By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 26, 2023 Much more is coming your way this week on the Southern Company's "hush money" scandal. These two guys are in big trouble. It's a hot mess!

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 27, 2023 An Editorial Opinion On April 24, 2023, I exposed secret “hush money” payments by Southern Company CEO Thomas A. Fanning to his ex-girlfriend Kimberly Tanaka. The payments were funneled through a Southern Company vendor to Ms. Tanaka, who was the innocent victim of a spying campaign that was hatched by top Southern Company executives in 2017. Ms. Tanaka was surveilled, along with Fanning’s other girlfriend, Sarah Loudon Novascone, as part of an effort to establish whether Fanning engaged in an alternative lifestyle. If so, the documentation of this lifestyle would be used to force Fanning’s ouster as CEO and orchestrate the selection of former Alabama Power Company CEO Mark Crosswhite as his successor. James Y. “Jim” Kerr, II, who was Fanning’s good friend, executive vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer, and chief of staff, greenlighted the spying on Kimberly Tanaka. Kerr was more loyal to Crosswhite than he was to Fanning. It was the ultimate act of betrayal, which Fanning never discovered until we began publishing our most recent articles on the Southern Company this month. The spying initiative on Ms. Tanaka was documented in the April 6, 2017 “Homewood Notes” of a meeting of Southern Company executives and “dirty tricks” operatives. Fanning dumped Ms. Tanaka as a girlfriend in late 2017 and subsequently blocked her calls. She moved on with her life. Fanning moved on with his, as well. In 2018, he married Ms. Novascone. Tanaka first learned about the spying when Bloomberg News reporter Josh Saul called her cell phone in June of 2022 and asked for her reaction while she was having drinks with a planted spy named Kristen Hentschel. The call from Josh Saul was set up by Ms. Hentschel’s handler, who implemented and oversaw the spying operation. Bloomberg News never published a story about the spying, even though this was the stated reason why Saul called Tanaka. Instead, the call from Josh Saul set off a chain of events that resulted in Kimberly Tanaka urgently contacting Thomas Fanning, via email, at Ms. Hentschel’s encouragement. Fanning unblocked Tanaka’s number and called her repeatedly. She did not accept his calls. Fanning left voice messages on Tanaka’s phone in which he begged her to call him. Tanaka’s email to Fanning after the call from Josh Saul simply asked Fanning whether he knew about Southern Company operatives spying on her. Fanning acknowledged that he did. Tanaka felt violated and anxious. She was also mad and devastated. At the encouragement of Ms. Hentschel, Tanaka sought legal counsel and pursued her legal remedies against the Southern Company. On September 22, 2022, Kimberly Tanaka filed a police report about the surveillance after a private investigator found a tracking device on her car that day. Thomas Fanning consulted with Jim Kerr, the man who greenlighted the nefarious spying campaign in the first place, about the sticky situation. It is not known whether Fanning consulted Kerr in Kerr’s capacity as Fanning’s executive vice president, or general counsel, or chief compliance officer, or chief of staff, or trusted friend. However, it is known that both men had an affirmative duty as top executives of a publicly traded company to report this matter to the Southern Company’s board of directors, which they reportedly failed to do. Instead, Fanning and Kerr resolved Ms. Tanaka’s legal claims by implementing a “hush money” payment scheme that funneled Southern Company funds through a third-party vendor to Tanaka for “no show” work. On April 25, 2023, the Roswell Police Department confirmed that Kimberly Tanaka’s case remains “ACTIVE” and has been assigned to Detective C. White (ID #121) for investigation. The illegal surveillance and “hush money” payments fall squarely within the jurisdiction of Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani T. Willis for a grand jury investigation and prosecution, if warranted. On April 13, 2023, I filed a criminal complaint with District Attorney Fani Willis against certain executives of the Southern Company and their alleged criminal conduct in running a racketeering enterprise and massive $27 billion accounting fraud scheme. In the interest of full disclosure, I am one of the many victims of the Southern Company’s decades-long racketeering scheme. In addition to the criminal complaint I filed with District Attorney Willis, my son and I also filed a criminal RICO complaint with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on January 27, 2023. The Southern Company’s racketeering scheme has corrupted certain public officials in the company’s six-state service area, compromised state and federal regulatory officials in Alabama and Atlanta, and corrupted certain federal prosecutors and judges in Alabama and Atlanta. The Southern Company’s ongoing racketeering has NOT corrupted District Attorney Fani T. Willis. Her reputation for integrity, honesty, and ethical conduct is pristine. I will amend my April 13, 2023, criminal complaint with District Attorney Willis to add the facts dealing with Fanning's and Kerr's unlawful “hush money” scheme. The amendment will be submitted to District Attorney Willis not later than May 1, 2023. After the amendment has been submitted to Ms. Willis, I will publish more details about the “hush money” scheme. “Hush Money” Prosecutions Must Be Applied Uniformly On April 4, 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted former president Donald J. Trump in New York on 34 felony counts arising from a “hush money” payment scheme in which Trump used his private company money to silence porn actress Stephanie Gregory Clifford a/k/a Stormy Daniels from discussing her alleged affair with Trump. The money was funneled through Trump attorney Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels. Trump’s state court prosecution is ongoing. As a private company, Trump had no duty to report his “hush money” payments to his board of directors, or anyone else. Unlike Trump, Fanning was required to report the Tanaka payments to his board of directors and his state and federal regulators. This, he did not do. Jim Kerr also had a duty to report these payments to the Southern Company’s board of directors and the company’s state and federal regulators. This, he did not do. Whoever runs the Southern Company’s worthless Code of Ethics compliance program also had a duty to report the Tanaka “hush money” payments to the board of directors. This, he/she did not do. Trump used his private corporation's money for his "hush money" payments. In Kimberly Tanaka's case, the Southern Company, a publicly traded company, reportedly used ratepayer money for its "hush money" payments. To prosecute Donald Trump and Michael Cohen for their roles in “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels, but not prosecute Thomas Fanning and Jim Kerr for their roles in the “hush money” payments to Kimberly Tanaka would constitute a glaring example of selective prosecution and would seem to be a grave injustice to Trump in the public’s eye. Epilogue The Southern Company has skillfully used former president Bill Clinton’s political influence in Washington to (a) stall and clamp-down on the DOJ’s criminal investigation of the company's long-running, multi-state racketeering activities and (b) totally ignore the company’s massive accounting fraud scheme. In Washington, money talks and big money talks very loud. This is why Wells Fargo Bank has never been prosecuted for any one of the 230 major violations of laws the Bank has committed since 2000. Wells Fargo simply pays a fine and keeps breaking the law. The Southern Company has modeled its criminal conduct after Wells Fargo. Both companies share Donald M. James as a longtime board member. James is Jim Kerr’s sidekick. Meanwhile, there is a complete meltdown in the executive suites of the Southern Company’s headquarters in Atlanta. No one trusts anybody. The leaks are flowing from the office. It’s one hot mess. Will Thomas Fanning make it out the door on May 24, 2023, with his retirement package that is valued up to $100 million? He WILL leave the company, but NOT with the money. Like the 14 executives who were indicted and convicted in the HealthSouth fraud scheme (2003 to 2005), Thomas Fanning, Jim Kerr, and other Southern Company executives are in big trouble. They cannot “fix” a case with District Attorney Fani T. Willis. Bill Clinton’s considerable influence peddling skills will NOT make this case go away. Anyone who aids or abets Thomas Fanning and Jim Kerr in this “hush money” payments scheme will be deemed an accomplice.