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Rob Riley, the son of former Alabama Governor Bob Riley, had an extramarital affair with a lobbyist that led to a number of personal and political complications, sources tell Legal Schnauzer.
Liberty Smith Duke, a lobbyist based in Clanton, Alabama, had an affair with Riley about six years ago. Riley, a married father of four, heads the Riley Jackson Law Firm in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood. But he is perhaps best known as a major Republican political figure in our state for almost two decades, playing key roles in his father's campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Alabama Governor's Office.
The reports about an extramarital affair, and the ugly repercussions from it, raise new questions about the ethics of a political family that has claimed to be opposed to abortion rights, gambling, and other cultural issues on moral grounds.
It also raises new questions about a political son who is seen as a possible future governor, even though he already has a checkered ethical past. Rob Riley's slippery grasp on matters of right and wrong dates at least to 1996. That's when he engaged in campaign-finance irregularities, on his father's behalf, and eventually received a $10,000 fine from the Federal Elections Commission.
The latest revelations could prove to be far more damaging than the FEC case to any future political hopes Rob Riley might have. In a pair of telephone interviews with Legal Schnauzer, Riley admitted knowing Liberty Duke, but denied having an affair with her. During our conversations, Riley angrily hung up on me three times.
Liberty Duke did not respond to a voice message, seeking comment.
Our sources do not have an exact time frame on the Riley/Duke affair, but it appears to have happened between 2005 and 2007. That means it likely was going on during the criminal prosecution of former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman, a case that Rob Riley reportedly helped launch.
Who is Liberty Duke? For 2012, the Alabama Ethics Commission lists her as a registered lobbyist for the following entities: Benjamin Gordon Main Sr., ERIS Inc., MedImmune, and Pinnacle Networx Inc.
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Lobbying records from 2008 show her clients as Advanced Technology Systems Inc., Benjamin Gordon Main, Sr., ERIS Inc, Omnilink, Sepracor Inc., and Town of Dauphin Island.
Why should messiness in Rob Riley's personal life matter to everyday Alabamians? Let's consider some of the stories in which he has played a prominent role:
* The Congressional Campaign-Finance Scandal of 1996--The Republican Party launched a $3-million advertising blitz aimed at bolstering its candidates in the closing weeks of the 1996 election. The plan was financed by contributions from wealthy donors to a company called Triad Management Services. An investigation unmasked the plan as a money-laundering scheme, and Rob Riley was fined for making and accepting excessive contributions.
* The Plot to Launch a Political Prosecution Against Don Siegelman--Former Alabama GOP operative Jill Simpson testified under oath before Congress in 2007 that Rob Riley told her an offer had been extended to former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman to drop a criminal investigation in exchange for his decision not to contest Bob Riley's razor-close electoral victory in the 2002 governor's race. Simpson also testified that Rob Riley was on a conference call in which key Alabama Republicans discussed a plan to launch a bogus prosecution against Siegelman. Rob Riley later would file an affidavit, claiming "I have no memory of being on a phone call." Meanwhile, Simpson produced phone records showing that a call took place at the time she had indicated.
* Medicare Fraud and Performance Group LLC--Rob Riley best is known as a lawyer and politician's son, but he also is a business owner, heading a physical-therapy company called Performance Group LLC. A whistleblower named Ingrid Awtrey Law claimed in a 2008 federal lawsuit that Riley's company engaged in widespread Medicare fraud, including forgeries of physician signatures.
* Indian Gaming Money and the Battle Against Non-Indian Gaming--Like his father, Rob Riley long has claimed to be opposed to gambling, on moral grounds. But newspaper reports last fall showed that Rob Riley helped funnel Indian gaming money to an organization that fights non-Indian gambling facilities in Alabama. Both Riley and A. Eric Johnston, the director of Citizens for a Better Alabama, claimed they did not know the $100,000 came from Indian gaming sources. But veteran Montgomery journalist Bob Martin caught Johnston in at least one clear lie about the money, calling into question the validity of most everything he and Riley have said on the subject.
Numerous published reports indicate Rob Riley has only a casual acquaintance with the truth in his public life. Now, we learn that his personal life also has been riddled with dishonesty.
Riley's wife, the former Leslie McLeod, of Lineville, Alabama, has knowingly or unknowingly suffered. So have Liberty Duke and Rob Riley's Republican colleagues.
That's because the affair led to some complications that are ugly, indeed.
(To be continued)
53 comments:
Darn...with all that baggage he seems ultimately qualified for life as a politician...a real shoe-in!!
D. Mullen
Phenix City
Benjamin Main has ties to Rob Riley and Crimsonica.
http://postimage.org/image/mmgiwfmz9/
Well, well, well... Take a look at this.
http://judicial.alabama.gov/Bios/main.cfm
Doesn't Rob Riley serve as counsel for the Town of Dauphin Island? http://www.followthemoney.org/database/lobbyist.phtml?l=10617
Rob Riley would never do this. He is against gambling.
Me smell scandal. Me likey.
