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Defendants |
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Richard M. Scrushy |
CEO of HealthSouth 1984-2002, 2003 and Chairman of the Board. One of the founders of HealthSouth. |
Acquitted, in June 2005, of 46 counts of fraud, conspiracy, mail and wire violations. (Judge Karon Bowdre). There is a pending and ongoing SEC complaint against him in Birmingham. Named as a co-defendant in 7 counts of indictment against Siegelman. The counts include bribery and mail fraud. Found guilty of all six counts against him. |
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Don Siegelman |
Governor of Alabama
(democrat) 1999-2003. |
Indicted for 34 counts, including racketeering, extortion, mail fraud, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and bribery. He was previously indicted in a case, with Hamrick and Philip Bobo, that was thrown out "with prejudice." Found guilty of six bribery related counts and 1 count of obstruction of justice. |
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Gary Roberts |
Director of the Alabama Department of Transportation |
Indicted for 16 counts of mail fraud. Found not guilty of all counts. |
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Paul Hamrick |
Governor Siegelman's Chief of Staff |
Indicted in 7 counts, including racketeering, obstruction of justice and mail and wire fraud. He was previously indicted, with Siegelman and Bobo, in a case that was thrown out, "with prejudice. Found not guilty of all counts. |
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Legal Case & Government Officials (and adjuncts) |
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Government |
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| Judge Mark E. 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. | |
| JB Perrine | Assistant US Attorney | ||
| Joseph Fitzpatrick | Assistant Attorney General (Special US Attorney) | ||
| Jennifer Garrett | Assistant Attorney Generar (Special US Attorney) | ||
| Louis Franklin | (acting) US Attorney | Chief of Criminal Division. | |
| Stephen Feaga | Assistant US Attorney | ||
| Richard Pilger | US Attorney | From Public Integrity Section of DOJ - DC based | |
| Vallie Byrdsong | Contract-consultant | He is working with the prosecution on technical and other administrative tasks. | |
| Government officials associated with Siegelman I: The first indictment- in Northern District | |||
| Alice Martin | US attorney. Lead prosecutor | Unsuccessfully prosecuted Richard Scrushy | |
| Melissa Atwood | Assistant Attorney General - co-lead, with Martin | 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 Matthews Johnson | Special Assistant US attorney | Was part of the Scrushy prosecution team | |
| John Gibbs | Assistant Attorney General | One of the prosecutor's in the ethics complaint that ultimately removed Judge Roy Moore as the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. | |
| Miles Hart | US attorney | Worked on the case involving HealthSouth officers Vincent Nico and Thomas Carman | |
| Leura Canary | US attorney | Wife of Bill Canary, aide to Governor Bob Riley. Because of husband's connection to Alice Martin and Bob Riley, she recused herself from further proceedings. | |
| Debra Hackett | Clerk of the Court | Her record keeping became an issue as part of Scrushy's jury composition challenge. She worked with the defense to produce records and data. | |
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Scrushy's defense team |
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| Art Leach | Scrushy attorney | He was part of Scrushy's defense team in the fraud trial, and is assigned to the SEC case. Along with Moore, he unsuccessfully defended HealthSouth and Source Medical employee, Sonny Crumpler, in his criminal case. | |
| Les Moore | Scrushy attorney | He was part of Scrushy's defense team in the fraud trial, and is assigned to the SEC case. Along with Leach, he unsuccessfully defended HealthSouth and Source Medical employee, Sonny Crumpler, in his criminal case. | |
| James Kenneth Jenkins | Scrushy attorney | He did back-end work for Scrushy's defense, during the fraud trial. | |
| Bruce Rogow | Scrushy attorney | He was brought in post-trial as an appellate specialist. He is a professor at Nova Southeastern University, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Notable highlights in his impressive resume include that he has argued 11 cases in front of the Supreme Court and that he was the council in the post election 2000 case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing board. He has successfully argued many high-profile civil and criminal cases. | |
| Jim Parkman | Scrushy attorney | He was lead attorney in Scrushy's successful defense in the HealthSouth fraud trial. | |
| R. Martin Adams | Scrushy attorney | Partner of Parkman. Son-in-law of Scrushy. He worked on the defense team, in the first trial. | |
| Terry Lucas Butts | Scrushy attorney |
He was an Associate Justice of the Alabama
Supreme court, and Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama
Supreme court, as a client. Moore is a local icon and lightning rod. He
was removed from the court for defying an order to remove a statue of
the 10 commandments from the state's Judicial Building.