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 28, 2023 COMING TOMORROW--- Tomorrow, we will bring you stunning new developments in the Southern Company’s “hush money” scandal. This scandal involves secret "hush money" payments to Atlanta fitness trainer Kimberly A. Tanaka. Ms. Tanaka was an innocent victim in an scheme by the Southern Company to coverup a failed extortion attempt in 2017 that was designed to force the resignation of Thomas A. Fanning as CEO of the company. Additionally, new evidence surfaced late this Friday afternoon suggesting that at least one board member may have been briefed on the “hush money” payments in real-time. However, this board member reportedly did not disclose the payments to the full Southern Company board of directors, even though these payments were directly tied to extensive covert surveillance activities that were conducted as part of the failed extortion attempt. CEO Thomas Fanning and James Y. Kerr, II, the former executive vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer, and chief of staff to Fanning, have concocted a plan to shift the legal blame for the unlawful “hush money” scheme to Lead Independent board member David J. Grain. Grain and Kerr are listed as culpable parties in a criminal complaint filed with Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani T. Willis on April 13, 2023. Tomorrow, we will brief you on all of these new developments. Stay tuned!

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 29, 2023 On April 28, 2023, I amended a criminal complaint that was filed with Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani T. Willis on April 13, 2023. The complaint alleged that the Southern Company has operated a decade-long racketeering enterprise and massive $27 billion accounting fraud scheme. The Amendment added allegations that Southern Company executives organized and participated in an extortion scheme that attempted to force the resignation of Southern Company CEO Thomas A. Fanning in 2017. A major component of the scheme was the unlawful surveillance on Kimberly Ann Tanaka, Fanning's girlfriend at the time. Certain aspects of the surveillance program continued through September of 2022. The Amendment also alleged that, commencing in late 2022, Fanning and James Y. “Jim” Kerr, II, orchestrated a “hush money” payments scheme in which Southern Company money was funneled to Tanaka through a third-party vendor for a “no show” job. The purpose of the "hush money" payments was to silence Tanaka about the unlawful surveillance of her during the failed extortion scheme. At the time Ms. Tanaka was spied on, Jim Kerr was Fanning’s executive vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer, and chief of staff. Fanning believed that Kerr was one of his close friends when, in fact, Kerr was the top Southern Company official who greenlighted the attempted coup d’état against Fanning in 2017. Had the coup d'tat succeeded in 2017, Fanning would have been replaced by then-Alabama Power Company CEO Mark Crosswhite, who was Jim Kerr's close friend and corporate ally. Kerr wanted to succeed Crosswhite as CEO of Alabama Power. Crosswhite was fired three months after word of the Southern Company's surveillance of Kimberly Tanaka and Fanning spilled into the public domain for the first time in an article we published on August 3, 2022. A New Development in the "Hush Money" Scandal After we filed the Amendment with District Attorney Fani T. Willis, new evidence surfaced late Friday afternoon suggesting that at least one board member may have been informally briefed on the “hush money” scheme in real-time. However, this board member did not formally report the "hush money" scheme to the full board or any law enforcement agency, even though the payments were directly tied to an effort to cover up an extortion attempt that was sanctioned by Kerr. If any board member knew of the “hush money” payments scheme and extortion attempt, but did not report these matters to the company’s full board of directors or an appropriate law enforcement agency, then such a board member is an accomplice to the coverup of the attempted extortion scheme. Several of the board members are attorneys who knew or should have known that covering up an extortion attempt is a crime itself. In light of our April 24, 2023 and April 27, 2023 articles exposing their “hush money” scheme, Thomas Fanning and Kerr have concocted a plan to shift the legal blame for the scheme to Lead Independent board member David J. Grain. Reportedly, they told Grain about the scheme in an informal setting. Kerr and Grain were listed as culpable parties in the original criminal complaint filed with District Attorney Willis on April 13th. The only two parties who reported any aspect of this matter to law enforcement officials are Kimberly Tanaka, via a police report to the Roswell Police Department, and me, via a criminal complaint filed with District Attorney Willis.. Fanning and His Southern Company Minions Are Privately Trashing Ms. Tanaka Presently, certain Southern Company board members and subordinate officials have joined Thomas Fanning in a private whisper campaign against Ms. Tanaka that is aimed at besmirching her character and denigrating her as a woman. By all accounts, Ms. Tanaka is a highly respected and well-regarded Georgia native. She is a first-class, professionally trained, highly credentialed, and certified fitness trainer. Tanaka is a Georgia native and a graduate of the University of Georgia. She also holds Personal Trainer certifications from the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Kimberly Tanaka also enjoys recognition and respect in her own right on Georgia’s political scene. Her photo below with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp clearly establishes this fact. Fanning Plans to Exit the Southern Company with a $100 Million Retirement Package On April 24, 2023, NBCUniversal fired CEO Jeff Shell, whose inappropriate interaction with CNBC correspondent Hadley Gamble cost Shell a loss of $43 million in compensation. Shell was on the receiving end of a sexual harassment complaint, which happened to be true. NBCUniversal acknowledged in an SEC filing on Friday that Shell forfeited vested and unvested stock options with an “estimated fair value of $43.3 million as of the termination date.” Shell did not receive any supplemental payments, benefits, or earned bonuses in connection with his termination. Shell only received accrued but unpaid base salary and vacation time, vested employee benefits and reimbursement for any unreimbursed business expenses in accordance with his employment agreement. In Thomas Fanning’s case, he is departing the Southern Company on May 24, 2023. Fanning was a willing participant in an unlawful “hush money” scheme that used Southern Company money to pay Kimberly Tanaka, an innocent party. The Southern Company is a publicly traded company and this "hush money" belonged to its shareholders. Fanning failed to report to his full board of directors or any law enforcement agency an attempt by Southern Company subordinates, including Jim Kerr, to extort him and force him into an early retirement in 2017. In addition to criminal laws that make it a crime to pay “hush money” for the purpose of concealing an underlying crime like extortion, stalking/spying, and criminal trespass, Fanning’s conduct violated these Southern Company operating policies: 1. "Company resources are for business purposes and company-approved activities." 