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Wednesday, October 07, 2015
For the new Yankees, this is what success looks like - USATODAY
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Sports artist Daniel Moore is working on painting 'The Washout' | AL.com
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The quiet brilliance of Alabama RB Derrick Henry | AL.com
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UPDATE - Dothan Police Arrest Commissioner Amos Newsome - WTVY
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UPDATED @ 5:22 PM VIDEO of Newsome Arrest - Ken Curtis Signs Warrants On Dothan Commissioner Amos Newsome :: RickeyStokesNews.com!
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Monday, October 05, 2015
S.C. flood is 6th 1,000-year rain since 2010 - USATODAY
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Joe Biden 2016: Campaign announcement could come this weekend - POLITICO
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Nick Saban blasts the media for burying Alabama in fiery press conference | For The Win
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Yankees' Alex Rodriguez: 'We play for CC now' - USATODAY
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Bernanke: More Bankers Should Be in Jail - The Daily Beast
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Death toll rises to 9 in unrelenting S.C. storm - USATODAY
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Sunday, October 04, 2015
MLB postseason schedule, matchups, TV times - USATODAY
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NFL Scores & Schedules - USATODAY
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Flooding sweeps East amid 'mind-boggling' rains - USATODAY
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Epilogue - Governor Bentley, Alabama's "Counterfeit" Leader - By Donald V Watkins
Epilogue – Governor Robert Bentley, Alabama's"Counterfeit" Leader
By Donald V. Watkins
©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on October 4, 2015
Beginning on September 4, 2015, we published a series of articles titled, "Forbidden Love" and "Executive Betrayal". These articles disclosed a flaming love affair between Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and Rebekah Caldwell Mason, his married paramour and senior political adviser. The love affair was underwritten by taxpayers, donors to the governor's campaign organization, and contributors to a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation that Bentley used as a slush fund to sponsor his personal affair with Rebekah.
Infidelity between two married "Christian" lovers is a moral and religious issue. The use of state and federal funds along with donor money to carry on and conceal the affair is a criminal matter.
Bentley's case is dripping with evidence of wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and racketeering violations under federal law, among other charges. At the end of the day, Robert Bentley is nothing more than a marital cheater and "run-of-the-mill" crook who sponsored his illicit love affair with taxpayer dollars and donations to various organizations.
Now that our series of articles have been published, we have begun the tedious task of preparing a prosecution memorandum for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. All of the information and evidence gathered by our Facebook news team during the course of our year-longinvestigation will be chronicled and sent to Washington, along with a request for a thorough criminal investigation by seasoned federal prosecutors. The memorandum will outline (a) the potential criminal charges, (b) the facts supporting each charge, (c) the documents undergirding each charge, and (d) the witnesses with relevant testimony regarding each count.
We will recommend Kastigar letters (offering limited immunity from prosecution) for those individuals who were forced to participate in this criminal conspiracy and who do not lie to law enforcement investigators. We will recommend lenient treatment for original participants who later withdrew from the conspiracy and racketeering activities because of a sense of true remorse for their wrongful conduct. We will also recommend aggressive prosecutorial action against those individuals who continue to aid and abet the governor in operating this ongoingcriminal enterprise.
In the end, we will ask the Justice Department to treat the governor of Alabama in the same fashion it treated Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick was caught in a marital infidelityscandal.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick used taxpayers' dollars, campaign funds, and 501(c)(4) "dark money" to sponsor an illicit love affair with Christine Beatty, his chief of staff.
Like Bentley and Rebekah, text messages between the married Kilpatrick and Beatty captured their torrid love affair. The text messages leave a permanent electronic footprint.
Like Bentley, members of Kilpatrick's security detail had knowledge of his affair and tried to stop it.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick used exotic trips and "wining and dining" escapades to romance his lover, all on taxpayer and donor money.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick was highly leveraged and cash strapped. Yet, he romanced his paramour in grand style using other people's money.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick tried to cover up the affair and his misuse of taxpayer and donor money.
In February 2009, I voluntarily reported my knowledge of widespread public corruption within Detroit City Hall to a federal grand jury. I was not a "subject" or "target" of any criminal investigation. I was not a subpoenaed witness or a person testifying under a grant of immunity. I was simply a lawyer and officer of the court who witnessed this corruption first hand and reported it. I received a standingovation from grand jurors at the conclusion of my testimony.