Moore ran against Riley in the 2006 primary. [Withdrawn from case on 4-25-07] |
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| W. Bruce Malloy | Scrushy attorney | He is a partner of James Kenneth Jenkins. | |
| Fred Gray, Sr. | Scrushy attorney | Long time civil rights attorney. Represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| Carmen Hernandez | Scrushy attorney | Sentencing specialist. She is President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. | |
| H. Lewis Gillis | Scrushy attorney | He was part of Scrushy's defense team in the fraud trial, and is assigned to the SEC case. [Withdrawn from case 3-1-06] | |
| Christopher Kyle Whitehead | Scrushy attorney | He is an associate member of Gillis' law firm. [Withdrawn from case 3-1-06] | |
| Kristen Hainen | Scrushy publicist | From Outside Eyes- California based communications firm. | |
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Siegelman's defense team |
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| Charles Redding Pitt | Siegelman attorney | Former US attorney and current chairman of Alabama democratic party. | |
| David McDonald | Siegelman attorney | He is a partner of Kilborn. | |
| Hiram Chester Eastland, Jr. | Siegelman attorney | A Mississippi lawyer and family friend of the Kennedy's. He has worked on suits against tobacco companies and HMOs. | |
| Vincent Killborn, III | Siegelman attorney | He has a flamboyant reputation, mostly in the realm of civil law. | |
| W. Perry Hall | Siegelman attorney | He is in McDonald's and Kilborn's firm. | |
| G. Douglas Jones | Siegelman attorney | Jones was a former US Attorney and was the lead prosecutor in the successful prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan members responsible for the murder of 4 girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham. He represented some clients in civil cases against HealthSouth. Jones is in his firm. He was disqualified from representing Siegelman by the judge in Siegelman's first trial because as a US attorney, he worked on the initial part of the government's corruption probe. | |
| George Blakey | Siegelman attorney | Professor at Notre Dame. He is one of the people who wrote the RICO, and is one of the premier attorneys on conspiracy law. | |
| Susan James | Siegelman attorney | She was hired after the trial as a sentencing specialist, to argue for a reduced or limited sentence. | |
| Joe Jordan | Siegelman attorney | [Withdrawn from the case on 3-27-06] | |
| Russell Drake | Siegelman attorney | [Withdrawn from the case on 2-16-06] | |
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Paul Hamrick & Gary Roberts' team |
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| Samuel Briskman | Roberts attorney | ||
| Joel Evan Dillard | Roberts attorney | He was an assistant attorney general of Alabama, when his law partner, William Baxley, was attorney general. They are both on this case. | |
| Stewart Davidson McKnight, III | Roberts attorney | ||
| William Joseph Baxley | Roberts attorney | He was an attorney for HealthSouth CFO Weston Smith. He was Alabama Attorney General (1971-79) and Lieutenant Governor (1983-87). His ex-wife, Lucy Baxley, is the current Lieutenant Governor and has announced her candidacy for governor. | |
| Thomas Jefferson Deen, III | Hamrick attorney | ||
| Michel Nicrosi | Hamrick attorney | Former DOJ attorney, handling fraud cases. | |
| Ronald Wayne Wise | Hamrick attorney | He was formerly an assistant US Attorney, in the Southern District of Alabama. (Withdrawn from case 2-27-06) | |
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Categorized List of Associated Individuals and Businesses |
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Unindicted co-conspirators and others linked directly to the conspiracy |
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| Clayton "Lanny" Young | Businessman | Plead guilty to money laundering and fraud charges. He bribed Philip Jordan, regarding his interests in solid waste disposal. Part of alleged "absolute agreement" described by Nick Bailey. | |
| Nicholas Bailey | Former Siegelman cabinet member. | Former aide to Siegelman. Pleaded guilty to bribery related charges. Testified vs. Scrushy and Siegelman to the Grand Jury. | |
| Philip Jordan | Probate Judge, Cherokee County AL | Took bribes from Lanny Young. Plead guilty. Sentenced to six months in jail and 6 months home detention. | |
| Michael Martin | CFO of HealthSouth | Pressed investment banker Bill McGahan to come up with $250,000 for the Alabama's Educational Lottery Fund | |
| Eric Hanson | Lobbyist with US Strategis | Lobbyist who worked for HealthSouth. Alleged to have helped negotiate the CON Board for $500,000 deal with Siegelman | |
| Curtis Kirsch | An architect. | Pleaded guilty to bribery related charges. Friend of Nick Bailey. | |
| Jimmy Lynn Allen | Developer | Named in the indictment as having been squeezed by Siegelman. | |
