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Byrne calls House Democrats’ investigations “witch hunts”

Congressman Bradley Byrne, R-Alabama, delivered a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday expressing his view that partisan Congressional investigations into the personal and business dealings of President Donald Trump before taking office may run outside the scope prescribed by the Constitution. “Last week, the chairman of the House Ways and … Continued
April 10, 2019

North Alabama U.S. attorney collects more than $9 million in civil, criminal actions in 2018

U.S. Attorney Jay Town announced Thursday that the Northern District of Alabama collected $9,044,060.80 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $7,221,160.63 was collected in criminal actions, and $1,822,900.17 was collected in civil actions. Additionally, the Northern District of Alabama worked with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the … Continued
February 19, 2019

Twilight Zone or hallucinations

January 2019 will go down in history as one of the most bizarre months for current affairs. Maybe it was the Blood Moon, the Twilight Zone or someone spiking everyone’s punch with some of that heroin or fentanyl coming across our Southern border, but January was insane. This month’s crazy news has all of us … Continued
February 1, 2019

Jones partners with GOP senator to stop tax refund theft

Tax filing season has officially begun, and that means tax returns and tax refunds — not all of which are real. Tax filing season creates an opportunity for con artists to file fraudulent tax returns in an effort to steal real refunds that are owed to other taxpayers. Theft of tax refunds cost victims a … Continued
January 30, 2019

Report: Alabama is 11th most impacted state by shutdown

A new report says that Alabama is the 11th most impacted state by the partial federal government shutdown. The report was prepared by the personal-finance website WalletHub to add some hard data to all the rhetoric. WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of five key metrics, ranging from each … Continued
January 4, 2019

Brooks votes to delay medical device tax, protect churches’ First Amendment rights

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, last week voted “Yes” on HR88, the combined Retirement, Savings, and Other Tax Relief Act of 2018 and Taxpayer First Act of 2018. Amongst other things, the bill delays many of the Affordable Care Act’s taxes and protects churches from losing their tax-exempt status for engaging in normal political speech in … Continued
December 25, 2018

Morgan County sheriff agrees to plead guilty to failure to file a tax return

Morgan County Sheriff Ana Woodard Franklin has been charged for failing to file a tax return. The charge was announced by U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman. The one-count information filed in United States District Court Tuesday charged Franklin, age 54, of Hartsell, with willfully failing … Continued
December 19, 2018

Donald Watkins, son indicted in fraud case

Thursday, two men, father and son, were charged with concocting a scheme that allegedly defrauded individual investors and Alamerica Bank out of millions of dollars. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town of the Northern District of Alabama, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp … Continued
December 3, 2018

Feds indict owners of alleged Moody pill mill

Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted a Springville couple and a prominent Moody doctor on charges they operated a pill mill in Moody, St. Clair County for four years. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas … Continued
August 31, 2018