Bentley bought multiple disposable 'burner' cell phones at Tuscaloosa Best Buy, employees say

[brooklynite]

Source: al.com

Gov. Robert Bentley personally bought multiple inexpensive, disposable cell phones last year at a Best Buy in Tuscaloosa, according to current and former employees of the electronics store.

The revelation that Bentley purchased disposable "burner" phones comes as he attempts to politically recover from allegations by former Alabama Law Enforcement Agency head Spencer Collier that Bentley had a sexual relationship with former top political adviser Rebekah Caldwell Mason.

Collier told AL.com last week that while he worked for Bentley, the governor was a text message user and frequently changed cell phones.

Read more: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/bentley_bought_multiple_dispos.html

[hobbit709]

1. Anyone with any brains would have known to pay CASH for a burner phone.

[drm604]

2. He may have.

The article doesn't say how he paid for it.

[jberryhill]

3. And get someone else to buy them

Purchases of some items can be keyed directly to video surveillance.

...and don't have them turned on near one's residence or other frequent locations.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. I'd expect that even a few retail clerks (and I used to be one)

would recognize the governor when he came up to the register carrying a bunch of cell phones.

[jberryhill]

8. Ah, yes, another rule - don't be a governor

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Clerks whispering to each other:

Isn't that the governor? Why is he buying all those phones?

[bluedigger]

18. No, you buy them yourself at 4AM at a corner store.

You don't involve other people, or buy them somewhere you will be recognized and remembered.

[whistler162]

22. Wearing a long closed trench coat, white socks,

sneakers, and shorts.

[MADem]

4. LOL--he watched THE WIRE!!!!

Instead of arranging for drugs, he was arranging for LOVIN....!!!!

[Chakab]

11. He didn't pay close enough attention to realize that you should always pay cash and buy from

different stores every time out.

[MADem]

20. And send young kids to make the purchases!!! nt

[AxionExcel]

5. Republicans hiding from the light of day. As usual.

They have so much to hide from the people of the usa.

[Cryptoad]

13. They are like Roaches,,,,,

turn on the light and they run for cover!

[forest444]

6. One for each of his family values, I take it.

[yellowcanine]

9. I thought only drug dealers, spies, gangsters and terrorists used "burner phones."

Which one is Bentley?

[NCjack]

12. You left his category off the list. He is a cockroach. /nt

[The Second Stone]

15. Cockroaches do not buy burner phones. Stop maligning

cockroaches. Thas jus nasty. Comparing cockroaches to to human scum.

[NCjack]

21. Well, it appears that Gov. Cockroach (AL-R) did buy multiple burner phones. /nt

[Cryptoad]

14. After listening to the recordings

all I can say is I have never talked to someone like he talked to her, unless I am having a sexual relationship with them! AL Family Values!

[NurseJackie]

16. Clearly he's not been watching House of Cards ...

... always have someone ELSE buy your burner phones, always pay with cash, never buy from the same store more than once.

Sheesh!

[paulkienitz]

17. the usual transparent excuses

"the governor was a text message user and frequently changed cell phones."

And he used them with a wide stance. On the appalachian trail.

[central scrutinizer]

19. Mason: "I want to spend more time with my family"

Translation: it's all true and more sordid than you can imagine

[trof]

23. Bentley is dead man walking. He's toast.