2. "We do not use our position, company resources or information for personal benefit." 3. "Any potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed promptly to management." In Fanning’s case, Jim Kerr, who had his own conflicts of interest, was covering up Fanning’s conflicts of interest. 4. "All business records and accounts will be complete, accurate and based on proper accounting principles." "Hush money" payments are a per se violation of this operating policy. Using corporate funds of a publicly traded company for "hush money" payments is a criminal act. 5. "Any attempt to conceal, omit or make false entries in the records will not be tolerated." The “hush money” scheme violated all of these Southern Company operating policies, and many more. Yet, Southern Company board members, under pressure from Fanning, plan to award him a retirement package that is valued at up to $100 million, all of which is tainted in fraud. These board members have no plans to claw back any component of Fanning's retirement package. Epilogue After Thomas Fanning retires on May 24, 2023, I plan to amend my complaint with District Attorney Fani T. Willis, once again, to add every board member who votes to award Fanning a retirement package beyond his accrued but unpaid base salary and vacation time, vested employee benefits and reimbursement for any unreimbursed business expenses. Somebody must protect the stakeholder rights of the Southern Company’s 9 million customers, and I am happy to do it. This is their money, and every dollar of this money is sacred. If it takes the prosecution of a criminal complaint to force the Southern Company to comply with its own Code of Ethics, operating policies, and the Georgia criminal code, so be it. When Thomas Fanning leaves the Southern Company, he will discover that the people he thought were his close friends DO NOT give a damn about him. They were "sunshine" friends who only used Fanning, like he used his 9 million Southern Company customers. The company's 9 million customers paid dearly for Fanning's $28 billion worth of mistakes on two Southern Company construction projects (i.e., the Kemper, Mississippi coal gasification project, which never operated and is presently being demolished, and Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia, which are $21 billion over-budget and seven years behind schedule). One-third of these 9 million customers live at or below the poverty level. Yet, they supported Fanning's extravagant lifestyle and his $28 billion in managerial mistakes because they had no choice. Fanning is an elitist and his sidekick, Jim Kerr, is a bona fide racist. Both men are expected to catch pure hell in their legal entanglements after Fanning steps down as CEO. Stay tune for more explosive news about these men!

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 30, 2023 An Editorial Opinion On April 24, 2023, Tucker Carlson was fired at Fox News and Don Lemon was fired at CNN. The audiences of both news media organizations were shocked, but I was not. The news business has changed radically in the last ten years. Instantaneously delivered, free digital news content is rapidly replacing the old-fashion news model that comes from a primetime show with a highly-paid host/anchor. I would never pay any media organization for news, via a subscription purchase or a requested donation. Articles that appeal to my areas of interest now saturate the Internet. On my news media platforms (i.e., www.donaldwatkins.com, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn), I do not market products, or force readers to pay a subscription fee for my content, or beg my readers to support me with a donation. I don’t have “cookies” loaded into my articles. I don't get a fee or kickback from any sponsor if a reader clicks on one of my articles. In fact, I have NO sponsors. My news media content is diverse, fresh, well-researched, educational, thought-provoking, and free. It is often backed up with court documents, photos, and tape-recorded evidence. My special investigations over the past five decades have caused the resignation or removal of a litany of corrupt public officials, including two Alabama governors (both of whom were convicted on ethics charges), one Chief U.S. District Court judge (in Montgomery, Alabama), two U.S. District Court judges (in Birmingham, Alabama), two U.S. Attorneys (in Birmingham), one mayor (in Montgomery), dozens of crooked police officers, and countless local government officials. I hold the national record for exposing the largest number of coverups of wrongdoing by public officials, corporate thugs, and crooked law enforcement officials in America. I am proud of this accomplishment. Even though I do not promote my news media sites in any way, the average daily readership across all of my social media platforms exceeds 60,000 people. My brand of journalism is NOT a commercial enterprise. It is a public service. I report the cold, hard truth on topics that commercial news media groups like Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AL.com, and others of a similar ilk will not devote the time, money, and resources to develop and report. I am an unapologetic advocate for civil and human rights in the United States and abroad. My articles are often written in an effort to remove the yoke of oppression from the necks of the oppressed. My readership is about 60% white and international in scope. The majority of my U.S.-based readers are political moderates who have been reading my articles for many years. I always learn from my readers and they often learn from me. My media platforms are very interactive, but always respectful. I encourage spirited debate on the important public policy issues of the day. However, these debates must be carried on in a civil and respectful way on my news media platforms. Many of my adversaries, including city, state, and federal government officials, have tried for decades to shut down my investigative reporting, but none has succeeded. The campaign to shut down my investigations began in 1976, via an effort to weaponize the state's criminal justice system against me. Since that time, state and federal officials in Alabama have repeatedly tried to put me in jail. In 1994, white Birmingham corporate icon Henry C. Goodrich demanded that I leave the city because I was was disturbing the business community’s “good relations with the colored community." At the time, I was investigating and reporting on unlawfully lender discrimination against African-Americans by Birmingham-area banks. By 1999, the Birmingham business community's campaign against me had turned overtly racist. The Birmingham News (known today as AL.com) became the flag-bearer for the white community's racist campaign to quash me like a bug. Despite it all, I strive every day to maintain a sense of journalistic integrity in a world that is gushing weaklings who walk around each day masquerading as journalists. Most of them don't even have the backbone of a jellyfish. Unlike Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, I own my digital news media platforms. Nobody can fire me. I am "unbought" and "unbossed." What is more, I do not place myself in a situation where I have to kiss anybody's ass in order to write and publish my articles. In fact, it is my natural instinct to kick the asses of bullies and demagogues who target women, children, disadvantaged minorities, poor people, and the elderly for abuse. Whenever I see vulnerable members of these targeted groups getting bullied or abused, the media ass kicking I administer to the bullies or demagogues who are abusing them is unrelenting. It matters not whether I am liked or disliked by abusive bullies and demagogues. As my father, Dr. Levi Watkins, Sr., always told my siblings and me: "It is more important to be respected than liked." My brand of journalism commands respect. Just ask the CEO of the Southern Company in Atlanta.

