Accusations in Alabama governor impeachment investigation

Published 10:30 am Monday, April 10, 2017

MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is accused of using state resources to hide his affair with a top aide and faces impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee on Monday.

The committee’s special counsel detailed the evidence in an investigative report posted online that includes text messages, documents and audio. The governor’s lawyer said it is an “amalgam of hearsay, rumor and innuendo.”

Here are some of the evidence and accusations.

TEXT MESSAGES

“I sure miss you. I need you. I want you. You are the only one,” the governor said in a text message to Rebekah Caldwell Mason, his top aide at the time.

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The governor’s then-wife, Dianne Bentley, was able to read the text messages because they also showed up on his state-issued iPad, which he had given the first lady. Dianne Bentley provided the messages to the committee.