Need to learn more about Benjamin Main. He has been a strong connector to Liberty Duke.
I'm betting Rob Riley is morally opposed to you reporting this story.
Yes, I believe that Rob Riley is town counsel for Dauphin Island. And Liberty Duke was lobbyist for the town. Will be reporting more on the Dauphin Island connection here.
Roger, absolute genius!
This is how the New American Century gets born, reporters that are the greatest truth in earth.
LOVE THIS ART.
Of course we must understand that this is only standard operating procedure, George W. Bush and Condi Rice were not exactly working mates in just gov.
Benjamin G. Main, Jr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4vaYZfVZYY
Finally, someone writes the truth about a member of the Riley family. Amen!
Wasn't Rob Riley closely aligned against HealthSouth and Richard Scrushy in a big federal lawsuit? But Mr. Riley was carrying on an affair with a lobbyist the whole time? Hmmmm . . .
Yes, Rob Riley teamed up with Haskell Slaughter's Doug Jones on that one. Jones once was a member of Don Siegelman's defense team, at least in theory.
Rob Riley, "married father of four," having an affair? My, my . . .
I hear he's a deacon or something at Dawson Baptist Church. My, my . . .
Here's another image I found of Liberty Smith Duke. http://postimage.org/image/hby28vhxd/
This has been well known in Montgomery circles for quite some time. I'm amazed someone finally had the guts to report on it.
Anon at 11:26--
Thanks for sharing. That appears to be from the high school days.
Rob Riley hung up on you three times? Hah!
I agree with Anon @11:27. It's been an open secret for a long time. There's a lot more to be told on this story. The way I heard it, the affair produced a pregnancy that disappeared after money exchanged hands.
This is not the Rileys' only "zipper problem." I'm hearing Big Bob was not alone on his trip to Alaska. He had "companionship."
Interesting photo of Ms. Duke? Is she black, Latina, Asian, other? Can't quite figure it out.
Can't wait to hear about the "complications" from this.
Anon at 11:34--
Yes, there is much more to be told. I've been researching this story for months, and I probably have 2-3 months worth of material to write/report. Stay tuned.
This made me spew coffee across the kitchen this a.m. Not that I don't believe it. Just couldn't believe anyone would write about it.
@11:40
Must admit I had that same question. Ms. Duke certainly appears to come from interesting lineage.
Wow - you better not post anything about Luther Strange's longtime extramarital affair with Jessica Medeiros Garrison, who was his campaign manager in 2010 and left her husband and baby for him and now works for the Poarch Creek Indian money conduit RSLC . . .opps . . did I say that?
"... I Hate to Bother You:
.. Here’s how Lewis Carroll’s queen explained to Alice how justice is dispensed in a looking-glass world:
.. “There’s the King’s Messenger. He’s in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesn’t begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all.”
... At times the narratives of History end badly, but she, History itself, never ends. When she says goodbye, she only says: I’ll be back .... "
Eduardo Galeano is the sage of the Americas. Galeano’s classics include: Open Veins of Latin America and Genesis.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/i-hate-to-bother-you-is-justice-right-side-up/14767
Creole, SHE LOOKS ...
A person of European descent born in the West Indies or Spanish America. 2. a. A person descended from or culturally related to the original French settlers ....
and named LIBERTY? French to be sure would name this.
LS, you join the sage Galeano, read his whole write at the link provided, he too is brilliant.
You are so awesome for the people of the south! I'm moving back home, Biloxi Marx
Rob Riley must like the exotic type.
Rob Riley is morally opposed to gambling, but as the married father of four, having a fling on the side with a lobbyist is OK.
Hmmm, that sounds pretty typical for a "pro family" conservative.
I've heard Rob Riley played a major role in stealing the 2002 election in Baldwin County. That also would call his ethics and morality into question.
This has been a very poorly kept secret for quite some time in Montgomery. I did not know the woman's name, but the various details have been out there for a while.
Kudos to Mr. Schnauzer for reporting on it. The story long has been that this involved a woman who used to work at Matrix, LLC, and I understand that Ms. Duke, indeed, did work at Matrix.
Lots of dots are starting to be connected.
Luther Strange caught in an on-going affair with a subordinate??? Say it ain't so!!! Get busy on this, Roger, and thanks to anonymous for that tidbit of info!!!
LS I think you could place a Riley in the midst of every scandalous, fraudulent topic you report on. Emberrassing for Alabama!
What psychological defect or "inner animal" drives these "so called" moral conservatives to criminality & moral turpitude ?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/24/AR2006062401080.html
He got Jungle Fever... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbM781v7M0
Rob Riley's mouth is as big as the Joker's.
Keep on and please stay SAFE ! Doing what you are doing you becomes a stone on someone's path. So be careful. Thanks for the info.
This guy has a horse face.
In reading faces, "humans" that look like animals, are.
Tim Geithner looks like a donkey face, his ears even look like what happens to those that begin acting inside as beasts and not humans.
