A Simple Guide For #ALpolitics Mainstream News Media Organizations

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

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A Simple Guide For Mainstream News Media Organizations

By Donald V. Watkins
©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on October 5, 2015
Used with permission

I have a simple guide for Alabama’s mainstream news media organizations that want to assail or independently confirm the accuracy of our exclusive reporting on Governor Robert Bentley’s martial infidelity and misuse of taxpayer and donor money. Before starting, I want to note that I hold the individual record in Alabama for exposing the highest number of major corruption scandals involving public officials. Thus, I am going to give my fellow journalists some simple tips on effective investigative journalism as it relates to the governor’s cheating scandal.

First, ask for all of the text messages between the governor and Rebekah Caldwell Mason from January 2011 to the present. These records are public documents under Alabama’s Open Records Act. They are not confidential or privileged documents. They are still available in permanent data storage repositories. If you are lucky enough to get the text messages from the governor and any of them have been deleted, I will let you know. If you do not get them from the governor, then his office does not respect you or your news organization. Seasoned journalists have alternative means for ascertaining the contents of text messages.

Alabama Governor Bentley with paramour/ Rebekah Caldwell Mason

Second, it is virtually impossible to conduct any activity between two people and it not be recorded or photographed. Think of every place the governor has romanced Rebekah, especially when they thought they were alone. Sometimes the best evidence of infidelity is in plain view and the lovers have simply overlooked it.

Third, listen to what is NOT being said by the lovers you are investigating them. In this case, neither the governor, nor Rebekah, nor their lawyers are denying the affair. They believe your news organizations are weak and impotent. They also know you will not ask the tough questions. For these reason, they will probably stonewall you on providing the full collection of text messages, if they provide you with any of them. I expect that they will frustrate your efforts in this regard because the text messages document the love affair.

Fourth, there is no such thing as a “secret,” especially when it involves “pleasures of the flesh.” Ask Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. People talk. Credible sources with knowledge of the affair will talk to you if they believe your organization has the backbone to publish explosive stories involving powerful people. Right now, the public has a lack of confidence in the mainstream media. I fully understand why.

Fifth, use common sense. No devoted wife is going to sue her husband of 50 years for a divorce unless something really bad happened during the later stages of the marriage. Furthermore, no loving husband, or decent man, is willing to end his 50-year marriage in a record-breaking 30 days without some effort at counseling or reconciliation, unless something awful and embarrassing would have been exposed in the divorce proceeding if it had dragged on.

Add all of this up and you have a classic cheating scandal.

When the public official is highly leveraged and cash strapped, as in Bentley’s case, he is cheating on his wife with somebody else’s money. In most cases involving public officials, it is almost always the taxpayer or campaign donor who is footing the bill. Ask John Edwards, Kwame Kilpatrick, and a host of other public officials who romanced their mistresses on other people’s money. Rich people like former Montgomery, Alabama, federal judge Mark Fuller and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger romanced their paramours, for the most part, with their own money. While not rich, former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford used his own money for his international fling with an Argentinian mistress.

I hope these tips are helpful to you. Now, all you need is some courage.