Since my grand jury testimony, more than 33 city officials and individuals associated with the public corruption scandal in and around Detroit City Hall have been indicted, convicted, and sentenced to prison for mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, bribery, misuse of public funds, money laundering, racketeering, and other charges.
Kilpatrick is now serving 28 years in prison. The city's former treasurer was convicted of corruption charges last December and was sentenced to eleven years in prison last month. The former general counsel for the city's two pension funds was convicted on public corruption charges last year but died before his sentencing. The mayor's paramour was sentenced to 120 days in jail for lying about the affair.
Like the Detroit public corruption case, I have an affirmative duty to report Bentley's corruption as well, and I will.
Like Kilpatrick, Bentley is a "counterfeit" public leader who has betrayed the public trust. Those individuals who continue to cover for Bentley will go down with him. If Rebekah Mason lies about her affair with Bentley and the "dark money" transactions, she will go down as well.
In the end, all the public wants is equal justice and respect for the rule of law.
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Saturday, October 03, 2015
No Blackout for Georgia, but a damp squib - Mark Bradley - AJC
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Mark Richt? Good coach. Nick Saban? Great coach - Mark Bradley - AJC
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No. 23 Florida upsets No. 5 Ole Miss 38-10 - USATODAY
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Nationals' ace Max Scherzer throws no-hitter vs. Mets - 2nd No Hitter this season - USATODAY
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No. 13 Alabama wipes out No. 6 Georgia 38-10 - USATODAY
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Heavy rain pounds South, floods historic Charleston, S.C. - USATODAY
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Friday, October 02, 2015
The Meck Report: 2015 college football TV schedule - USATODAY
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Gov. Bentley's Chief of Staff Resigns - Donald V Watkins via Facebook
Bentley's Chief of Staff Resigns
By Donald V Watkins
Seth Hammett, Governor Robert Bentley's chief of staff, has resigned his post. The governor announced Hammett's departure today with the praise and fanfare needed to mascara this surprising defection.
Hammett exited the scene at the governor's office because he was not confortable with the growing scandal that has ensnared the governor and senior political advisor, Rebekah Caldwell Mason.
Hammett was one the staffers Bentley dispatched to get troopers on the security detail to sign confidentiality statements as word of the love affair spread. Lieutenant Wendell Ray Lewis refused to sign one.
Hammett knows that the entire Bentley-Mason scheme to defraud state and federal taxpayers, as well as the misuse of donor money by Bentley's campaign committee and non-profit organization, will be presented to the Justice Department in Washington. He also knows that Bentley and Mason have lawyered up in anticipation of a criminal investigation into wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and racketeering charges. Hammett is leaving this dangerous playing field before he gets swept up in the governor's cover-up of misuse of campaign money and public funds.
Last month, we reported that Mike Echols, the governor's long-time personal CPA and heavy hitting moneyman for the Robert Bentley Campaign Committee, had split from Bentley. Echols, who handled the financial books and records for both the Bentleys and the Campaign Committee, resigned his post over a disagreement with Bentley about Rebekah, who is also the governor's mistress and married paramour.
The precise nature of this dispute, which occurred several weeks ago, is not known at this time. What is known, however, is that Bentley wanted Echols to do something questionable with the financial records relating to Rebekah. The governor's request did not sit well with Echols, a respected Tuscaloosa accountant and well-known PAC organizer. During a heated exchange between the two men, Echols refused the governor's request and turned over the various checkbooks and financial records in his custody to Bentley. With this handover, the professional relationship between Echols and Bentley ended.
Echols had been Bentley's personal accountant for many years. He was also the Campaign Committee's treasurer in 2010 and 2014.
Hammett's departure from the governor's inner circle adds to a growing list of top staffers and supporters who have split with Bentley over his illicit love affair with Rebekahand his cover-up of the misuse of state resources and misspending of campaign funds. This list includes prominent officials in Bentley's Tuscaloosa church who have urged him, albeit without success, to break off the affair. The list also includes a staffer who reported Rebekah's misuse of state resources and misspending of campaign funds directly to the governor, and was chastisedfor doing so.
Others on the list of departures include former head of executive security Wendell Ray Lewis, chief legal advisor and consigliere David Byrne (who is hanging around until his successor is hired), a former executive employee at the state capitol who quit because of the Bentley-Mason affair, two of the three board members of the Alabama Council for Excellent Government (whose resignations are forthcoming), and several security officers (who are waiting to bolt from the mess created by this scandal).
More to come.
By Donald V Watkins
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