By: Donald V. Watkins May 1, 2023 In recent years, the Southern Company has invested nearly a billion dollars in more than 125 private business deals. The private companies that received this venture capital money are listed in the Southern Company’s annual 10-K filings, dating back to 2017. Did one or more of these private companies hold the ownership interests of certain top Southern Company executives and board members? If so, were these “insider” transactions and related conflicts of interest properly disclosed to the Southern Company’s full board of directors and government regulators, as required by law? Which top executives and board members benefited financially from their undisclosed participation in these venture capital deals? Why didn’t the participating corporate officers come clean with the full board of directors and government regulators about their involvement in these transactions? In a special series of investigative articles, we will expose and explain these undisclosed, apparent conflicts of interest. It appears that participating Southern Company executives and board members enriched themselves by channeling electric/gas customer money into one or more private deals where they held an ownership interest, without telling those who had a legal right to full disclosure. This conduct is called "fraud by omission." Each time a participating executive/board member in the fraud scheme failed to disclose this material fact/conflict of interest to those who had a legal right to know about, it constitutes a separate felony charge. Hopefully, our articles will wake up the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and energize Joe Biden’s atrophied Department of Justice. Both agencies have been sleeping like Rip Van Winkle, while the Southern Company’s lawlessness, avarice, and political prowess have transformed it into a modern-day "untouchable" in Washington. For the record, the Southern Company’s corporate thugs are way bigger crooks than the 15 top executives who were convicted and imprisoned in the $2.7 billion HealthSouth Corp. fraud scandal that rocked Wall Street from 2003 to 2005. Stay tuned!

By; Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 2, 2023 Online journalist David "The Meck" Meckley had me as a guest on his podcast show again last night (May 1, 2023). This exclusive interview is hardcore, and for adults only. David and I had a great time discussing the latest developments in the growing Southern Company scandal. We covered the following subjects in a way that only independent journalists can do: 1. The "hush money" payments to Kimberly Tanaka, 2. The likelihood of a nuclear accident from the shoddy construction at Units 3 and 4 of the Southern Company's Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia, 3. The estimated $100 million retirement package for departing CEO Thomas Fanning that is tainted by a massive accounting fraud scheme, 4. The unlawful and secret "insider" deals for Southern Company executives that are funded by power customer money, 5. Why Mississippi Power, Alabama Power, and Georgia Power gouge their customers, and 6. The one simple thing Southern Company customers can do to stop the Southern Company from ripping them off -- call Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (404-612-4980) and request that she investigate the criminal complaint I filed against the Southern Company on April 13, 2023 and amended on April 28, 2023. If you are sick and tired of being ripped off by Mississippi Power, Alabama Power, and Georgia Power, please listen to this interview. Simply click on this link to listen to the interview: http://themeckpodcast.com/podcasts/DW05012023.mp3. David's podcast is audio only. Enjoy the interview! RELATED PODCASTS: 1. "My Exclusive Interview With David Meckley," dated February 18, 2023 2. "Another Exclusive Interview With David Meckley," dated March 13, 2023 3. The Meck Report --- The Meck Podcast

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 3, 2023 An Editorial Opinion On April 5, 2023, before a large audience of law students and faculty members, the Alabama Supreme Court held a special session—an oral argument hearing—at the University of Alabama School of Law. Chief Justice Tom Parker expressed hope that "Alabama Law students would be educated by seeing our courts in action, and hopefully, also inspired to pursue and walk in the paths of justice in their forthcoming legal careers.” So, what is wrong with this picture of the event? The Alabama Supreme Court is an all-white judicial body in a state that has a 26.6% black population, a 26.25 % black voting age population, and 26.39% black registered voters. The state's Supreme Court has been all-white since 2001. Every vacancy that has been filled on the Supreme Court by gubernatorial appointment since 2001 has been a white appointee. The five-judge Alabama Court of Civil Appeals and five-judge Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals are all-white, as well. In total, all 19 judgeships in Alabama's appellate court system are held by white men and women, exclusively. The all-white Alabama Supreme Court was paraded in front of a diverse group of law students to "inspire them to pursue and walk in the path of justice" in Alabama. Where is the "justice" in having an all-white Supreme Court, Court of Civil Appeals, and Court of Criminal Appeals in Alabama in 2023? Who represents the interest of Alabama's 26.6% black population in the fair administration of justice in this all-white, ultra-conservative, all-Republican court system? How does this all-white portrait of "justice" in Alabama "inspire" black law students to believe that justice is possible for them (as lawyers) and their clients in Alabama? By any objective definition used by people of interracial goodwill, this is a portrait of "injustice." Obviously, the Alabama Supreme Court justices see greatness in themselves. I see an enthusiastic return to the old Jim Crow court system that defined Alabama from 1901 until 1980 -- when the first of three black justices was appointed to the Alabama Supreme Court. The last black justice departed the Court in January of 2001. The Court has been all-white since his departure. How is it possible for reasonable people to see anything else in this picture other than a return to the Jim Crow era? Are you comfortable with this picture? I certainly am not. I have fought against the reality depicted in this picture all of my life. Have you fought against the reality depicted in this picture, or have you embraced it?

