with wives, significant others, and kids the victims -- at roughly 15 times the rate in the general...
View ArticleTales of intrigue from Tommy Gallion: An intrepid attorney, with deep...
Shadow Government, Southern Style: A Saga of Political Corruption From D.C. to Dixie (2020), by Thomas T. Gallion III; available from Amazon and Kindle eBooksTommy Gallion's Shadow Government might be...
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