| Anthony Fant | Birmingham businessman. Owned antique store. | Gave money to Nick Bailey | |
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Scrushy-Siegelman Bribery Charge |
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| Taylor Pickett | CFO of IHS. | He arranged to have check for $250K donated to Alabama Educational Lottery Fund, in return for debt reduction of funds owed to UBS-Warburg. | |
| Dr. Robert Elkins | Psychiatrist. Founder and CEO of IHS (Integrated Health Services) | IHS was the company from which the $250K check that was donated to the Alabama Educational Lottery Foundation was drawn on. Company went bankrupt in 2000. | |
| Loree Skelton | HealthSouth attorney | She worked with matters involving the Alabama CON. Scrushy's attorneys attend her testimony was shaped and "locked down" after the government tricked his defense counsel into divulging information about the case. | |
| Josh Hayes | Siegelman appointments secretary | Appointments Director, for Siegelman. | |
| Raymond Bell | Attorney- He was an appointments secretary, under Siegelman | He was on Ethics Commission that cleared Siegelman in 2002, prior to his first indictment. | |
| Carter Wells | Siegelman campaign field director. | Ran the Alabama Education Lottery Foundation (Scrushy's contribution to this foundation was alleged to be a bribe for a CON board seat) | |
| Jabo Waggoner | State Senator and former HealthSouth VP. | Testified to the grand jury. | |
| Richard Dorman | Attorney | Director of Alabama Education Foundation | |
| Mervyn Nabors | Businessman | Owned American Instrument Co. in Birmingham. He was a co-signor of loan made to democratic party. He was CEO of Florida's Aerosonic and was named in class action suits from his involvement with this company. | |
| Ted Hosp | Attorney | Siegelman legal advisor. Gave advice about how to restructure lottery funds, and later about the filing the amended disclosures. | |
| Tim Adams | Nurse | CON Board member - Siegelman appointment. As charged in the indictment, the member of the CON Board that Scrushy was supposed to have corrupted. | |
| Carleton McCurry | CON board member during Siegelman administration. | ||
| Margie Sellers | She was executive director of Alabama Association of Nursing Homes | CON board member during Siegelman administration. She represented the Alabama Nursing Home Association. She was chairman of the CON board. | |
| Dr. Herbert Stone | Siegelman appointment to CON board. | ||
| Carol Giardina | CON board member during Siegelman administration. | ||
| Dr. Roosevelt McCorvey | Montgomery doctor. Member of NMA- an association of African American Physicians. He is on the Alabama Special Care Facilities Financing Authority. | CON board member during Siegelman administration. | |
| Borden Ray | An attorney from Tuscaloosa. | Siegelman appointment to CON board. | |
| David Brandt | VP at HealthSouth | Son-in-law of magistrate judge Charles Coody. Scrushy tried to get Coody recused because of this relationship. He worked at HealthSouth when Scrushy was CEO, and continues to work there. | |
| Melissa Mauser Galvin | Associate Dean of External Affairs at University of Alabama, Birmingham. She is also Associate Director of the Geriatric Education Center (at UAB) and was Executive director of Alabama Commission on Aging. | CON board member during Siegelman administration. | |
| James Gundlach, PhD | Professor at Auburn University (Sociology and Anthropology) | Retained as an expert witness by Scrushy to conduct an analysis of the methods the District uses to select a jury pool. He has successfully challenged the selection process in an earlier case and is currently working on a pending challenge. | |
| Edward Bronson | Professor (emeritus) at Cal State | Expert retained by Scrushy to analyze the jury pool and the pre-trial publicity associated with this case. | |
| Steven Elmore, Sr. | Forensic Accountant - Smiley-Smith & Bright | The government's expert in the jury composition challenge. | |
| Marion Chartoff | Attorney retained as a consultant to Scrushy's team | Attorney in the Carmichael case, that is mounting a jury composition challenge. She is helping Scrushy compile data (perhaps anecdotal) from other cases about the composition of juries in the District | |
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Talladega Super Speedway Sunday Beer Sales |
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| Brett Shelton | Former VP and General Manager of Talladega | He is now at Michigan International Speedway | |
| Grant Lynch | President of Talladega | ||
| Dewayne Freeman | (former) State Senator | He introduced the bill for Sunday beer sales at Talladega. | |
| Gerald Dial | State Senator | Sponsored the beer bill | |
| Richard Childress | NASCAR Team owner | Owned the (Dale Earnardt) car that Siegelman drove around Talladega | |
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GH Construction |
