Alabama One Credit Union executives convinced Danny Butler to sue the Alabama Credit Union Administration in 2011 to forestall an effort to investigate the cooperative's ongoing loans to him, according to Butler's sworn testimony offered during a bankruptcy hearing.
Some of those same or similar loans were part of an 18-page cease and desist order that the agency issued April 2, 2015, and that the cooperative will appeal administratively on June 9.
The executives also recommended one of the credit union's frequently used lawyers, James Don Turner of the Tuscaloosa, Ala. firm of Turner and Turner, to represent Butler, Butler alleged. Butler told the court that he never received a bill for Turner's services.
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