Then Liberty, from High School to now? Wow, what happened to her neck, and GMO human? What is up with a baby between her and the Horse Faced Beast.
Rileys, Rollins, beasts of burden for the *BLOB [see *Jeff Connaughton] Geithner, AND look at the troll Frankenstein [i mean feinstein], and Pelosi looks like a skeleton with tanned skin as a hide alright, behind the most vile evil deeds ~ALL that are the so called Zionist "American" gov.
Want to be really scared by the ilk which got us here? Go look at the pictures of Golda Mier.
Yes we are owned by the State of Israel which worships death, destruction, evil, evil, and what evil can't they manufacture for US to live - Americans in Hollywood's movies of never ending animal farm.
Excellent reporting as usual Roger. The depth and breadth of corruption in this state is unbelievable, only exceeded by the arrogance of those who routinely violate those ethics. The Crimson JD mafia must be off axis this morning over this blog. The years of unethical behavior is becoming more and more difficult thanks to people like Roger. More people need to step out of the shadows and speak the truth. Roger, be careful, powerful people in this state don't care for common people trying to hold them to the rule of law or exposing their unethical activities...
When I think about Patsy Riley screaming at the rally in front of the State building about how corrupt and immoral gambling is and all the while her son is having an affair. That's hypocrisy at work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6ltj66bb4
Please dig further into Luther Strange. All these people that are against gambling don't seem to have a problem having affairs.
Crap...He'll fit right in here in AL... And there you go again "getting too close to the family."
I wonder how Gomer Riley THANKS about these THANGS you have put out before the public. I never will get over the governor our state making a speech. "I THANK THANGS are looking up for Alabamer. Did he not have coach on how to speak properly? Think not thank and things not thangs. Great job as always.
Oh heck did I just see pregnancy and disappeared pregnancy? What is going on? "The Family" is hellbent against gambling but abortion is ok? Oh my gosh.. maybe he has been watching too much Scandal... on tv.
Ralph Reed is against abortion but ALL FOR money laundering.
And he loves to use phrases that signify religion & the family:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/hamptonroadscom/store/391.pdf
"The Crimson JD mafia"
~What a great insight.
Roger, the truth told by a commoner is truly whistling past the graveyard, you be taking out insurance, that again, has a disclaimer, think of Aaron Swartz.
Your genius is too much competition for the animals loose off the farm.
The BLOB has its slime slithering wherever the truth is told and as you know from the reporting you do about the agents for the BLOB, the beast behavior is vile.
If it's true Rob Riley caught his father Bob Riley in bed with Jill Simpson the lady the Rileys threw under the bus during their quest to destroy Don Siegelman I guess the old saying is true like father like son.
Re the Luther affair with Jessica Medeiros Garrison. Word has it that her divorce was quite ugly and hubby refused to allow her to move to Montgomery. She now works for RSLC; I believe the $100K Poarch Creek contribution to Strange was funneled through RSLC. This story needs the work of one Legal Schnauzer. Great reporting.
He he hawed at me. His pic did!
He Haw He Haw He Haw, his pic He Haws!
Wow thanks for the animated pic of
Riley, he used to be my boyfriend too, but not after this!
Liberty Duke is Goat Hill's village bicycle - pretty much everyone gets a ride. The latest is Gerald Dial.
She must be getting paid handsomely to lobby for MedImmune. Dial is revolting. He looks like that little Gollum creature in Lord of the Rings.
http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/21513659/article-Senator-Gerald-Dial-supporting-specialized-medicine-for-premature-infants?instance=home_news
Come on roger. Ive got to hear more on this!! Great job keep up the good work!!!
Scary troll world U.S. of A.
* Dianne Feinstein has funneled over 1 billion in contracts to her husband Richard Blum's URS ... just one of his companies to which she has funneled money stolen from the people of America. She has also with our money helped him profiteer from bankster foreclosures.
http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/
Gollums alright, all of these so called "leaders of a free world."
"... Today, calling information “news” is insanity. News is a commodity, “give me a half pound of gun confiscation scare and a few slices of “creeping socialism.”
.. For every real “whistleblower” or “leaker,” there are a dozen paid phonies. What is the typical “bio” of a “shock jock” podcast host or “blogger/debunker?” Most have done prison time. None have ever been gainfully employed for more than three months. CVs or resumes describe them as “consultants” or “administrative assistants.”
.. Most have histories of being sexually abused and of being sexual abusers, particularly of children. Some publications actually cross over into print, such as the Village Voice/Backpage.
.. This pro-Zionist publication uses its front pages to spew attacks at what it calls “anti-Semites” while using its “Backpage” to sell kidnapped children into sexual slavery.
.. From a 2012 article in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof:
.. "Alissa says pimps routinely peddled her on Backpage. 'You can’t buy a child at Wal-Mart, can you?' she asked me. 'No, but you can go to Backpage and buy me on Backpage.'
LS, YOU'RE EXACTLY ON POINT!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/27/285781/journalism-is-dead-and-buried-in-west/
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