Sunday, August 06, 2017
Saturday, August 05, 2017
Important Notice Regarding The Megan Rondini Rape Case - Donald V Watkins
Dated: August 5, 2017
The family of Terry Jackson "Sweet T" Bunn, Jr., has devised a plan of action to shut down all news articles written by me on the Megan Rondini rape case and published on my Facebook page.
Reportedly, the Bunn family has hired Boston attorney Howard M. Cooper to work behind the scenes to get Facebook to shut down my Facebook page. Cooper specializes in representing public officials and other clients who feel like they have been defamed by media outlets.
"Truth" is a complete defense to any defamation claim.
The Bunn family strongly believes that my reporting in Megan's rape case is: (a) tarnishing the family's name, (b) hurting business for ST Bunn Construction Company, (c) straining relationships with the public officials who were bought with the family's laundered campaign contributions, and (d) embarrassing the family's friends and flunkies at The University of Alabama.
The family's money and clout have anesthetized Alabama's mainstream news media organizations. They are not conducting any investigative reporting on what has evolved into the largest cover up of an alleged crime by law enforcement officials in Alabama in five decades.
The family's death-grip on state and local public officials has prevented all of them from publicly standing up for Megan Rondini. Their solution to Megan's rape case is to ignore it.
The family's donations to the University have bought the president's and board of trustees' allegiance to the Bunn family. These officials have chosen the acceptance of Bunn money over the safety and security of the University's female students.
Facebook has not contacted me about my reporting on the Megan Rondini rape case. No attorney has contacted me to demand a retraction of any fact I have reported in this case.
In the four years I have been engaged in investigative journalism, no individual who has been the subject of my news reports has ever demanded a retraction or correction relating to any story published. The sources for my news stories on the Megan Rondini rape case and subsequent law enforcement cover up are well positioned to provide pertinent information about the case. They have also proven to be very reliable and credible.
In the unlikely event Facebook bows to pressure from the Bunn family and shuts down my page, I have co-published all of my Megan Rondini articles on David Meck Meckley's website: themeckreport.com.
David Meckley is a Dothan-based online journalist who has worked with me to co-publish my exclusive series of news stories about former federal judge Mark Fuller's wife-beating conduct and his sexual exploitation of female employees in the Montgomery federal courthouse. Fuller was forced to resign after these stories were published.
David Meckley also co-published my 2015 exclusive "Forbidden Love" and "Executive Betrayal" series of articles that detailed former governor Robert Bentley's illicit love affair with Rebekah Mason and his misuse of taxpayers' money, campaign contributions, and "dark money" to underwrite the couple's jet-setting romance. The April 2017 Alabama House of Representatives' official Impeachment Report mirrored everything about the Bentley-Mason love affair and cover up that was first reported two years earlier in "Forbidden Love" and "Executive Betrayal".
The Impeachment Report also confirmed that Governor Bentley specifically targeted me for harassment by law enforcement and regulatory agencies. The Alabama Political Reporter independently confirmed the same. Because Bentley was the "Chief Magistrate" of Alabama, every state and federal agency with investigatory powers responded to the governor's call and investigated my personal and business affairs, from top to bottom. None of these investigations has been successful in proving any wrongdoing on my part.
David Meckley has international media relationships. His collective body of journalistic work is respected around the world. He contributed to the London-based Daily Mail's recent investigative stories on the Megan Rondini rape case.
David Meckley is the bravest investigative journalist I know. He is "unbought" and "unbossed". He also has a backbone of steel.
David truly respects and values men and women as human beings, regardless of their ethnicity, socio-economic status, or their station in life.
I do not believe the Bunn family's "shutdown" strategy with Facebook will be successful. In the unlikely event that it is, I will continue to publish my "breaking news" stories in Megan Rondini's rape case at David's website: themeckreport.com.
Stay tuned.
Friday, August 04, 2017
Exclusive: Sweet T Benefits From "Homecooking" In Megan Rondini’s Rape Case - Donald V. Watkins -The Bunns have also hired a powerful Montgomery-based public relations firm to work with the Tuscaloosa News in developing a “hit” piece on Megan Rondini, who committed suicide after Sweet T escaped a prosecution for rape. The records sought by Sweet T’s motions are needed as source materials for the upcoming article.
Open Letter to T.J. "Sweet T" Bunn, Jr. Tuscaloosa, Alabama - Donald V. Watkins - The unfortunate incident that happened to Megan Rondini at your home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on the night of July 1, 2015, has brought us together.
