Steve Russo Scandal
In the Summer of 2004, Callahan wrote a letter to State Lands Director James Hillman Griggs complaining that Federal Coastal Zone Management pass through grant money that had been entrusted to the City of Orange Beach for beach development was not going to the intended recipients. Griggs cancelled the grant and additional funding that had been requested by Orange Beach Mayor Steve Russo and City Attorney Larry Sutley. The United States Department of Justice initiated an investigation and in 2006, Mayor Russo and Attorney Sutley were convicted in what is viewed as a political payback prosecution.
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