Fired official makes accusations against Alabama governor

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s former law enforcement director is lodging a series of messy accusations against his former boss, a day after he was fired.

Former Law Enforcement Secretary Spencer Collier said during a Wednesday press conference that he believed the governor had an inappropriate relationship with a female staffer. He says Bentley once told him he was in love with the woman.

Collier says another law enforcement officer played a recorded conversation for him in which Bentley is heard making sexual remarks to a female. However, Collier acknowledged that was not proof of an affair and says he was uncertain who the other person in the conversation was.

Collier made the accusation a day after Bentley dismissed him from his duties.

The governor divorced last year after Dianne Bentley said their marriage had suffered a breakdown.