Man, this guy is having a bad day. Can you imagine being the Chief Law Enforcement officer of a state and having the police come take you to jail?
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Alabama governor JAILED on charges stemming from his extramarital affair
-Robert Bentley, 74, has been booked on two misdemeanor charges
-Bentley was processed on two campaign and ethics charges Monday afternoon
-Governor was expected to resign Monday afternoon rather than be impeached
-One-time Baptist deacon had an affair with an aide that he tried to cover up
-His wife of 50 years discovered the affair thanks to his iCloud and divorced him
By Associated Press
10 April 2017
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has been booked on two misdemeanor charges that arose from the investigation of alleged affair with a top aide.
A booking log at the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office website shows Bentley was processed on two campaign and ethics charges Monday afternoon.
A mugshot released by the jail shows Bentley smiling slightly, his head cocked slightly to the right.
Bentley is expected to resign Monday.
Alabama's Ethics Commission last week found probable cause that Bentley violated state ethics laws with his handling of an alleged affair and referred the case to prosecutors.
Bentley was expected to resign rather than risk impeachment over allegations he abused his powers to cover up an extramarital affair with a top aide Rebekah Mason.
The mild-mannered 74-year-old Republican and one-time Baptist deacon was said to be at peace with that decision.
Bentley, 74, tried to cover up his affair with Rebekah Mason, an aide. He denied it was physical but texted about the joy he got fondling her breasts
The sex-tinged scandal gathered force over the past few days and legislators turned up the pressure by opening impeachment hearings Monday.
Bentley had steadfastly refused to resign, even though it appeared he had practically no support in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
Bentley, a staunch family-values conservative who won two terms partly because of his reputation for moral rectitude, was first engulfed in scandal last year after recordings surfaced of him making sexually charged comments to 45-year-old political adviser Rebekah Caldwell Mason.
An investigative report prepared for the House Judiciary Committee and released last week said Bentley encouraged an 'atmosphere of intimidation' to keep the story under wraps and directed law enforcement officers to track down and seize the recordings.
The report portrayed the governor as paranoid and obsessed with trying to keep the relationship secret.
The committee on Monday started what was expected to be days of hearings.
His wife Dianne Bentley, seen here in 2014, discovered the transgressions thanks to the iCloud, when messages appeared on an iPad she was using
Bentley lawyer Ross Garber had argued that impeachment should be reserved for only the 'most grave misconduct,' noting that only two U.S. governors have been impeached since 1929, and both were indicted for serious felonies.
The investigative report contained text messages that the governor sent to Mason.
They were intercepted by Bentley's then-wife, Dianne Bentley, who was able to read the messages because they also showed up on the governor's state-issued iPad, which he had given her.
He didn't realized they were had linked up thanks to his iCloud.
'I sure miss you. I need you. I want you. You are the only one,' one message read.
He has denied having a physical relationship with his former aide, though in some of the recordings he talked about the pleasure he got from fondling her breasts.
Dianne Bentley divorced her husband in 2015 after 50 years of marriage.
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