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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lawsuit claims Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford walked with a rigged bingo jackpot
2009-10-02
A Tuskegee woman is suing Milton McGregor's VictoryLand electronic bingo operation, alleging fraud when employees there escorted Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford to specific machines last month when he won more than $50,000.

Sandra Howard's lawsuit in Macon County Circuit Court alleges that Langford won the money Aug. 28. That's 11 days after a federal magistrate in Birmingham ruled that Langford was unable to pay his attorneys in a federal bribery case, ordering the government to cover his legal bills.

The lawsuit names Macon County Greyhound Park Inc. and its operating names of VictoryLand and Quincy's 777 as defendants. Langford is not listed as a defendant, though most of the allegations revolve around him.

The lawsuit claims VictoryLand rigged the machines for Langford "in hopes of receiving political favor and to promote approval of business dealings" for affiliates of the Macon County Greyhound Park.

The suit echoes claims in an unresolved 2007 suit filed by Cynthia Teel against VictoryLand. In that case, an Oct. 23, 2008, affidavit from a VictoryLand employee says officials at the Shorter facility manipulated a machine to guarantee payouts to certain people, including Langford, from 2006 to 2008.

At the time, Langford called the Teel action "the most ridiculous lawsuit I have ever seen."

Birmingham lawyer Ted Mann represents both Howard and Teel. Efforts to reach Mann and attorneys for VictoryLand were unsuccessful Tuesday.

Michael Rasmussen, Langford's attorney in the federal criminal case, had no comment Tuesday on the claims in Howard's suit. Efforts to reach Langford were unsuccessful.

Langford is set to go on trial Oct. 19 in federal court in Tuscaloosa to face charges that he accepted bribes during his term as Jefferson County Commission president.

Prosecutors claim Langford steered county financing business and $7.1 million in fees to Montgomery investment banker Bill Blount. In return, prosecutors charge, Blount gave Langford $236,000 in cash, clothes and jewelry, sometimes using lobbyist and Langford friend Al LaPierre as a go-between.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Found it, the word S*L*O*T has to be spelled with a Zero.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-10-02 23:30  

#5  A couple of yeaars ago, Wife was playing a sl0t machine at one of the gulf coast Casin0s, when thee was something wrong with the machine developed some kind of problem.
The attendants were right on it and asked Missus to wait a moment then opened the machine, poked in it's innards and called a repairman, closed the front AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, the repair guy showed up, opened it up and checked something,AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, then he replaced something,AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, then they closed it and locked it, AND THE REELS ALL SPUN AND STOPPED AT THE EXACT SAME SETING AS BEFORE THEY OPENED IT, yup that's 4 timres.

I told wife to get up and leave right now, she was being cheated, we left.

I'm familiar with CNC lathes and Milling machines repeating the same motions over and over thousands of times with a preciseness of one-ten thousandths of an inch accuracy.

Obviously the Slot Machines use the same programming.

CHEAT, well depends on whether or not you own the machine, obviously they CAN be programmed to give the results THEY WANT, t's NOT "Random" as claimed.

I'll also note the Sl0ts are hard wired into the Casin0s Office, so programming "On the Fly" is entirly posible, in fact Probable.

Did they "Cheat" and allow him to win, Probably, but there's no way to prove it, such progrmming is NOT RECORDED.
Second try
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-10-02 23:29  

#4  So,my comments are NOT being allowed, I'll look for Banned Words and try again.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-10-02 23:26  

#3  The article doesn't mention Mayor Langford's party affiliation. I wonder why....
Posted by: Beavis   2009-10-02 08:43  

#2  Behold the "K" factor.
Posted by: Besoeker in Duitsland   2009-10-02 07:10  

#1  Plain old graft. Nothing to see here.
Posted by: gromky   2009-10-02 05:24  

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