Montgomery (AL) attorneys ask DA to investigate AG Steve Marshall

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http://www.alreporter.com/2018/10/26/montgomery-attorneys-ask-da-to-investigate-ag-steve-marshall/

Two Montgomery attorneys on Thursday asked Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey to investigate Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s acceptance of campaign donations that appear to violate state law.

Julian McPhillips and Melissa Isaak have submitted a letter to Bailey outlining the $735,000 in donations to Marshall from the Republican Attorneys General Association and illustrating how those donations violate the state’s ban on transfers between political action committees (PACs). They’ve asked Bailey to present the case to a grand jury.

“We believe the violation is clear and someone needs to act or we’re going to be left in the same predicament we were with (Robert Bentley and Mike Hubbard),” said McPhillips, a longtime Montgomery attorney who has been active in the state’s Democratic Party for a number of years. Isaak is best known for her representation in recent years of former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.

The issue of the donations from RAGA to Marshall has been a hot topic in the race for AG since the Republican primary, when former AG Troy King, who was challenging Marshall, first filed an Alabama Ethics Commission complaint about them. That was in June, and the Ethics Commission has not taken up the matter.