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 4, 2023 James Y. “Jim” Kerr, II, was Southern Company CEO Thomas A. Fanning’s executive vice president, general counsel, chief of compliance officer, and chief of staff from 2014 until March 31, 2023. On January 5, 2023, the Southern Company announced that Jim Kerr would assume the position of chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO, and president of the Southern Gas Company, effective on March 31, 2023. Commencing on January 28, 2023, we have exposed: (a) a long-running racketeering enterprise, (b) a massive $27 billion accounting fraud scheme, and (c) a recent “hush money” scandal in an exclusive series of articles. These unlawful acts have caused a meltdown at the Southern Company. They have also turned the place into a towering inferno. What is more, a number of state and federal criminal complaints have been filed against the Southern Company and its executives since January 27, 2023. Again this backdrop, Jim Kerr is attempting to flee his new CEO job at the Southern Gas Company. Last month, Jim Kerr quietly submitted his resumé to the executive search firm of Korn Ferry, a management consulting firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Korn Ferry offers executive job placement services for senior management executives who are looking for better employment opportunities. This means Jim Kerr is looking for a new executive job. Yes, Kerr is fleeing the inferno he helped to create at the Southern Company. Why is Jim Kerr Trying to Flee the Scene of the Crimes? As you can see in the feature photograph that accompanies this article, black employees comprise the vast majority of Southern Gas Company’s workforce. On March 24, 2023, we published a very revealing article about Jim Kerr that included a secret audio recording in which Kerr revealed himself as an elite racist who did not give a damn about the pain, suffering, plight, illnesses, and death of the Southern Company’s black customers who were hopelessly trapped in a North Birmingham neighborhood where toxic pollutants poisoned the air, ground, and water. The audiotape of this 2018 conversation between Kevin B. Forbes (referred to as "K.B." on the audiotape), who is a human rights and environmental justice advocate, and Jim Kerr is presented below. The audiotape is damning and speaks for itself. After we "outed" Jim Kerr as a racist, black employees at the Southern Gas Company wanted to have no association with him. During the first week of April, Jim Kerr worked hard to endear himself to the company’s black employees. You can see Kerr’s attempts at endearment in the photos below. ] However, Jim Kerr’s words on the audiotape and his actions in the North Birmingham situation overshadowed his phony attempts at endearment and his self-serving “wokeness” makeover at the Southern Gas Company. The company’s black employees are not buying it. They saw beyond Kerr’s fake smiles, hand-holding, and hugs while he was prancing around in their faces. They have judged Kerr by his words on the audiotape and his hostile actions toward the company’s black customers in North Birmingham. These customers had their environmental justice rights willfully suppressed by a cold and calculating Jim Kerr for the benefit of the Southern Company, Alabama Power Company, and their business alliance partners. Jim Kerr has a history of lulling Southern Company employees into a false sense of trust and security -- only to betray them down the road. This is exactly what happened to Gulf Power Company executives and employees in early 2018 when Kerr lulled them into believing the Southern Company was not selling Gulf Power to Florida’s NextEra Energy. Once Kerr gained their trust, he betrayed these executives and employees by engineering the sale of Gulf Power to NextEra Energy in 2018-2019. Despite Kerr’s many job titles and his ruthlessness at the Southern Company, he is perceived as “toxic” today because of his overt racism, as captured on the audiotape, and his outright dismissal of the environmental justice rights of the company's black customers in North Birmingham. Kerr Betrayed Thomas Fanning, As Well Jim Kerr is the trusted friend who secretly betrayed Thomas Fanning in April of 2017 by greenlighting a coup d’état to oust Fanning as CEO of the Southern Company and replace him with Mark Crosswhite, the former CEO of Alabama Power Company. In return for Kerr’s covert support of Crosswhite in the planned coup d’état, Crosswhite agreed to designate Kerr as the CEO of Alabama Power. The corporate coup attempt is documented in the “Homewood Notes” presented below. The attempted coup included a surveillance campaign that targeted Fanning and his then-girlfriend, Kimberly A. Tanaka. The coup plotters tried to videotape Fanning engaging in an alternative lifestyle, which they planned to use to force his resignation as CEO. The plotters conducted the surveillance over a long period of time, but were unsuccessful in documenting the lifestyle behavior that they believed Fanning practiced. In June of 2022, the surveillance campaign was revealed to Ms. Tanaka by a Bloomberg reporter, who did not publish an article about it. We exposed this spying campaign publicly for the first time on August 3, 2022. On December 21, 2022, National Public Radio published a feature article that provided more details regarding the surveillance campaign. The exposed surveillance campaign resulted in a “hush money” scheme in which Southern Company funds were used to buy Ms. Tanaka’s silence. The “hush money” was laundered through a third-party vendor. Fanning Has Mentally Checked Out of His CEO Job Thomas Fanning is scheduled to retire on May 24, 2023. Because of the racketeering activities, the accounting fraud scheme, and “hush money” scandal, Fanning has mentally checked out of his CEO job. Fanning's sole focus now is on securing and protecting his retirement compensation package, which is valued at up to $100 million dollars. This package is tainted by the accounting fraud scheme, but Fanning is hoping to pull off one more “con job” on his board of directors before he leaves the company for good. Anyone, including members of the Southern Company's board of directors, who knowingly aids or abets Thomas Fanning in getting his tainted retirement package out of the company will be deemed an accomplice. Meanwhile, the conduct of the Southern Company, Thomas Fanning, Jim Kerr, and other participating executives and vendors is the subject of criminal and regulatory complaints pending with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney’s Office, and the Roswell, Georgia Police Department. Stay tuned for more blockbuster developments in this raging Southern Company scandal!

