MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A 228-page special counsel report that led to Tuesday’s firing of a top Mobile police official offers a detailed critique of the city’s relationship with a company formed at about the same time it got a contract.
The report, prepared by attorney Bill Athanas at the behest of the Mobile City Council, questions how much work the firm did for that contract and accuses the fired official, Kevin Levy, of violating the state’s forgery law.
Those are accusations that Levy’s lawyer strongly denies.
As detailed by Athanas, Jonni Baker formed 321z Insights in October, just as the limited liability company was negotiating a consulting contract with Levy on behalf of a quasi-independent cyber intelligence agency called the Gulf Coast Technology Center.
“The process undertaken to create and execute the 321z Contract was anomalous,” the report concluded.
It added that the contract was “a negotiation process well outside of customary and expected practice.”
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