Dean Alford

|birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia |alma_mater = Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) |known_for = President and CEO of Allied Energy Services, LLC [http://www.alliedenergyllc.com]; American politician and businessman }} Clarence "Dean" Alford (born July 17, 1953) is a former Republican Party member of the Georgia General Assembly and convicted criminal.

Alford is the president and chief executive officer of Allied Energy Services, LLC and spokesman for Power4Georgians, LLC, which company was originally organized by an employee of Allied Energy Services, LLC. Power4Georgians seeks to develop several Coal-fired power plants in Georgia, which plants have been found to cause hundreds of thousands of early deaths each year, mainly from air pollution, with efforts of Power4Georgians resulting in some members withdrawing because of the uncertainty over carbon emissions, resulting in possible corruption, resulting in an organizer of Power4Georgians being indicted for theft and racketeering, and resulting in an administrative law judge's ruling that environmental regulators had failed to properly review a proposed coal-fired power plant's plans that could affect water quality.

The State of Georgia arrested Alford on allegations he forged a state employee’s signature, committed racketeering, and filed fraudulent invoices to show account collectibles of $2,200,000 in taxpayer and other companies' funds for his company, Allied Energy Services, LLC., to sell the false collectibles at a discount to Versant, a collectibles purchaser.

Alford is also a defendant in two federal lawsuits, one by multiple investors accusing him of operating a Ponzi scheme, and one by creditors, while in July 2020, he agreed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to the entry of a consent judgment that he violated federal anti-fraud laws by running the Ponzi scheme. Provided by Wikipedia