During the criminal trial of Balch & Bingham partner Joel I. Gilbert and Drummond executive David Roberson in July of 2018, criminal defense attorneys were allegedly instructed not to mention Alabama Power or their ties to the money laundering entity Alliance for Jobs and the Economy (AJE) without first clearing it with Alabama Power’s criminal attorney.
But Why?
We were approached by a student filmmaker from an Alabama University who explained that he had made a documentary film exposing Alabama Power as morally corrupt and cruel entity. He entered his film into a film festival in Alabama only to have Alabama Power , a sponsor of the festival to demand that the film be removed from the line up and they took multi-million dollar litigation against a college student. Alabama Power is rumored to have a team of people who's job is simply to Google and Research and Report anything even remotly connected to Alabama Power. So we are 100% sure they will see this website and view this article. We are unafraid of course...but still, I ask again, Why?
Alabama Power, has a code of ethics. It’s called, “Ethics Southern Style.” In Alabama Politics, there often exists a "plantation" mentality that instructs everyone to stay in their place and to accept the injustice or unsavory conduct—quietly.
The five page guide, which is on the company’s website, includes a letter from CEO Tom Fanning. He writes:
“Each day Southern Company employees model Southern Style in everything we do. That kind of performance has earned us a high level of trust among our customers, shareholders and regulators. “I expect everyone in Southern Company, especially me, and all our subsidiaries to (follow the code.) Any director, officer, employee or vendor who violates the Code puts his or her relationship with the company in jeopardy.”
Tom Fanning
Is this a thinly veiled threat? Of course it is.
But theirs more and it gets worse.
Why has no one at Alabama Power or their sister-wife corporation
Balch&Bingham LLP ,
(A corporate law firm with more than 200 attorneys across offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington, D.C) never been investigated for their alleged roles in the criminal conspiracy of money laundering entity Alliance for Jobs and the Economy (AJE).
In fact, the investigation has allegedly been blocked at least four times by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Birmingham.
Of course the African American Politician who put his office up for hire , Oliver Robertson was the fall guy, but who was he afraid of telling on? Why would he take the charge. Well a "a corporate law firm with more than 200 attorneys" might have made him more comfortable with placing his life in the hands of the Alabama Judicial system. What did Oliver Robinson do? He was the driving force behind The North Birmingham Bribery Scandal that suppressed African-Americans from having their toxic and contaminated property tested by the EPA. He was also involved in the suppression of African-Americans by Oliver Robinson who was given bribes of $360,000 funneled through Balch. Robinson is currently serving 4 years in federal prison for his role in the bribery scheme. Balch partner Joel I. Gilbert was convicted of bribery and money laundering on July 20, 2018 and sentenced to five years in federal prison. Oliver is also being called responsible for the current Gentrification of Birmingham's Downtown area.
Not all of the Politicians are paid off in Alabama, just the big ones.
Pollution.
For years, environmental groups and the Southern Environmental Law Center have been urging Alabama Power to dig up and relocate the coal ash sitting in an unlined, 597-acre pond on the banks of the Mobile River.
They’ve argued that harmful materials like arsenic, selenium, lead and other heavy metals are entering the river and the groundwater at the site, not to mention the possibility of a dam breach that could flood the Mobile-Tensaw Delta with a slow-moving wave of coal ash slurry, like the incident that occurred in Kingston, Tennessee in 2008.
Alabama Power was planning to dig out the 21 million cubic yards of coal ash from the pond at the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant north of Mobile and relocate the material to an upland, lined landfill. A few months later, in November 2016, Alabama Power announced that instead of moving the coal , it would take the much less expensive option of covering the coal ash in place.. Buried it.
A recent study by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard found Alabama to be among the most corrupt states in the country.
Perhaps Alabama Power has been a target of political grandstanding since Gov. George C. Wallace determined that when Alabama power went up on a Utility Rate in the 1970's that this was a bigger deal than race relations. enough to win every election and he needed a “cause” to fight for . Wallace could have looked into the heart of Alabama Power long ago and saw the darkness of the abyss. Wallace vilified Alabama Power for , perhaps for political gain, nearly bankrupting the company along the way. Some Believe Alabama Power might have played a part in the attempted assassination of George Wallace, that left him Paralyzed from the waist down.
Alabama Power has a Building locate din The Magic City enshrouded in Mystery . They have a goddess on their roof perched over the city.
Its very occultist.
Is Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, a good guy with his hands tied?
Alabama Power financed Woodfin’s campaign for mayor in 2017. Together with some of its key vendors and networking partners, Alabama Power raised more than $300,000 of the $586,717 in cash Woodfin reported on his campaign disclosure form for Calendar Year 2017. Some of Alabama Power’s better known corporate friends and political allies who contributed to the Woodfin campaign include: (a) Alabama Power Company Employees State Political Action Committee, $5,000; (b) Gene Hallman’s Bruno Event Team, LLC, $5,000; (c) Protective Life Corporation Political Action Committee, $5,000; (d) Regions Financial Corporation Political Action Committee, $5,000; (e) Shipt, Inc., $1,000; (f) DVA Holdings Company, $5,000; and (g) Alabama Realtors Political Action Committee, $5,000. These contributions did not appear on Woodfin’s campaign disclosure report until after the October 3, 2017 run-off election.
In addition to these donations, Alabama Power Company’s financial commitment to Woodfin was fulfilled by campaign contributions from dazzling array of participating PACs, vendors, and individuals that comprise the utility giant’s constellation of political relationships. Included among them is a litany of lawyers (and/or their wives) from the Birmingham-based Balch & Bingham law firm that represents Alabama Power and its affiliate entities.
Who is mighty enough to stand against Alabama Power? They spend more money on political lobbying than any other entity in Alabama, making them the most powerful.
Alabama Power has been said to make people like us disappear. To make articles like this disappear. Look and see if you can find anything negative about Alabama Power in a public forum, we bet you pickings will be slim. We however will not be quiet!
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