Steven McKinney, a former chair of the American Bar Association’s section on environmental energy and resources, has been charged with fellow Balch & Bingham partner Joel Gilbert and a coal mining company executive in an alleged bribery scheme involving former Alabama state Rep. Oliver Robinson Jr.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama announced Thursday that the two Balch & Bingham partners had been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bribery, conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud as a result of their involvement in an alleged plan to have Robinson oppose an environmental cleanup plan in Birmingham, Alabama.