Donald V. Watkins: The Bunns believe they can get away with molesting Megan Rondini in death
https://www.facebook.com/donald.v.watkins/posts/10213773495713770
Donald V. Watkins The Bunns believe they can get away with molesting Megan Rondini in death because they have already anesthetized Alabama's mainstream media, its entire body of law enforcement and public officials, and The University of Alabama trustees and president. The only in-state source for "breaking news" in Megan's case is this online Facebook page. The Bunns are actively trying to get Facebook to shut down my page. The Tuscaloosa News "whored" itself out by accepting Bunn family ad money to publish an attack ad on a dead woman who accused Sweet T of rape. This is the "hardball" Sweet T promised Megan if she didn't drop her rape charge against him.
Donald V. Watkins: The Bunns have also hired a powerful Montgomery-based public relations firm to work with the Tuscaloosa News in developing a “hit” piece on Megan Rondini
https://www.facebook.com/donald.v.watkins/posts/10213773495713770
Exclusive Breaking News---
Sweet T Benefits From "Homecooking" In Megan Rondini's Rape Case
By Donald V. Watkins
©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on August 4, 2017
©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on August 4, 2017
Yesterday, Attorney Ivey Gilmore, Jr., the attorney for Terry Jackson "Sweet T" Bunn, Jr., filed a consolidated "Motion to Intervene and Motion for Release of Public Records" in the July 1, 2015, Megan Rondini rape case. In short, Sweet T was seeking official access to the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Department files and medical records in Megan's rape case.
Earlier this year, the Estate of Megan Elizabeth Rondini, Deceased, filed a petition in Tuscaloosa Circuit Court against the Sheriff's Department and DCH Regional Medical Center to acquire Megan's medical records and law enforcement files in her rape case. The case was assigned to Judge M. Brad Almond, who eventually granted the Estate's request.
Sweet T was seeking intervention in this case. In support of his Motion to Intervene, Gilmore alleged that Sweet T has been sued in a federal court action and that he "needs the public records so that he may defend the allegations asserted in the Federal Court action." Gilmore omitted any reference to the undisputed fact that Sweet T, as a defendant in the federal court proceedings, is entitled to all of the public records sought as part of the federal litigation process. Hence, these records would have been provided to him during the ordinary course of the federal court litigation.
Gilmore filed Sweet T's consolidated motions at 9 a.m. on August 3, 2017. Without any prior notification to Megan's Estate or a hearing on the motions, Judge Almond issued an order granting the motions exactly 46 minutes after they had been filed. In "street" language, this kind of action is characterized as "homecooking". When the judicial action is this fast, it is called "homecooking on steroids."
Judge Almond, who is the Presiding Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit (Tuscaloosa County), is an adjunct faculty member at The University of Alabama School of Law. The University is one of the named defendants in the Estate's federal court wrongful death lawsuit against Sweet T and others.
Judge Almond's fast ruling on Sweet T's motions took away any opportunity the Estate had to raise the issue of whether he should have recused himself from hearing Sweet T's motions due to Almond's conflict of interest arising from his business relationship with the University.
Gilmore is the Bunn family attorney who published a vicious, full-page attack ad against Megan Rondini and her family in the Tuscaloosa News on July 27, 2017. The attack ad openly referenced evidence that Gilmore said was reviewed by a local grand jury, as well as text messages purportedly from Megan Rondini that Gilmore claims exonerate Sweet T of a rape charge in her case. In Alabama, grand jury information is cloaked in secrecy by law.
Sweet T sought the Sheriff's Department records as part of an ongoing public relations effort to shape public opinion in his favor in the growing scandal surrounding Megan Rondini's rape case and subsequent law enforcement cover up.
The Bunns have also hired a powerful Montgomery-based public relations firm to work with the Tuscaloosa News in developing a "hit" piece on Megan Rondini, who committed suicide after Sweet T escaped a prosecution for rape. The records sought by Sweet T's motions are needed as source materials for the upcoming article.
Based upon the plain language in Gilmore's July 27th attack ad, the Bunns already had inside knowledge of the information contained in the Sheriff's Department records and grand jury proceedings in Megan's rape case. Thanks to Judge Almond, these documents will now be provided to Sweet T on an official basis.
The public should brace itself for the Bunns' anticipated public relations molestation of Megan Rondini in death. The July 27th attack ad was just the beginning of this post-death molestation campaign.
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