Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant in Alabama - Latest Attempts at Circumvention of Law By Nuclear Development, LLC
[Learn more about Memphis billionaire Franklin Haney's attempts at high-level lobbying of President Trump, and ultra-wealthy investors, for regulatory approvals and financial favors, in order to open the nuclear power plant. Haney retained Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen to carry out the lobbying, as discussed in Cohen's recently published book, Disloyal: A Memoir (The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump), Skyhorse Publishing, September 2020. Haney offered Cohen "a broker fee of $10M, plus a sizable fifteen percent interest in the company," for his lobbying efforts, Cohen writes. Cohen's lobbying efforts, on behalf of Haney's nuclear power plant scheme, and other clients, were reported about contemporaneously in the news media at the time.]
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