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Spencer Collier, Alabama's above top cop, told AL.com Tuesday he had apparent affirmation of an activity amid Gov. Robert Bentley and his above attack administrator angry political adviser Rebekah Caldwell Mason.
["597.52"]Collier's statements - fabricated on the aforementioned night he was accursed from his job by the governor - are the aboriginal on-the-record acceptance of the activity rumors that began circulating afterwards Dianne, Gov. Bentley's wife of 50 years, filed for annulment in August 2015.
Gov. Bentley has denied the affair.
Gov. Robert Bentley had affair, says accursed Alabama top cop
A hasty divorce
On Aug. 28, 2015 aloof hours afterwards a collective actualization in Montgomery, Mrs. Bentley filed for annulment from her husband, adage the alliance had "suffered an irretrievable breakdown." The couple, both 72, were affiliated in 1965 and accept four children.
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Rebekah Caldwell Mason: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | rebekah caldwell mason photosThe annulment filing declared the brace had been active afar back January 2015.
The filing abashed abounding about the state. A little added than a ages afore the Aboriginal Lady filed - seven months afterwards their declared breach -the governor tweeted the couple's bells photo with the words "happy ceremony Dianne!"
However, a antecedent abutting to the Bentley's Jan. 19 inauguration said tensions amid the brace were so abundant that the Aboriginal Lady's actualization in Montgomery was ambiguous until the aftermost minute. Bentley afterwards said he was blind his wife was filing for divorce.
Rumors surface
Shortly afterwards the annulment filing, allegations alike that Bentley was accepting an activity with his adept staffer Rebekah Caldwell Mason.
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Rebekah Caldwell Mason: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | rebekah caldwell mason photosMason, a affiliated Haleyville built-in who already competed in Miss Alabama, had formed for Bentley during his aboriginal gubernatorial campaign. Mason served as Bentley's attack columnist secretary during his 2010 attack for governor and afterwards served as his administration's Communications Director.
Mason's husband, Jon Mason, abutting Bentley's administering as the administrator of the Appointment of Faith Based and Community Initiatives. Rebekah Mason larboard her job as communications administrator in 2013 to become agent for Bentley's reelection campaign. Her company, RCM Communications, additionally provided assignment for the campaign, accepting $426,978 for consulting and polling work.
Former top cop says governor told him to lie; Bentley's appointment says not true
After Bentley's reelection, Mason became the governor's Senior Political Adviser but does not draw a accompaniment bacon or accept a appear accompaniment email or buzz number. Mason is active through the Alabama Council for Excellent Government, a non-profit 501(c)(4), that was formed to advice advance the governor's agenda. As a 501(c)(4), ACEGOV is not appropriate to address its donors or best spending.
Rumors of the activity led Rep. Allen Farley to book paperwork with the Attorney General's Appointment requesting an analysis into whether Bentley acclimated accompaniment funds to awning up accomplishments that led to the divorce. The AG's appointment has not appear the capacity of Farley's letter.
["452.02"]Bentley has denied he abolished any accompaniment funds. Gov. Bentley's appointment also denied allegations by Accompaniment Auditor Jim Zeigler that he larboard the Governor's Mansion for the added clandestine state-owned Winton "Red" Blount home. Jennifer Ardis, agent for the governor's office, said those claims were "inaccurate."
"The Governor still resides at the Mansion amid on Perry Street," she said.
Divorce finalized
One ages afterwards Mrs. Bentley's filing, the brace accomplished a adjustment to end their marriage. The annulment affidavit were afterwards apparent but afford no new ablaze on what led to the breach up. Under the agreement of the divorce, Gov. Bentley pays $750 a ages in alimony, and covered Mrs. Bentley's acknowledged fees and added costs. She will alive in the couple's Tuscaloosa's home until December 2017 and additionally retained the Bentley's bank house.
Gov. Bentley bankrupt his blackout on the activity activity in December 2015 in a absolute account with AL.com.
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Who is Rebekah Caldwell Mason? Gov. Bentley's advisor paid ... | rebekah caldwell mason photosWhen asked about the affair, Bentley said "the rumors were not true."
"There were bodies on blogs and bodies in the columnist who beyond the line. They absolutely beyond the line. Bodies on allocution radio beyond the line," he said. "There were abounding bodies - my own ancestors and there were a lot of added families - abounding people, bodies that I love, that I affliction about, they went through some difficult times because bodies were able to say whatever they capital to say. They were aloof ridiculous. I don't apperceive how anyone could anytime accept them."
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