| Name | Position/Role | Notes |
| Richard M. Scrushy | CEO of HealthSouth
1982-2002, 2003 Chairman of the Board One of 5 founders of HealthSouth |
In the wake of the HealthSouth scandal, he was tried on a 45 count indictment on charges that included fraud, conspiracy and mail and wire violations. He was acquitted in June, 2005. (Judge Karon Bowdre) He is facing an ongoing SEC complaint and was named in 7 counts of an indictment against Siegelman. One count was dropped and he was found guilty of the remaining six counts against him, in June, 2006. |
| Donald E. Siegelman | Governor of Alabama
1999-2002 Lieutenant Governor 1995-1999 State Attorney General 1987-1990 Secretary of State, 1979-1987 |
Indicted on 35 counts, including racketeering, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, extortion and obstruction of justice. He was previously indicted with Philip Bobo and Paul Hamrick on charges that were thrown out of court. He was found guilty on six counts related to the bribery charge, and one count of obstruction of justice. |
| The Judges and Prosecutors (Siegelman-Scrushy: May, 2005 Indictment) | ||
| Judge Mark Fuller | US District Judge (presiding judge) | Federal Judge since 2002. He is the chief judge of the Middle District of Alabama. |
| Judge Charles Coody | US Magistrate Judge | Scrushy, Siegelman and Roberts failed in their attempts to have Coody recused. Coody's son-and-law works for HealthSouth. |
| Louis Franklin | (Acting) US Attorney- Lead Prosecutor | Chief of the Criminal Division |
| Joseph Fitzpatrick |
Assistant Attorney General (Special US Attorney) |
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| Jennifer Garrett |
Assistant Attorney General (Special US Attorney) |
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| JB Perrine | Assistant US Attorney | |
| Stephen Feaga | Assistant US Attorney | He was appointed by Redding Pitt, now one of Siegelman's attorneys. |
| Richard Pilger | US Attorney | DC Based: From Public integrity section of DOJ |
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The Judges and Prosecutors (Siegelman I: May 2004 Indictment)
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| UW Clemon | US District Judge | Dismissed the charges of this indictment with prejudice. |
| Alice Martin | US Attorney- Lead Prosecutor | Unsuccessfully prosecuted Richard Scrushy for charges related to the HealthSouth fraud scandal. |
| Melissa Atwood | Assistant US Attorney | One of the prosecutor's in the ethics complaint that ultimately removed Judge Roy Moore as the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. |
| Tamarra Matthew Johnson | Special Assistant US Attorney | She was part of the Scrushy-fraud trial prosecution team. |
| John Gibbs | Assistant Attorney General | One of the prosecutor's in the ethics complaint that resulted in the removal of Judge Roy Moore as the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He was reprimanded by Clemons for his conduct in the hearing. |
| Matt Hart | Assistant US Attorney | Worked on the case involving HealthSouth executives Vincent Nico and Thomas Carman. He was reprimanded by Clemons for his conduct in the case. |
| Leura Canary | US Attorney | Wife of Bill Canary who was advisor to governor Bob Riley and ran the campaign of Bill Pryor for Attorney General. She recused herself from the case because of connections to Riley and Alice Martin. |
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Don Siegelmans's Legal Team |
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| Charles Redding Pitt | Siegelman attorney | Former US Attorney and chairman of Alabama Democratic party. |
| David McDonald | Siegelman attorney | A partner with Kilborn. With Kilborn, argued the case to the jury. |
| Vincent Kilborn, III | Siegelman attorney | Mobile civil lawyer with a flamboyant reputation. With McDonald, argued the case to the jury. |
| Hiram Chester Eastland, Jr | Siegelman attorney | A Mississippi lawyer and family friend of the Kennedy's. He has worked on class-action suits agains tobacco companies and HMOs. |
| George Blakey | Siegelman attorney | Notre Dame law professor. One of the authors of the RICO statutes and one of the premier attorneys on conspiracy law. He was brought in to argue legal issues to the judge. |
| Susan James | Siegelman attorney | She was hired after the trial as a sentencing specialist, to argue for a reduce sentence. |
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Richard Scrushy's Legal Team |
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| Art Leach | Scrushy attorney | Former Assistant US Attorney. He was part of Scrushy's and the team that unsuccessfully defended Source Medical executive Sonny Crumpler. He is also defending Scrushy in SEC and other civil cases. |
