#ALpolitics @GovernorBentley: Alabama’s “Counterfeit” Leader – Epilogue
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, October 4, 2015
Update: Saturday, 20 February 2021
NOTE: TO THE READER: As you read any story mentioning, involving or written by Donald V. Watkins, Sr., it must be borne in mind that he is now a Federal Convict, and along with his son, Donald V. Watkins, Jr., was found guilty of numerous charges. “Donald Watkins Sr. was convicted of seven counts of wire fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy. Donald Watkins Jr. was convicted of one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.” As of the date of this note, he is in Federal Custody at Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center, an administrative security facility, having been relocated away from the minimum security Federal Prison Camp on Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
| DONALD V. WATKINS | |
| Register Number: 36223-001 | |
| Age: | 72 |
| Race: | Black |
| Sex: | Male |
| Located at: Oklahoma City FTC | |
| Release Date: 01/10/2024 | |
Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Alabama
FATHER AND SON SENTENCED TO PRISON IN MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR INVESTMENT FRAUD SCHEME
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/father-and-son-sentenced-prison-multimillion-dollar-investment-fraud-scheme
Here also is the SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT dated December 2018 entitled as:
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DONALD V. WATKINS, SR. and DONALD V. WATKINS, JR. – 2:18-cr-166-KOB-TMP
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1116081/download
See also: Donald Watkins, Son Sentenced For Federal Fraud Convictions
Updated Jul 16, 2019; Posted Jul 16, 2019
https://www.al.com/news/2019/07/donald-watkins-son-to-be-sentenced-for-federal-fraud-convictions.html
See also: Donald Watkins’ $1.5 Billion Question: Was It Ever Real?
Updated Feb 23, 2019; Posted Feb 23, 2019
https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/donald-watkins-15-billion-question-was-it-ever-real.html
Epilogue: Governor Robert Bentley, Alabama’s “Counterfeit” Leader
By Donald V.Watkins
©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on October 4, 2015
Used with permission
Since our initial September 4, 2015 edition, we published a series of articles titled, “Forbidden Love” and “Executive Betrayal.” Those articles disclosed a flaming love affair between Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and Rebekah Caldwell Mason, his married paramour and Senior Political Adviser. The adulterous love affair was underwritten by taxpayers, donors to the governor’s campaign organization, and contributors to a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation that Bentley used as a slush fund to sponsor his personal affair with Rebekah.
Alabama Governor Bentley with paramour/ Rebekah Caldwell Mason
Infidelity between two married “Christian” lovers is a moral and religious issue. The use of state and federal funds along with donor money to carry on and conceal the affair is a criminal matter.
Bentley’s case is dripping with evidence of wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, misuse of public funds, and racketeering violations under federal law, among other charges. At the end of the day, Robert Bentley is nothing more than a marital cheater and “run-of-the-mill” crook who sponsored his illicit love affair with taxpayer dollars and donations to various organizations.
Loretta E. Lynch was sworn in as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States by Vice President Joe Biden on April 27, 2015. President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Ms. Lynch on November 8, 2014.
Now that our series of articles have been published, we have begun the tedious task of preparing a prosecution memorandum for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. All of the information and evidence gathered by our Facebook news team during the course of our year-long investigation will be chronicled and sent to Washington, along with a request for a thorough criminal investigation by seasoned federal prosecutors. The memorandum will outline (a) the potential criminal charges, (b) the facts supporting each charge, (c) the documents undergirding each charge, and (d) the witnesses with relevant testimony regarding each count.
We will recommend Kastigar letters (offering limited immunity from prosecution) for those individuals who were forced to participate in this criminal conspiracy and who do not lie to law enforcement investigators. We will recommend lenient treatment for original participants who later withdrew from the conspiracy and racketeering activities because of a sense of true remorse for their wrongful conduct. We will also recommend aggressive prosecutorial action against those individuals who continue to aid and abet the governor in operating this ongoing criminal enterprise.
In the end, we will ask the Justice Department to treat the governor of Alabama in the same fashion it treated Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick was caught in a marital infidelity scandal.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick used taxpayers’ dollars, campaign funds, and 501(c)(4) “dark money” to sponsor an illicit love affair with Christine Beatty, his chief of staff.
Like Bentley and Rebekah, text messages between the married Kilpatrick and Beatty captured their torrid love affair. The text messages leave a permanent electronic footprint.
Like Bentley, members of Kilpatrick’s security detail had knowledge of his affair and tried to stop it.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick used exotic trips and “wining and dining” escapades to romance his lover, all on taxpayer and donor money.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick was highly leveraged and cash strapped. Yet, he romanced his paramour in grand style using other people’s money.
Like Bentley, Kilpatrick tried to cover up the affair and his misuse of taxpayer and donor money.
In February 2009, I voluntarily reported my knowledge of widespread public corruption within Detroit City Hall to a federal grand jury. I was not a “subject” or “target” of any criminal investigation. I was not a subpoenaed witness or a person testifying under a grant of immunity. I was simply a lawyer and officer of the court who witnessed this corruption first hand and reported it. I received a standing ovation from grand jurors at the conclusion of my testimony.
Since my grand jury testimony, more than 33 city officials and individuals associated with the public corruption scandal in and around Detroit City Hall have been indicted, convicted, and sentenced to prison for mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, bribery, misuse of public funds, money laundering, racketeering, and other charges.
Kilpatrick is now serving 28 years in prison. The city’s former treasurer was convicted of corruption charges last December and was sentenced to eleven years in prison last month. The former general counsel for the city’s two pension funds was convicted on public corruption charges last year but died before his sentencing. The mayor’s paramour was sentenced to 120 days in jail for lying about the affair.
Like the Detroit public corruption case, I have an affirmative duty to report Bentley’s corruption as well, and I will.
Like Kilpatrick, Bentley is a “counterfeit” public leader who has betrayed the public trust. Those individuals who continue to cover for Bentley will go down with him. If Rebekah Mason lies about her affair with Bentley and the “dark money” transactions, she will go down as well.
In the end, all the public wants is equal justice and respect for the rule of law.
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Kwame Kilpatrick is Federal Prisoner no. 44678-039, is incarcerated at El Reno FCI, (4205 HIGHWAY 66 WEST, EL RENO, OK 73036) and was ordered by Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds to pay $6.2 million in restitution.
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