James helped arrange a State of Alabama-paid voluntary return to the US of Lester Coleman , a former journalist accused by the federal government of committing perjury , who had been residing in Europe . According to Redding Pitt , a federal government attorney from Montgomery , Alabama , Coleman called James , an acquaintance from the 1970s , for help in his case . Coleman promoted alternative theories regarding the Lockerbie bombing . His perjury charges stemmed from his statements about that incident . Joe Boohaker , Coleman 's attorney , said that James apparently knew Coleman from when the latter man had worked at a Birmingham , Alabama radio station
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