[2] In another close election for the Supreme Court, Rove and Canary successfully halted the vote recount in poor areas of Alabama.
[2] Canary was among those accused of bribing Hubbard once he became Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, and was made to testify at trial.
[2] Currently, there are ongoing claims that Canary and his wife investigated former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman for political reasons.
[3] A Republican activist, lawyer Dana Jill Simpson of Rainsville, Alabama, filed a sworn statement saying that she was on a Republican campaign conference call in 2002 when she heard Bill Canary tell other campaign workers not to worry about Siegelman because Canary's "girls" and "Karl" would make sure the Justice Department pursued the Democrat so he was not a political threat in the future.
[5] "Just as importantly, I've never spoken to Karl Rove or the Department of Justice about prosecuting Don Siegelman.