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Attorney of self proclaimed “whistleblower” speaks to 48 News following Tuesday’s indictment State superintendent responds to indictments By Kate Smith | February 24, 2021 at 6:40 PM CST - Updated February 24 at 9:11 PM HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - On Wednesday, the attorney of the man who claims he is the whistleblower of a multi-year greed-driven scheme in Limestone County tells 48 News his client, who was trying to do the right thing by alerting the authorities, has been tre...

>> reporter: because this is your next appointment. who are you meeting with? >> doctor, uh -- >> he doesnt have the knowledge. he could never speak with that much definition or detail. >> reporter: this doctor? >> yeah. >> reporter: this is the confession, six pages in the first person handwritten by sbi agent mark isley who testified it was taken down verbatim. a transcript of what floyd had told him. the only thing floyd wrote down on his confession was his name. spelled wrong. what specifics...

Brown case, mark isley was promoted. now hes under investigation. we wanted to ask him about this. this six-page confession that he says floyd brown dictated to him. verbatim. but isley is not talking. >> over the years, mark isley climbed the ladder at the sbi, and today he supervises other sbi agents in the medicaid fraud unit. and his case wasnt even investigated internally by the sbi until later this summer after our series ran. >> reporter: the news and observer reporters werent the only on...

>> "i was framed." yeah. >> chief complaint -- "i was framed." >> reporter: when he entered these doors, he also entered into a kind of legal limbo, accused of murder but unable to have his day in court. floyd brown was developmentally disabled. he had the mind of a 7-year-old and was ruled incompetent to stand trial. the only evidence against floyd was a confession he had signed misspelling his own name. >> the details in that confession were so elaborate and so detailed that everyone who knows...

>> over the last 20 years a culture has developed at the sbi that basically the ends justify the means. and if law enforcement, local law enforcement, tell the sbi that so and so is their man, then the sbi is going to go out and find whatever evidence they can. and if they cant find any, in floyds case they couldnt, they manufactured it. >> reporter: floyd is still upset about his encounter with sbi agent mark isley. >> he kept saying, i dont like your attitude. mark isley saying he dont like my...