| Les Moore | Scrushy attorney | He was the 2nd in command of security, and has defended Richard Scrushy in both trials and the civil litigation cases. |
| James Kenneth Jenkins | Scrushy attorney | He did back-end work in the fraud trial, and is the primary attorney in charge of Scrushy's jury composition challenge. |
| Terry Lucas Butts | Scrushy attorney | A former Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme court, he defended former Chief Justice (and Republican gubernatorial candidate) Roy Moore against being removed from the bench. Butts lost to Bill Pryor in the 1998 Attorney General's race. [Withdrew from case on April 25, 2007] |
| W. Bruce Malloy | Scrushy attorney | A partner of James Jenkins. |
| Fred Gray, Sr. | Scrushy attorney | He was a long time civil rights attorney, who represented Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, among others. |
| Carmen Hernandez | Scrushy attorney | Sentencing specialist. She is the President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. |
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Investigators and the Investigation |
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| Bill Long | FBI agent | An investigator attached to Alabama Attorney General's office |
| Jack Brennan | Retired FBI Agent | Working with the Alabama Attorney General's office |
| Gerald Shockley | Retired FBI Agent | Working with the Alabama Attorney General's office. |
| Vicki Davis | FBI Agent | |
| Nick Bailey | Former Siegelman aide and former acting head of ADECA | Along with Lanny Young and Jimmy Allen, Bailey was one of the government's star witnesses; and he was the only one who gave testimony resulting in a conviction. Although he could not testify to any direct knowledge of an agreement Siegelman had with Scrushy, he said that he was at the Governor's office when he said Siegelman had a check for $250,000 and said "He's half way there." The existence of the check and the date of the meeting was disputed by the defense. |
| Related Government Officials | ||
| Bob Riley | Governor of Alabama | Beat Siegelman in narrowly contested race, in 2003. Closely tied to Michael Scanlon and Bill Canary. |
| Bill Pryor |
11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2004 Attorney General, 1997-2004 |
Although he had worked closely with Siegelman, he effectively denied any inquest or recount into the Baldwin County anomalies that occurred during the 2002 election. He was nominated to the Federal Court of Appeals, by George Bush, in 2003 and he was confirmed in 2005. |
| Steve Windom |
Lieutenant Governor, 1999-2003 State Senator, 1989-1998 |
He lost to Riley in 2002 gubernatorial primary. His main platform at Lt. Governor was tort reform. Has done well financially since leaving office, lobbying for the private prison firm that houses Alabama prisoners, among other things. He ran the Bush-Cheney campaign, in Alabama. |
| Troy King | Attorney General, 2004- | He was appointed Attorney General, by Riley, after Bill Pryor was nominated to the Court of Appeals. As AG, presided over both Siegelman indictments. He had been an adviser to Fob James and Bob Riley. |
| Jeff Sessions | US Senator from Alabama | Close friend of David Whetstone's. He was an Assistant US Attorney, and a US Attorney from the Southern District of Alabama. He was Alabama Attorney General, entering the Senate in 1997, being succeeded by Bill Pryor. He is in his second term in the Senate. |
| David Whetstone | (former) DA in Baldwin County | After some Siegelman votes seemingly disappeared in Baldwin County, enough to cost him the election, on advice of Attorney General Bill Pryor, Whetstone said that no one could touch the ballots and they would not be recounted. The DA has a close friendship with Jeff Sessions. Like many Alabama Dixiecrats, Whetstone was a democrat (appointed by George Wallace) who switched to the Republican party in the 1990s. He lost in the 2002 primary for the Alabama 1st District Congressional seat, and after being elected to another six year term as DA, gave up his seat in 2006. Riley appointed his replacement. |
| Miscellaneous People Related to the Political and Financial Aspects of the Scrushy-Siegelman situation | ||
| Bill Canary | CEO of Alabama Business Council | Husband of US Attorney Leura Canary. Canary worked for Lieutenant Governor Steve Windom, ran the campaign of Attorney General Bill Pryor and was a campaign advisor to Governor Bob Riley. He is currently the CEO of the Alabama Business Council. He worked with Rove to run a slate of candidates for the Alabama Supreme Court. |
| Bill O'Connor | Former CEO of Alabama Business Council | He is a consultant with the the Franklin Resources Group. He was the managing director of the Campaign for Alabama |
