This is looking ever shadier

Developer's Tuskegee deal failed

So apparently this "consultant", Carol Hatcher, was going to build a hotel in Tuskegee but the city withdrew from the project because her secret financiers couldn't be verified.

A Birmingham city councilman says that he is backing Hatcher until someone can prove she's not legitimate. I think he might want to be a little more careful. This whole thing is getting disturbing.