NOV 5 20091.Gov. candidate Bill Johnson believes Riley influenced by Miss.
casino owners
2. Bob Riley's Gambling Connections Extend to Family Members
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1. Gov. candidate Bill Johnson believes Riley
influenced by Miss. casino owners
by Debbie Ingram for the Dothan Eagle
A Republican candidate for governor accused Gov. Bob Riley on
Thursday of being influenced by gaming interests in Mississippi.
Bill Johnson, a former Riley Cabinet appointee and member of his
campaign staff, said Thursday that Riley’s hard stand against
electronic bingo in the state may be because he took money from the
Choctaw Indians to limit the expansion of gaming in Alabama during
his first campaign.
Contributions, cited in Sen. John McCain’s “Gimme Five” Investigation
of Tribal Lobbying Matters, presented to the Committee on Indian
Affairs in 2006, were made in an effort to protect the reservation’s
market share in the neighboring state.
“I was in the leadership of the 2002 and 2006 Riley for Governor
Campaign,” Johnson said Thursday morning during a press
conference he called at the Country Crossing development south of
Dothan.
“We received money from the Mississippi Indians — millions of dollars.“
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2. Bob Riley's Gambling Connections Extend
to Family Members
By Roger Shuler for Legal Schnauzer
....In the weeks leading up to the 60 Minutes piece, it became known
that Alabama attorney and GOP whistleblower Jill Simpson was going
to play a major role in the story, describing in detail the Republican
dirty tricks behind the Siegelman case. Rob Riley apparently wanted
to do an on-camera interview for 60 Minutes too, in an effort to
counter Simpson's story that the Siegelman prosecution was
orchestrated for political reasons by GOP operatives.
In his haste and arrogance, Riley apparently forgot a minor detail: Jill
Simpson knows him, and his business dealings, all too well.
Simpson worked up a list of questions that could be asked of Riley
about two organizations: an Alabama-based company called
Crimsonica and a Virginia-based company called Triad Management
Services. The list of questions made their way to a key person at 60
Minutes, and when Riley learned about some of the questions that
might be put to him, he suddenly decided that an on-camera interview
wasn't such a good idea after all.
Let's focus first on Crimsonica because that is what ties Rob Riley to
gambling. The story unfolded in 2002 when a Birmingham
businessman named William Cobb "Chip" Hazelrig gave $10,000 to
Bob Riley's campaign for governor. The campaign returned the
money when it discovered that Hazelrig was a stockholder in Paragon
Gaming, which was formed in 2000 to help Indian tribes organize
casino gambling on their reservations.
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