| Karl Rove | Republican operative and political fundraiser. Formerly deputy chief of staff in the Bush White House. | Working with Bill Canary, and for the Alabama Business Council, Rove came to Alabama and ran a slate of nominees for the Alabama Supreme Court. 1994-2000. |
| Ralph Reed |
Executive Director of the Christian Coalition, 1989-1997 Head of the Georgia GOP, 2001-2003 |
Heavily connected with Michael Scanlon via a company he founded: Capital Strategies. He also has close ties to Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove, and Grover Norquist. He lost the primary for Lt. Governor of Georgia, in 2006. |
| Grover Norquist |
Executive Director of College Republicans, 1981-1983 President of Americans for Tax Reform Founder of Janus-Merrit Strategies |
Closely linked to Abramoff and has been friends with him since college. Money that went was destined to go to various causes was funneled through his Americans for Tax Reform group, and this money ultimately went to Abramoff's gambling interests and to defeat The Alabama lottery. The Janus-Merrit Group also funded Indian gambling interests. His groups were used as pass-throughs for money to defeat gambling interests in Alabama, including Siegelman's lottery. |
| Jack Abramoff |
Political lobbyist. Chairman of College Republican National Committee, 1981-1985 Founder of Alexander Strategies Group and Capital Campaign Strategies. |
He has pled guilty to five counts of corruption, in two cases: One involving the Indian Casinos he represents, and one involving the SunCruz Casino boats, in Florida. Because of monetary links and political ties, the political fallout from his convictions continues to be felt in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, and everywhere in Washington, DC. He has close associations with Tom DeLay, Ralph Reed, George Bush and Michael Scanlon. He once said that he was in contact with Karl Rove and the Bush White House, and there is speculation of other Abramoff-Rove connections. |
| Michael Scanlon |
Communications Director for Tom DeLay Press Secretary for Congressman Riley |
He was a partner with Jack Abramoff, and had a close association with Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed and Governor Bob Riley. He has plead guilty to bribing a member of Congress (Bob Ney: R-OH) and has agreed to cooperate in any investigation of Abramoff and others. His lobbying group, Capital Strategies, made an unreported donation of $500,000 to the Republican Governor's Association. Some of this money made it to the Bob Riley campaign. |
| Ed Buckham |
Chief of Staff for Tom DeLay, 1995-1998 One of the founders of Alexander Strategies Group. |
He organized a group called the US Family Network that sent a mailing to people in Alabama, as a fund raising effort to support Abramoff's Indian gaming clients. The letter was signed by then House Representative Bob Riley. |
| Dax Swatek |
Political consultant and lobbyist. Consultant and spokesperson for Riley re-election campaign. |
He was a consultant to Senator Jeff Sessions, Bill Pryor and Bob Riley. He is also a lobbyist for several big business corporations, like Philip Morris and Wal-Mart. He was behind a grass roots effort to support Channel One, that had links to Reed, Abramoff and Norquist. He turned Bob Riley around on the issue in what appears to be an effort to protect the interests of outstate clients and not the children of Alabama. |
| Dan Gans | former Chief of Staff to Governor Bob Riley. Lobbyist. | He worked for Abramoff's Alexander Strategy Group. He was the link between Abramoff and the Channel One issue. |
| Merv Nabors | The other guarantor on the note that Siegelman signed for a bank debt owed by the Democratic party. The Scrushy money ultimately paid some or all of this debt, and in terms of the trial, it was considered a thing of value to Siegelman. | |
| Eddie Curran | Reporter for Mobile Press-Register | This reporter broke news that was sometimes cited by the government as tipping off or guiding their investigation. Much of his accounts were about no-bid contracts and the excesses of Nick Bailey. His articles were also cited as giving the government information that tipped them off to a possible Scrushy-Siegelman scheme. |
| Miscellaneous adjuncts working with Siegelman or Scrushy | ||
| Charles Russell | Scrushy publicist | He worked for Scrushy through the first trial and at the beginning of the second trial, but is currently not involved. |
| Kristen Hainen | Scrushy publicist | Works for a national public relations firm |
| Chip Hill | Siegelman campaign aide | Has worked with Siegelman for many years in various capacities. |
| John Aaron | Siegelman campaign aide | Has worked with Siegelman for many years in various capacities. |
| Bobby Segall | President of the Alabama Bar Association | Associate and early attorney of Don Siegelman. |
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