tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post5509474064516296744..comments2024-03-12T21:13:06.850-05:00Comments on Legal Schnauzer: Will the GOP Help BP Get Away With a Fast One on the Alabama Coast?legalschnauzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-29904133586879843102011-02-04T22:32:02.108-06:002011-02-04T22:32:02.108-06:00hey can this entry w/comments be posted on DKosBet...hey can this entry w/comments be posted on DKosBeta?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-21186434382168500372011-02-03T05:41:17.963-06:002011-02-03T05:41:17.963-06:00So Enron Energy Services was a partner in Sonat......So Enron Energy Services was a partner in Sonat....hmmmmm......<br /><br /><br /> Early on, Reed discovered the potential for synergy between the business and political worlds. For instance, one of his first and highest-profile consulting jobs was for Enron, a client that he garnered in 1997, reportedly through his connections to Karl Rove, who later made Reed a consultant in the 2000 presidential campaign. Century Strategies earned more than $300,000 from Enron for mounting grassroots lobbying campaigns to help build backing for energy deregulation." Other clients have included the school-focused media company Channel One, Verizon and casino interests working with Reed friend Jack Abramoff in an effort to block Native American tribes from opening new, competing casinos.[citationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-24277140910215114682011-02-02T20:10:20.634-06:002011-02-02T20:10:20.634-06:00Max:
Sure thing. Thsnks for shining light on thi...Max: <br /><br />Sure thing. Thsnks for shining light on this subject.<br /><br />LSlegalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-62243851250530440812011-02-02T17:46:06.646-06:002011-02-02T17:46:06.646-06:00LS,
With your permission we are going to link you...LS,<br /><br />With your permission we are going to link your column to our recent offering on the Pittman fleece job.<br /><br /><a href="http://alabamacorruption.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-day-in-alabama-ethics-reforms-keep.html%22" rel="nofollow">New Day in Alabama Ethics Reforms Keep Sunshine Off of Senator Trip Pittman's Fleece Job</a><br /><br />It's all part of the same ugly picture of merchants of tragedy profiteering in our opinion.<br /><br />MaxMax Shelbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13462265300417588171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-92034829086194154792011-02-02T12:33:12.353-06:002011-02-02T12:33:12.353-06:00Yep, I'm allegedly unfit to take the bar exam ...Yep, I'm allegedly unfit to take the bar exam & lacking the required character over a few grand in unpaid credit card debt, much of which I racked up working for peanuts at the State with my pay frozen while these lawyers got paid the big bucks to help their clients get away with not paying the very debts that would have helped fund the pay raise I deserved & needed to pay off my loans. They buy new homes, luxury cars & send their kids to college, law school & buy them into partnerships at professional firms on the money they cheated the taxpayers out of. Anybody who cares (like you and me) are forced out of our government jobs & replaced by folks who will turn a blind eye to the game. The system perpetuates itself. Time is not on our side. These dudes' two year old grandchildren are going to graduate from law school, pass the bar, go to work for the big corporate defense firms and perpetuate the system of self interest before we can do anything about it, but it needs to be well documented so the next generation will have the information it needs to tear down this system or corruption. I'm calling on every newly minted 25 year old lawyer who passes the bar exam this year to dedicate their career to doing something about it.Robby Scott Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08625575128616865817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-65812779394510456852011-02-02T12:13:02.570-06:002011-02-02T12:13:02.570-06:00In the wake of the Exxon royalty scandal, BP worke...In the wake of the Exxon royalty scandal, BP worked hard to maintain a very low profile in Alabama. They conduct most of their offshore oil & gas exploration in the State of Alabama as a silent partner of a Japanese company called Marubeni Energy <br /><br />http://www.marubeni.com/division/news_topics/006220.html#div_con1<br /><br />If you want to know how all these lawyers & state officials are getting paid off, the money trail starts with the offshore oil leases to Marubeni. I'm talking tens of millions of dollars in wires with plenty of opportunities to skim a little off the top. <br /><br />This is done via the "creation of litigation" & outsourcing legal work that lawyers at The Attorney Generals Office should be doing themselves. "The Families" as Bob Riley likes to call them are rewarded through contracts that bypass the normal contracting and purchasing channels & are always awarded to hand picked university departments that have the Families on the payroll & real estate firms where members of "the Families" are silent partners. <br /><br />Money is fungible. When I worked for the Conservation Department. I designed grants to the University of Alabama & Auburn to do "scientific research" knowing that they only needed X amount of dollars to do the research. However, I awarded the grant in an amount ten times greater than what they actually needed knowing that the university would turn around & hire "The Families" & pay their fees out of the other 90% of the grant funds. In subsequent quarters we would ask the university to invoice us for adequate cost overruns and formally request change orders & extensions to the contracts & grants to cover everything & it's all legal because the Contract Review Committee has no real power & there are no criminal penalties for this in the Alabama Code. It's just a dog and pony show. The Alabama Mafia's core source of income is oil & natural gas revenue & they will invent all kinds of contracts & grants to launder the funds. Then there's Paul Bryant Jr. Bank where the end recipients of the funds keep the grand totals of their ill gotten gains a secret.<br /><br />Does this explain why Paul Bryant Jr., a guy whose alleged expertise is in college football fund-raising & the reinsurance industry was always calling my desk & leaving messages for James Hillman Griggs an oil & gas attorney whose alleged expertise was hanging out in the woods & watching birds?<br /><br />Follow the money Roger Alan Shuler & the truth when it is fully revealed will be stranger than fiction.Robby Scott Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08625575128616865817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-24193085230490767262011-02-02T11:53:57.135-06:002011-02-02T11:53:57.135-06:00Great insights, Rob. Thanks. I knew about Luther S...Great insights, Rob. Thanks. I knew about Luther Strange's ties to Bradly Arant and Transocean. But I did not know about Transocean's ties to Sonat, and how far back "Big Luther" goes with Sonat. Has Alabama just let Sonat and its affiliates get away with not paying their bills? Interesting to compare that to credit-card companies that sic debt collectors on people when they can't even prove the debt is owed.legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-25718923202180726542011-02-02T11:33:23.820-06:002011-02-02T11:33:23.820-06:00On ethics matters, the State Bar acquiesces to big...On ethics matters, the State Bar acquiesces to big city corporate interests, but they will crush any country lawyer who represents Working People. I know all about Sonat from my work at the Conservation Department & Florida East Coast Industries. Sonat (short for Southern Natural Gas) is a subsidiary (for tax purposes) of my old friends at El Paso. Before it went bankrupt ENRON Energy Services d/b/a Florida Gas Transmission was a partner in Sonat. Florida Gas Transmission & Sonat owe the State of Alabama a lot of money in unpaid rents & fees for their Pipeline Rights of Way or PROW & Submerged Pipeline Rights of Way or SPROW. The Conservation Department claimed it didn't have enough money to give me the pay raise I was due. Yet, Commissioner Barnett Lawley sent his son to law school & my supervisor James Hillman Griggs reclassified his job title & raised his pay to over $130K a year while they got away with not paying what they owed Alabama taxpayers. You & I need to go to Montgomery & audit all of their unpaid contracts.Robby Scott Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08625575128616865817noreply@blogger.com