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Non-Profit doesn’t have to mean penniless, as recent reporting from al.com and the Wall Street Journal informs us. In fact, over 2,700 individuals from across the United States received compensation from a non-profit in excess of $1 million during 2014, the last year consistent data is available. In Alabama, there…
Memphis, TN Car Accident Lawyer Interstate 40 travels through the entire state of Tennessee, from west to east. I-40 begins at the Arkansas border, from the Mississippi River, to North Carolina, at the northern base of the Great Smoky Mountains, connecting the three largest cities in the state—Memphis, Nashville, and…
A Texas man was recently indicted in an appalling case of financial elder abuse that happened in Madison County, AL, according to a report from al.com. The federal indictment alleges that Dwayne Elllis Baptiste concocted a scheme to steal $545,000 from a retired Lockheed Martin employee who is now deceased. Baptiste became acquainted with the elderly man, Ralph Swinehart, as well as his son, Ronald Swinehart, in 2011. Both Swineharts died within a few days of each other in October of 2011. In order to carry out the scheme, Batiste filed a fraudulent Power of Attorney in Madison County Probate Court, and then proceeded to empty the senior Mr. Swinehart’s retirement accounts. If convicted, the maximum penalties for the crimes include 20 years in jail and a fine of up to $1 million. Although this case involved a violation of federal law, Alabama has criminalized the exploitation of elderly people through the Protecting Alabama’s Elders Act. The law makes first degree intentional elder abuse a class A felony. Ala. Code § 38-9E-3. Financial abuse of an elderly person in the first degree, which includes cases of theft over $2,500, is a Class B felony under the law. Ala. Code § 38-9E-6.
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Across the center of the state of Alabama, Interstate 20 extends about 215 miles, entering the state from Mississippi, then traveling in a northeastern direction through Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. For more than half of its distance (from the Mississippi border to near the Birmingham International Airport), I-20 overlaps with I-59.…
As early as the 1950’s, a Memphis-to-Birmingham expressway was being discussed, however it was not until 20 years later that it moved beyond discussions. Congress approved the part of I-22 east of Fulton, Mississippi as “Corridor X” in 1978, and parts of I-22 have been under construction ever since. Public…
