Documents surface that appear to confirm Alabama Power's ties to dubious acts, raising new questions about vehicle crash that nearly killed Burt Newsome

The crash involving attorney Burt Newsome.

Newly revealed signed documents and financial records appear to confirm a dubious enterprise involving Alabama Power and Southern Company. Does that include connections to a head-on vehicle crash that nearly killed Birmingham-area attorney Burt Newsome in September 2020? K.B. Forbes, CEO of the CDLU public charity and advocacy group, raises that issue and more in a post today at banbalch.com.

What do the anonymously revealed records show? For one, Mark Crosswhite has retired as Alabama Power CEO, but a major clean-up chore remains for Southern Company chief Tom Fanning. Writes Forbes:

Now that Crosswhite has been ousted, Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning needs to clean house starting with “Sloppy Joe” Perkins and his obscure political consulting firm, Matrix.

Perkins’ signature is on documents in which Jeff Peoples of Alabama Power paid him mid-five figures to allegedly terrorize Burt Newsome, his young twins, his entire family.

Why would Peoples, Alabama Power Executive Vice President of Customer and Employee Services, be involved in such alleged acts? Why would a utility company entangle itself in an enterprise that appears to include terrorizing innocent children and families?

The mid five-figures given to Sloppy Joe is on top of the more than $2 million paid to Perkins and his entities yearly, allegedly without the need for an invoice.

The documents involving Perkins are curious in other ways, Forbes writes:

Although described as involving “transportation,” the obscure and vague contract appears to confirm the alleged dirty deeds tied to Matrix.

Transportation services and trade secrets seem to be synonymous with dirty deeds and acts of terror.

That brings us to the Burt Newsome vehicle crash, which certainly could come under the heading of "transportation." And it came on the heels of other attacks on Newsome. Writes Forbes:

With Alabama Power allegedly spending hundreds of thousands through Matrix to allegedly smear Newsome falsely on a website as a rapist in July and August of 2020,  there is not much left to stretch when looking at the alleged crime of attempted murder against Burt Newsome that occurred on September 11, 2020.

Newsome was injured in a head-on crash two weeks after the smear website went live.

He was gravely injured and nearly killed. Some even claimed the crash was an alleged intentional act to silence Newsome, who is the lead attorney in ex-Drummond executive David Roberson’s $75-million civil lawsuit against Alabama Power’s sister-wife Balch  & Bingham, and Drummond Company.

The other driver reportedly works for Norfolk Southern, a long-time business partner of Alabama Power and Drummond.

A photo taken at the scene appears to show, oddly, that the other driver in the green Ford Explorer, who made a left turn in front of Newsome,  turned right when Newsome attempted to swerve around him.

Currently, the Roberson case is under seal in a secret Star Chamber. The sealed proceedings could be hiding, obscuring, and concealing a variety of misconduct.

That brings us to the peculiar judicial machinery that long has operated in the Birmingham area:

Ironically, one of the highest campaign contributors to the judge presiding over the Roberson case is the illustrious Andrew “Andy2K” Campbell, who incredibly represents Sloppy Joe, Matrix and Balch.  (Campbell donated $3,000. Maybe he should now be called Andy3K.)

Before the case was sealed,  Alabama Power and Crosswhite were in sheer panic and vigorously fought to have protective orders approved.

The rebirth of the North Birmingham Bribery Trial appears to be a grave threat to Alabama Power.

Before the case was sealed in 2021, was Alabama Power trying to intimidate Newsome?

Everything we, the CDLU, have received is being turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including “Sloppy Joe’s "trade secrets."

Fanning must terminate the Oompa Loompa of Alabama politics, Sloppy Joe, and clean house.

The Crosswhite era is over, and the posse loyal to him needs to be removed like a spreading cancer.