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| Bryan Broderick | Builder | Head of Broderick Construction, an unlicensed builder. One of the people who incorporated GH Construction. Plead guilty in a plea agreement. | |
| Ellis Brazeal | Attorney | Brother in law of Paul Hamrick. He was one of the people who incorporated GH Construction. | |
| David Green | Businessman | Brother-in-law of Lanny Young. One of the people who incorporated GH Construction. | |
| Randall Smith | Head of Alcohol Beverage Control Board, under Siegelman. | Not involved in the project, but the ABC Board would have had one of the warehouses built by GH Construction. | |
| Roland Vaughn | Architect | His firm had the architectural contract for the project | |
| Bill Blount | Investment Banker | Underwriter for the project | |
| Ran Garver | Head of Purchasing for Alabama | ||
| Shane Bailey | ADECA's purchasing department | Nick Bailey's brother. | |
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WasteManagement or Revenue deals |
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| Tom Harringtom | Operations Manager - Waste Management | Austin Young LLC contracted with Waste Management through him. | |
| Chuck Campagne | Executive - Waste Management | ||
| Johnny Crawford | Lobbyist. | Raised money for Siegelman. He was contract lobbyist for Waste Management. | |
| Jim Hayes | Commissioner of revenue | Siegelman appointment | |
| Susan Kennedy | Attorney | General Counsel for Alabama Revenue Department. A Siegelman appointment, her billing practices with the revenue department were questioned. | |
| Robert Barr | With ADEM | ||
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Miscelaneous connected people |
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| Jim Cunningham | Political consultant | Siegelman fund raiser | |
| Lori Allen Siegelman | Wife of Governor Siegelman | A check alleged to be a bribe was written to her. | |
| George Beck | Attorney | Nick Bailey's attorney | |
| Gina Friday | Nick Bailey Assistant | ||
| Marilyn Rowe | Siegelman Assistant | Testified to the grand jury | |
| Beth Crain | Lanny Young secretary. | Young had a long affair with her. | |
| Giles Perkins | Lobbyist and former head of Alabama Democratic Party | Closely tied to Don Siegelman | |
| Pam Baker | Siegelman cabinet member-children's affairs | Her appointment, by Siegelman, to Alabama State Board of Education was withdrawn by incoming governor Bob Riley. | |
| Elmer Harris | Former president of Alabama Power. | He was chairman of Siegelman's transition team. He had considered a run for the governorship in 2006. | |
| Bill Gordon, III | Montgomery businessman | Siegelman supporter. Appointed to Alabama Housing Authority, by Siegelman. Business received large contract from ADECA. | |
| Jack Miller | Attorney | Chairman of the Alabama Democratic party during Siegelman administration. | |
| Jim Lane | Montgomery businessman | Siegelman supporter. Business received large contract from ADECA. | |
| Crum Foshee | Lobbyist | Former state legislator. He was once prosecuted for a check kiting scheme. | |
| Milton McGregor | Dogtrack and casino owner | Bailey has denied taking any bribes from him but he bought some tickets for Bailey to attend a Las Vegas show. He was against the lottery. | |
| Claire Austin | Republican lobbyist | Associated with attorney general Bill Pryor, she is partially credited with helping to begin the investigation vs. Siegelman/Hamrick | |
| Neal Wade | Director of Alabama Development Office (under Bob Riley) | Was on Alabama Commerce Commission, under Siegelman. | |
| Henry Mabry | Lobbyist/Businessman | Siegelman-era Director of Finance | |
| Philip Bobo | Physician | He was indicted, with Siegelman and Hamrick, on fraud, witness tampering, and conspiracy charges, and the case was thrown out "with prejudice." | |
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The Investigation: Law Enforcement, US Attorneys and Others involved in the investigation |
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| Matt Hart | FBI Agent | Investigator worked on the case | |
| Bill Long | FBI Agent | An investigator with the Alabama attorney general's office | |
| Jack Brennan | (Retired) FBI Agent | Working with prosecution on the case vs. Siegelman and Hamrick. | |
| John Scott | US Attorney | Worked on the early part of the Siegelman case. He was later teamed with Richard Wiedis (on the losing side of the Scrushy-Birmingham trial) and they were badly beaten in the Utah Olympics-bribery case. | |
| Julia Weller | Assistant US Attorney | Worked on the early stages of the case. Took over after Laura Canary. | |
| John Gibbs | Assistant Attorney General | Worked on investigating this case. Also worked on the effort to remove Roy Moore as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He is the head of Alabama's corruption and white collar prosecution division. | |