Birmingham Mayor Convicted In Bribery Scheme

Larry Langford Birmingham Mayor Breaking News: A jury has convicted Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford on federal charges of accepting bribes automatically removing him from office.
by Associated Press
Published: Wed, October 28, 2009 - 4:13 pm CST Last Updated: Wed, October 28, 2009 - 4:17 pm CST
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - A jury has convicted Birmingham Mayor
Larry Langford on federal charges of accepting bribes,
automatically removing him from office.
He was convicted Wednesday of all the counts he faced for
accepting cash and luxury items worth about $236,000 while serving
as president of the Jefferson County Commission. In exchange, he
funneled $7.1 million in bond business to a prominent investment
banker.
Langford showed no emotion when the verdict was read.
With the felony conviction, he was automatically removed from
the office that he won in a landslide in 2007.
Some of the bond deals made during Langford's term went sour in
the credit crunch last year, and Jefferson County is now trying to
avoid filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history over
$3.9 billion in sewer bond debt.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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rocky311882 Says:
Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:39 pm

This is one of the reasons why the economy is so bad, the politicians are pocketing all of our money! They should make him pay every penny back!

theodore Says:
Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:46 am

just look at him, what is the surprise?

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