TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – According to Danny Butler, his criminal defense attorneys never looked into the circumstances surrounding his check kiting or the way West Alabama Bank and Trust handled the Small Business Administration loan that helped build the grocery store project in Fosters, Ala.

In fact, Butler said, they really did not seem interested in defending him at all.

Butler pleaded guilty to six counts of kiting checks and defrauding the SBA on that Fosters grocery store loan in February 2014 and began serving a 36-month sentence in a federal prison in Talladega, Ala.

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