Alabama governor sued in latest fallout from scandal

Spencer Collier, who the day after his firing accused Bentley of having an affair with an adviser, says in the lawsuit that Bentley and the adviser, Rebekah Mason, made misleading statements to the media to try to discredit him.

Bentley has previously said Collier was fired after an internal review found a misuse of funds at the state law enforcement agency.

Collier's lawsuit accuses the governor of firing him because the two disagreed over a request to file an affidavit saying investigators found no evidence of misconduct by prosecutors in the ethics case against House Speaker Mike Hubbard.

Among the charges Hubbard faces is using his public office to benefit his clients by lobbying the governor's office.

The governor's new law enforcement secretary, Stan Stabler, said last week that it was Collier who sent a state helicopter in 2014 to fly Bentley's forgotten wallet from his hometown in Tuscaloosa to his beach house at Fort Morgan.