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Did Houston County Alabama Circuit Judge, Larry Keith Anderson sell his court to Regions Bank (Regions Financial, is a publicly held corporation and operates in sixteen states)? After six years in Houston County Court, Theodore (Ted) Bauman, local real estate investor and jewelry store owner's estate is still in question.
The bulk of the court proceedings are against Regions by Bauman's daughter, Kathryn B. Rubenstein. Undaunted that seven years after her father's death, she has continued to be denied by the court an accounting of her father's estate & Trust(CV02-5063) and of her living Mother's Trust(CV01-5013). Rubenstein has continued to investigate why three consecutive judges assigned to the case, beginning with Judge Anderson, have either refused or ignored formal requests for an independent accounting.
Rubenstein recently uncovered public financial records filed by Judge Anderson with the State of Alabama showing Anderson's ownership of stock in Regions Financial for every year he presided over Rubenstein's actions up to and including 2007. Public records also indicate numerous mortgages and releases involving Judge Anderson while he presided over the Bauman's finances. Approximately six hundred thousand dollars, ($600,000.00) in mortgages and releases were issued by Regions Financial by and through its defense firm, Farmer Price Hornsby & Weatherford while Anderson presided over Rubenstein's legal causes. Attorney Joel Weatherford of the same firm also defends Rubenstein's two sisters and their spouses in the Bauman- Rubenstein proceedings.
Did Anderson seek to protect Regions by denying they answer pertinent interrogatories and discovery in the case? Motions were denied which requested handwriting samples of certain defendants in order to allow renowned forensic handwriting expert, Dr. Richard Roper, the opportunity to substantiate who in fact had signed documents purported to be those of Ted Bauman which included Bauman's Last Will & Testament, Trust, power of attorney and several real estate and loan documents. The documents in question were allegedly signed by Bauman while he was a patient in a local nursing home due to a stroke and Alzheimer's disease
An advisory opinion by Alabama's Judicial Inquiry Commission regarding a judge's stock ownership states in part; "(1) A judge should disqualify himself in a proceeding in which his disqualification is required by law or his impartiality might reasonable be questioned, including but not limited to instances where:
(c) He knows that he....has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding."
Based on this Canon, the Commission has previously held that a judge's ownership of stock interest in a corporation disqualifies him from sitting in a proceeding involving the corporation. (86-249)
Did Judge Larry Anderson sell out to Regions to prevent Rubenstein and her brother, Jeff Bauman from receiving their rightful inheritance and to protect those who committed forgeries and other torts? Anderson's actions question the impartiality of court proceedings in Alabama.
