Alabama Power CEO Jeff Peoples used company funds for black prostitutes and "party pads," with assistance from Joe Perkins and his Matrix LLC consulting firm

Jeff Peoples

 

The current CEO of Alabama Power spent thousands of company dollars on black prostitutes and "party pads," according to a report from longtime Alabama attorney and businessman Donald Watkins. From a report at his donaldwatkins.com Web site:

Reportedly, Alabama Power CEO Jeff Peoples had a propensity to spend up to $30,000 per month of the company’s money on party pads and black prostitutes at a time when this utility company was raising rates on its customers. These expenditures were reportedly funneled through one of [Joe] Perkins’ black subcontractors [at Matrix LLC]. None of this corporate misconduct was disclosed in the company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Watkins indicates more reports on this and similar topics are  coming at his Web site. And that, he says, is partly because Birmingham's mainstream media (MSM) sites are somnolent and compromised, unwilling to report on burgeoning corruption at Southern Company and its affiliates, which include Alabama Power:

The corruption flourished at Alabama Power, in part, because the Alabama Media Group accepted money from an Alabama Power-funded media entity to turn its head and look the other way. The Alabama Media Group owns the Huntsville Times, the Birmingham News, and Mobile Press Register. This is the organization that employs investigative journalist/Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald and columnist Kyle Whitmire.

Archibald was compromised in 2011, when his personal bankruptcy was surreptitiously outed by Matrix/Perkins, thereby undermining Archibald’s credibility to criticize the Jefferson County Commission’s bankruptcy filing that year.

In 2017, Matrix leaked Whitmire’s role as a modern-day COINTELPRO reporter for the Birmingham U.S. Attorney’s Office to diminish his effectiveness as a reporter/columnist.

Can we look for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Alabama to unmask wrongdoing at Southern Company? That is not likely to happen, Watkins says: 

Matrix/Perkins controlled the U.S. Attorney’s office in Birmingham, via its relationship with former U.S. Senator Richard Shelby. In 2017, the once-powerful senator got Jay Town appointed as U.S. Attorney and Lloyd Peeples hired as Town’s First Assistant. Peeples, who is compromised by Matrix, remains embedded in the U.S. Attorney’s office as the "burrrowed-in"head of the office's Criminal Division.

Finally, Joe Perkins reportedly has a truckload of “dirt” on Jeff Peoples, Tom Fanning, Chris Womack, and other Southern Company executives. This is why the Southern Company cannot terminate Perkins’ $2.5 million in contracts, where he receives payments without invoicing.

Jeff Peoples might not be the only Southern Company higher-up who is feeling squeamish about corporate secrets getting out to the public. Writes Watkins:

At the end of the day, Joe Perkins is the "de facto" CEO of the Southern Company, not Tom Fanning or Chris Womack.