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Former ALEA Secretary Adds Defendants To Lawsuit

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Dec 21 2016 2:24 PM


A former director of the Alabama's largest law enforcement agency has added two new defendants to his lawsuit against the governor, his successor and others.


On Wednesday, Spencer Collier, the former secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, named ALEA investigator April Bickhaus and ALEA lawyer Michael Robinson as defendants. In the complaint, he alleges that the two ALEA officials took part in a conspiracy to smear him after Collier publicized details of a state capital sex scandal between Gov. Robert Bentley and the governor's then-political adviser, Rebekah Mason.


The amended complaint adds another twist to the scandal, which has echoed with accusations and recriminations since Collier went public earlier this year.


Last March, after Bentley fired him from ALEA, Collier held a press conference making his knowledge of a sexual relationship between the governor and Mason public. In that press conference, and in court filings since then, Collier alleged that Bentley and Mason became angry with him after he refused to obstruct the prosecution of Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard. That conflict escalated, leading the governor to first put Collier on medical leave, ostensibly so Collier could deal with back problems he had suffered since a having a car wreck the previous year.


However, at ALEA, the lawsuit says, Collier's interim replacement, now-ALEA Sec. Stan Stabler, Robinson and Bickhaus began an investigation meant to discredit and destroy Collier.


Frequently the governor and his staff have leaned on the results of that investigation as justification for firing Collier, but a subsequent grand jury investigation conducted by the Alabama Attorney General's office all but exonerated Collier. In a firmly worded press release, Attorney General Luther Strange said there were never any grounds to investigate Collier, much less prosecute him.


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