Study: Nick Saban remains college football's highest paid coach, but not by much | AL.com

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Do Kevin Sumlin and Texas A&M want more money? #Yessir! - USATODAY

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Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully to miss postseason after procedure - USATODAY

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Rangers power tops Blue Jays, take 1-0 lead in ALDS - USATODAY

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USA TODAY Sports college football staff picks for Week 6 | USA TODAY Sports Wire

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Two of a kind: Astros are the new Royals - USATODAY

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College football coaches piling up more cash through bonuses - USATODAY

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Pirates only have themselves to blame for one-and-done postseason - USATODAY

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5 things to watch in the Cubs-Pirates NL Wild Card game | For The Win

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Steve Jobs' widow begged Leonardo DiCaprio not to take Apple boss biopic role | Daily Mail Online

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MLB postseason schedule, matchups, TV times - USATODAY

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Bowl projections: Alabama, Clemson jump into playoff spots | USA TODAY Sports Wire

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Bret Bielema on Bryant-Denny Stadium: 'Nothing prepares you for this venue' | AL.com

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Inside ex-Alabama running back Kerry Goode's battle with ALS | AL.com

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Duke Williams punched 4 people during rampage at Auburn bar, witness says | AL.com

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Brennan: Hardy remains unapologetic, yet will be cheered on Sunday. Sigh - USATODAY

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For the new Yankees, this is what success looks like - USATODAY

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Dallas Keuchel brilliant; Astros beat Yankees to advance to ALDS - USATODAY

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» Matt Drudge: Copyright Laws Could Outlaw Linking to Websites Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

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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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McDonald's Launches All-Day Breakfast: Why the Meal Is Key in Fast-Food Wars - NBC News

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McDonald’s all-day breakfast may be cheaper than the ‘Dollar Menu & More’ - MarketWatch

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Meet the Right-Wing Rebels Who Overthrew John Boehner | Rolling Stone

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AD not 100 percent sure South Carolina will host LSU game - USATODAY

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Auburn dismisses wide receiver D'haquille Williams - USATODAY

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UPDATED with Video: Ken Curtis Assaulted By Dothan Commissioner :: RickeyStokesNews.com!

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Commissioner Amos Newsome hits WTVY reporter Ken Curtis in the face - Dothan Eagle: Local

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Nightengale: CC Sabathia confronts a problem rooted deep in his past - USATODAY

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Childcare costs more than rent and college in majority of US states | Daily Mail Online

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11 trillion gallons of water fell in the Carolinas in the past week - USATODAY

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S.C. flood is 6th 1,000-year rain since 2010 - USATODAY

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Video: Tammy Was In Rare Form Again Today On The Finebaum Show | College Spun

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'Losers do that type of stuff': Finebaum, Spears talk Alabama-Georgia pregame scuffle, Tide's big win | AL.com

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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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Cutting the Cord: Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embraces streaming options - USATODAY

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Butch Jones gets heightened scrutiny with Vols reeling | USA TODAY Sports

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A very good move: Braves’ Coppolella promoted to GM | Mark Bradley blog

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Nationals fire manager Matt Williams - USATODAY

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American Airlines captain dies at the controls despite efforts to save him | Daily Mail Online

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Nick Saban got a 'little emotional' in locker room after Georgia win | AL.com

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Auburn's bye week an opportunity to 'catch our breath,' says Malzahn | AL.com

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Bernanke: More Bankers Should Be in Jail - The Daily Beast

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Clay Matthews mocks Colin Kaepernick: ‘You ain’t Russell Wilson, bro’ | For The Win

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Death toll rises to 9 in unrelenting S.C. storm - USATODAY

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MLB postseason schedule, matchups, TV times - USATODAY

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South Carolina Flooding: 5 Dead, Curfews Ordered, Hundreds Rescued, Several Interstates Closed - weather.com

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NFL Scores & Schedules - USATODAY

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Misery Index Week 5: Truly awful in Austin - USATODAY

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Flooding sweeps East amid 'mind-boggling' rains - USATODAY

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NCAA Football - Amway Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

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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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Job Growth is Driving Demand and Prices Up - Fortune - People Slept Outside Just to Buy a House in McKinney Texas

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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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