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 7, 2023 Special Investigative Report--- In 2005, a Georgia appellate court ruled that easements for electric power lines permit use of fiber optic communication lines as an accommodation for new technology. The court ruling declared that running fiber optic lines on these easements was a mere change in the degree of use of the easement that did not require additional compensation to the landowner. The court ruling cleared the way for the 49 small cities in the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and utility giant Georgia Power Company to run fiber optic lines and other digital communications infrastructure on their easements across lands owned by third parties. Since 2009, the federal government has poured more than $150 billion into digital communications infrastructure. In 2019, the Georgia General Assembly passed a law allowing local electric membership corporations to offer broadband along with electric power. On February 8, 2021, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced that the state would begin Internet expansion for certain rural Georgia counties, with $20 million in his budget recommendation for that fiscal year and $10 million the next year. On November 6, 2021, Congress enacted the Infrastructure Investment Bill and American Jobs Act, which dedicated $65 billion for broadband funding. What is Southern Fiber Company, LLC On April 3, 2017, a private company was formed in Atlanta, Georgia called Southern Fiber Company, LLC, to take advantage of the ramped up commercial opportunities in the fiber optic infrastructure business. Southern Fiber Company planned to offer an all-inclusive service on multiple-stage projects--from planning and development, make-ready, installation, splicing, to maintenance and repairs. Patrick S. Pittard organized the company, incorporated it, and served as its Chairman and CEO in 2017 and 2018. Pittard was one of six equity members of Southern Fiber. The company was funded with a $6 million investment from the MacLeod Family Trust. Eric MacLeod, who runs the Trust, became the Lead Director of Southern Fiber Company. Despite its name, Southern Fiber had no known affiliation with the Southern Company when it was formed. It was not a Southern Company subsidiary, nor a tax equity partner, nor a non-tax equity partner for SEC reporting purposes. Southern Fiber Company struggled financially during the early years. Between 2018 and 2020, five of the six original equity partners left the firm under buyout arrangements brokered by Charles Clayton Sanders (a/k/a known as “Clay Sanders"), who became the sole founding member in the company. Sanders was a college student of Pittard’s at the University of Georgia and Southern Fiber was his brainchild. Sanders bought out the MacLeod interest in the company for $2.5 million, leaving the Trust with a $3.5 million loss on the buyout. The buyouts were amazing, given the facts that: (a) Clay Sanders did not have the capital to start Southern Fiber in 2017, (b) Southern Fiber Company had nearly run out of operating money during this buyout period, and (c) the company almost went out of business during the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 13, 2019, Clay Sanders formed Elite Utility Solution, LLC. The company says it provides turnkey services, from traffic control, utility construction, and directional drilling to hydro-excavation and backfilling. Elite Utility Solution is headquartered in the same building with Southern Fiber Company at 471 Meadow Lake Terrace, Hoschton, Georgia. On March 20, 2020, Southern Fiber hired Hang Nguyen as its financial analyst. Ms. Nguyen’s LinkedIn page shows that she is still with the company. Southern Fiber applied for and received a $171,689 federal Paycheck Protection Program loan on May 1, 2020. The company claimed that it retained 25 employees with its PPP money. Approximately $163,776 of the loan amount was “forgiven” on August 19, 2021. On May 26, 2021, Christopher Womack was named as Chairman and CEO of Georgia Power Company. In 2022, everything changed for Southern Fiber Company. The company filed two Annual Registration forms that year with the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. The Annual Registration form filed on March 22, 2022, contained the same basic information on the company that had been reported after the departure of Patrick Pittard in 2018. On September 8, 2022, Southern Fiber amended its March 22nd Annual Registration form to list the Duluth, Georgia law firm of Andersen, Tate, & Carr as its registered agent. The law firm replaced Chad Brown, who is Clay Sanders brother-in-law, as registered agent. Attorney Kathleen Hart, a merger and acquisition specialist, was also listed as the company’s “Attorney-in-Fact.” On September 8, 2022, Elite Utility Solution made the identical amendment to its Annual Registration. On September 20, 2022, Clay Sanders registered the “Southern Utility Group, LLC” with the Georgia Secretary of State for a “Utility Contractor” license (UM102697). However, there is no record of incorporation for “Southern Utility Group, LLC” in the Secretary of State’s Office as a legal entity. As such, the contractor’s license for “Southern Utility Group” was apparently issued to a company that does not exist from a legal standpoint. On March 8, 2023, both Southern Fiber Company and Elite Utility Solution filed their Annual Registrations for 2023, 2024, and 2025, all at one time. The registrations were filed by Andrew Bell, chief financial officer for the Southern Utility Group in Gainesville, Georgia. This was a very unusual filing. The identical scenario played out for Sanders Capital LLC, which was formed by Clay Sanders in Georgia on July 3, 2017. Sanders served as the sole incorporator, member, and registered agent, until September 9, 2022. On that date, the identical Andersen, Tate & Carr/Kathleen Hart/Andrew Bell corporate registration arrangement was put in place for Sanders Capital, LLC, including the filing of an amended Annual Registration for 2023, 2024, and 2025 on March 8, 2023. The changes to Sanders Capital, LLC occurred even though the Secretary of State’s Office issued a “Notice of Intent to Administratively Dissolve” to Sanders Capital, LLC, on July 19, 2021, and August 19, 2022, for a deficiency relating to the designated registered agent. Today, Southern Fiber Company is awash in fiber optic installation contracts with Georgia Power Company. Yet, the company’s website is devoid of any information regarding its owners, executive officers, board members, major contract awards, business alliance partners, and/or fiber optic installation projects in progress. The omission of this basic corporate information on the websites for Sanders’ companies is highly unusual. Most companies tout their relationship with anchor clients like Georgia Power as a promotional and marketing tool to generate future business. This is particularly true for startup companies and those that survived a COVID-related near death experience. The same lack of basic corporate information exists on the website for Elite Utility Solutions. Sanders Capital has no published website. How did Southern Fiber Company, which was destitute in 2020 when it applied for a PPP loan in 2020, become awash in multimillion dollar fiber optic installation contracts with Georgia Power Company in 2022? Why is this Georgia Power Company key external vendor relationship not listed in the consolidated Form 10-K financial statement for 2022 filed by the Southern Company with the SEC on February 15, 2023? The amount paid to Southern Fiber falls within the Southern Company’s definition of a “material” expense for its 10-K for 2022. What Does David J. Grain Have to Do with Any of This? David J. Grain serves as the Lead Independent Director at the Southern Company, a New York Stock Exchange/Fortune 500 company. