Prelude to Justice: In the wake of roiling scandals, Southern Company execs are under the gun, and that includes former Alabama Power CEO Mark Crosswhite

Attorney Burt Newsome and family

 

Signs are increasingly pointing to the likelihood that Southern Company and its affiliates, which include Alabama Power, will be held accountable for a series of underhanded actions that apparently were designed to intimidate individuals who had taken action -- in court or the media -- to expose scandals swirling around the giant, Atlanta-based utility conglomerate. That is a key takeaway in a post yesterday at banbalch.com from K.B. Forbes, publisher of the Ban Balch blog and CEO of its parent organization -- the CDLU public charity and advocacy group.

Current and former Southern Company chieftains likely are feeling scandal-related stress, and that probably will not ease anytime soon -- as Forbes suggests under this headline: "A Year Later: A Prelude, Not an Aftermath, as Southern Company Faces the Music." From the post:

A year ago, the embattled CEO of Alabama Power Mark A. Crosswhite was ousted in disgrace. The surveillance efforts and scandalous acts of the Southern Company criminal enterprise were exposed in the public arena.

A few days after the announcement, we, the CDLU, received anonymously spreadsheets and documents outlining how Southern Company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the summer of 2020 attacking us, the family of our CEO, K.B. Forbes, and Burt Newsome and his family.

Both Forbes’ and Newsome’s young children were targeted and at times cried in fear by the foolish acts paid for by Southern Company.

 Southern Company’s campaign of fear and intimidation worked: The Forbes family fled their home, and Newsome had to hire and install new security and safety measures

 In recent days, speaking to insiders and seasoned law-enforcement officials, Crosswhite’s resignation was not an aftermath but a prelude of what is coming down the pike.

 Southern Company is facing the music.

 What points in that direction? Forbes provides details:

Last month, the whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2018 over Southern Company’s boondoggle Kemper Plant in Mississippi was unsealed.

It took 5 years for the big reveal, but the chickens have come home to roost.

Insiders and officials say that more federal probes are in the works, confirming what we wrote last month: “The Southern Company Criminal Enterprise is being held accountable, and the investigations currently under way are deep, massive in nature, and slowly coming together.“

Matrix LLC (and founder/owner Joe Perkins), Balch & Bingham, Alabama Power, and their goons appear to be in the middle of this firestorm.

Could Southern Company and affiliated entities soon be staring down the barrel of justice? Forbes' sources -- and he has followed the Southern Company scandals longer, and in more detail, than anyone -- say the answer is yes:

The Newsome Conspiracy Case, from a decade ago, ended with a $242,000 judgment against Burt Newsome, but cost Balch & Bingham between $40 and $100 million in clients and fees in the aggregate.

Now Balch’s sister-wife, Southern Company, may be on the hook for billions in fines, liabilities, and regulatory settlements for, in part, partaking in the foolish criminal acts against Newsome -- and his family -- that had no corporate purpose whatsoever.

We now ask Southern Company the same question we asked Balch: Have you lost your minds?

This story has tentacles that reach all the way to right-wing provocateur and Jan. 6 organizer Ali Alexander and to Colorado, where Alexander is the subject of a criminal complaint and investigation for alleged online solicitation of a minor. 

Alexander (formerly known as Ali Akbar before his criminal history became well known) was convicted in Texas of theft of property and credit-card abuse, both felonies, and he has a documented history of trolling online for gay sex. Alexander has longstanding ties to Alabama, and he and his National Bloggers Club (NBC) launched an intimidation campaign against me because someone who went by "RogerS"posted comments at a website the NBC bloggers  took as threatening, and they apparently became convinced I was "RogerS," even though I had nothing to do with the comments. Matt Osborne, publisher of the website where "RogerS" first appeared later stated that evidence showed I could not have been "RogerS." 

As for Burt Newsome, the nastiness against him includes a mysterious vehicle crash that shows signs of being staged and left him with a broken leg and other injuries. Will someone finally be held accountable for that, and other wrongdoing. K.B. Forbes' reporting suggests the answer is yes.