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Grain Management, LLC, a private equity and telecommunications infrastructure firm, including fiber optic infrastructure. We profiled Grain in a March 25, 2023, article titled, “David J. Grain: Getting Rich from his Southern Company Platform.” In January 2019, Grain parlayed his Southern Company relationship to secure a seat on the board of New Fortress Energy, a NASDAQ company specializing in the production of liquefied natural gas. Grain has used his Southern Company directorship, New Fortress Energy board seat, and political relationship with the Democratic Party to grow Grain Management’s assets under management from $359 million in 2012, when he joined the Southern Company's board of directors, to $8 billion today. After Grain became Lead Independent Director on May 26, 2021, his firm’s assets under management grew by $2.9 billion. This is the same date that Christopher Womack began his tenure as CEO of Georgia Power. Along the way, Grain pocketed $365,000 in Southern Company director fees in 2021 and a comparable amount in 2022, courtesy of the Southern Company’s financially strapped electricity and natural gas customers. Grain Management invests in global broadband technology and other telecommunications assets. The company targets the acquisition of hard assets (e.g., Federal Communications Commission licenses, fiber networks, wireless spectrum licenses, and cell towers) and companies with inflation-protected revenue streams and sustainable cash flows that are uncorrelated to market cycles in secondary markets. Grain’s investment portfolio is linked here. The capital for Grain Management’s acquisitions comes from venture capital firms. It is channeled into nine investment funds that are used to acquire and build Grain Management’s portfolio of broadband, telecommunications, and fiber optic assets. Grain Management’s business model is simple, but distasteful and possibly illegal. White-owned venture capital firms use a black-owned private equity firm as a “front” to compete for and acquire FCC licenses and other telecommunications assets as a “small business” and/or “minority-owned business.” The federal government provides bidding credits, or discounts, which are applied to the gross bid amount based upon his firm’s status as a "small business" and/or "minority-owned business." Whenever Grain Management wins bids to acquire FCC digital communications licenses, the company immediately leases up to 80% of its bandwidth capacity under the license to giant companies like AT&T and Verizon. This is a slick way for white-owned digital communications companies to use a black face and play the race card to secure taxpayer-funded subsidies for the purpose of acquiring these valuable licenses. This business arrangement with Grain Management looks, smells, and feels like a "fleecing" of federal taxpayers in the digital era. Georgia Power Entered the Fiber Optic Infrastructure Business in 2017 The Southern Company entered the fiber optic business on December 13, 2017, when Georgia Power announced that it had begun working with AT&T for a Georgia-based trail of AT&T’s Project AirGig – a first-of-its-kind system that could one day deliver ultra-fast internet service over power lines. Under Project AirGig, AT&T and Georgia Power would install devices on existing Georgia Power poles to provide high speed broadband which could be clamped on by trained electrical workers in just a few minutes. This project allows AT&T and Georgia Power to offer broadband to 2.5 million customers across the state. “Georgia Power continuously utilizes technology research and collaborates with companies like AT&T in order to introduce new products and services that help meet the changing needs of our customers,” said Paul Bowers, then-Chairman, President, and CEO of Georgia Power. “Expanding access to high-speed Internet is an important initiative that provides value for all of our customers and helps us remain a competitive state in which to do business.” With this announcement, David Grain and Grain Management were legally precluded from conducting any business, directly or indirectly, with Southern Fiber Company and/or AT&T in the Southern Company’s six state service market (i.e., Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Illinois) without a full disclosure to the Southern Company board of directors and an express waiver by the board of directors of this conflict of interest. David Grain Appears to be Dripping With Conflicts of Interests It is obvious that someone in the Georgia Power/Southern Company sphere of influence has taken a special interest in growing Southern Fiber Company. It is also obvious that the Southern Company, via its partnership between Georgia Power and AT&T, has staked out the hosting of fiber optic communications lines – for a fee -- as a profit center for the Southern Company’s business operations. The installation, splicing, maintenance, and repair business of these fiber optic lines is an add-on economic benefit for Southern Fiber and whoever else is discretely financing and growing the company behind-the-scenes. Some individual or entity has financed the restructuring and rapid expansion of the Southern Fiber Company and this person or entity is hiding behind the thick veil of a well-known Georgia law firm to conceal his/her/its identity. It is obvious that somebody at Georgia Power is channeling a lot of fiber optic installation work to a company that was near bankruptcy in 2020. Who at the Southern Company would have a focused interest in growing Southern Fiber Company? Confidential sources, who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity, tell us that David Grain has used his “juice” as Lead Director to get Georgia Power to secretly grow and fatten the financial coffers of Southern Fiber Company. As we understand it, Southern Fiber is being developed with Georgia Power money as a potential acquisition target for Grain Management. What is more, substantial questions have arisen as to whether Grain Management’s multiple FCC licenses and bandwidth capacity leasing arrangements with AT&T facilitate any aspect of the commercial implementation of the Georgia Power-AT&T’s Project AirGig rollout to 2.5 million Southern Company customers in Georgia (and other states in the Southern Company service markets). No aspect of Grain’s apparent conflict of interest involving Southern Fiber Company and potential conflict of interest with the Georgia Power-AT&T Project AirGig rollout has been reported by Mr. Grain to the Southern Company’s board of directors or the company’s state and federal regulators, as required by law. If the Southern Company, acting through Georgia Power, wanted to grow the Southern Fiber Company as part its internal economic value creation strategy, it would have invested directly in Southern Fiber and listed this investment in its 10-K, along with the other 127 firms that received Southern Company investment money in 2022. Instead, it appears that the secret Georgia Power fiber optic contracts are being used to grow and fatten the Southern Fiber Company financial coffers for Mr. Grain’s personal, undisclosed, and unreported financial interests. If this scenario is true, Grain’s conduct would constitute impermissible “grifting” by a Southern Company director and would give rise to several felony offenses that should be investigated by federal and state prosecutors. Southern Fiber Company went to great lengths to conceal the nature and scope of its business relationship with Georgia Power. It took a forensic investigation to track down this suspicious activity and identify the parties involved. Apparently, no oversight or law enforcement agency is adequately monitoring or policing any of the “insider” transactions that are robbing the Southern Company’s shareholders and 9 million customers of potentially billions of dollars in tangible economic value from its entry into the fiber optic business sector. Based upon the matters disclosed in this article, this may be one of the most creative “grifting” and corporate rip-off fraud schemes since the HealthSouth Corp. scams in Birmingham that operated from 1996 to 2002. This is one hot mess! Meanwhile, Southern Company affiliates in Georgia and elsewhere are seeking more rate increases to finance the company’s scams and business losses. Stay tuned! Much more is coming to you regarding undisclosed “insider” transactions at the Southern Company.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 8, 2023 An Editorial Opinion There is no question that billionaire Harlan Crow showered U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas with millions of dollars in unreported private jet flights, luxury yacht trips, spectacular vacation stays in expensive resorts at exotic ports of call around the world, house payments for Thomas' mother, and tuition for his adopted son, all since 1996. It took ProPublica’s recent investigative reports to fully “out” Clarence Thomas as a longtime “pay-to-play” crook. In addition to Harlan Crow's undisclosed "gifts" to Clarence Thomas, his buddy Leonard Leo funneled secret payments of at least $80,000 to his wife, Ginni Thomas, in 2012. The payments to Ginni were accompanied by instructions to middlewoman/GOP powerbroker/money launderer Kellyanne Conway to make "no mention of Ginni" in this unreported payment arrangement. I first wrote about Clarence Thomas’ long-running "pay-to-play” scheme on June 24, 2022. Thomas' corruption has gotten much worse since my article was published. On May 5, 2023, I wrote about Harlan Crow’s and Leonard Leo’s “gifts” to Clarence Thomas. No country in the civilized Western world would tolerate this kind and level of public corruption on its supreme court, except the United States. In any other civilized Western country, Clarence Thomas would be in jail by now. Clarence Thomas’ Asserted “Gifting” Defense to Bribery Has Been Consistently Rejected by Federal Courts Clarence Thomas’ defense to conduct that is obviously bribery is this: These were “gifts” from longtime friends. Thomas claims he did not report these "gifts" on his annual financial disclosure forms because he did think it was necessary to do so. This “gifting” defense was expressly raised and rejected in United States v. Jewell C. “Chris” McNair, 605 F.3d 1152 (11th Cir. 2010) and Unites States v. Larry P. Langford, 647 F.3d 1309 (11th Cir.2011). Clarence Thomas and his fellow Justices on the Supreme Court declined to embrace and validate the "gifting" defense in the Chris McNair and Larry Langford bribery cases when the Supreme Court denied both defendants' Petitions for a Writ of Certiorari. As articulated by McNair and Langford in their Petitions to the Supreme Court, the “gifting” defense asserts that it is not an act of bribery for a public official to accept high dollar “gifts” from “loving” friends who befriend the defendant after he/she assumes public office. To the recipient, these "gifts" are analogous to "love offerings" to a church pastor. No Justice on the Supreme Court, including Clarence Thomas, has ever embraced this outlandish proposition of law. Furthermore, the federal courts in the Chris McNair and Larry Langford cases ruled that a defendant's failure to disclose or report these “gifts” on his/her ethics forms is probative evidence of the defendant's “corrupt intent.” Clarence Thomas' failure to report his receipt of Harlan Crow's and Leonard Leo's "gifts" evolved into a hardcore pattern and practice of "corrupt intent." A Double Standard of Justice Now that the spotlight is shining on him, Clarence Thomas obviously seeks a different judicial ruling on his failure to report the "gifts" in his case. What is more, Thomas' defenders believe he deserves preferential treatment in his case. After all, Thomas is a MAGA Republican Supreme Court Justice who was appointed to his judgeship for life. Yet, the U.S. Constitution does not provide a carve-out for "gifts" received by Clarence Thomas that would make him exempt from a federal law prosecution for bribery. It would not be appropriate to create one now just for Thomas. Interestingly, Clarence Thomas has offered no legal defense as to why he failed to report the value of the multimillion dollar “gifts” that were conferred upon him by Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo, and other big donors on his federal tax returns. Perhaps, this is because there is none. In Larry Langford’s case, his failure to report the $250,000 in “gifts” that he received from his benefactors on his tax returns was sufficient to convict him on tax fraud charges (and other criminal offenses). Thomas' Defenders Have No Need to Worry Clarence Thomas' defenders (and Thomas himself) have no worries about criminal charges in his case for three reasons. First, Clarence Thomas is billionaire Harlan Crow’s “House Nigga.” He is the premier national "Uncle Tom" in America. Second, Thomas has revered status in the MAGA wing of the Republican Party. He is a rockstar with MAGA Republicans. Even though legal scholars have rated Clarence Thomas as one of the four worst Justices in the history of the Supreme Court, and despite the fact that Thomas lacks character, ethics, and integrity, MAGA Republicans love him, unconditionally. Clarence Thomas' rockstar status within the GOP makes him immune from a federal criminal prosecution during Joe Biden's presidency. Biden has a 36% approval rating in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll released yesterday. As a practical matter, Biden cannot afford a court fight involving Clarence Thomas' various bribery schemes, ethics violations, and tax fraud. The only criminal case Biden really cares about right now is Hunter Biden's. Third, unequal justice is available to Clarence Thomas under U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. If there is any doubt about this point, just ask Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and George Santos how it feels to be a member of this protected class of public officials. Wells Fargo, Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank, and the Southern Company can also vouch for joys of this special "I am above the law" protected status, as well. Merrick Garland and his Department of Justice are weak, afraid, and impotent when it comes to enforcing federal criminal laws against members of the protected MAGA hierarchy and big-time Wall Street thugs. In closing, I have this message for all Clarence Thomas defenders: When it's all said and done, Clarence Thomas will be okay. He can keep accepting his multimillion dollar “gifts.” Thomas seems to relish the "gift" of a luxurious lifestyle from his "loving" friends. At the end of the day, Clarence Thomas is a role model for what MAGA Republicans seek and demand in federal judges! Ethical conduct is desirous, but optional. The flawless execution of the MAGA political agenda from the Supreme Court bench is mandatory. Nothing else matters.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on May 9, 2023 COMING SOON--- Since 2017, customers of Mississippi Power Company, Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company, and other Southern Company affiliates have endured dozens of painful rate increases totaling billions of dollars. One important fact was never disclosed to the 9 million Southern Company customers who were forced to pay these rate increases: These utility companies used millions of dollars of customer money each year to pay the mistresses and lovers of Southern Company executives and other corporate officers. Essentially, the customers of Mississippi Power, Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and other Southern Company affiliates have been duped into financially underwriting illicit romances, love, and sex for Southern Company executives and officers -- for years. As a result, the mistresses and lovers who benefited from these secret personal relationships lived large and they pampered their men, all with Southern Company money. What is more, these secret romances, as well as the inherent conflicts of interest related to them, were never disclosed to the Southern Company's board of directors or to the company's state and federal regulators, as required by law. We have all of the fascinating details related to this sex and romance scandal. We will break down this misuse of corporate funds for you. Stay tuned for an explosive investigative report that will leave you speechless! It's coming soon.