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| Ex Birmingham Mayor Gets 15 Years for Bribery; City Pays Price |
| 2010-03-07 |
| BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Residents here were not terribly surprised on Friday when Larry Langford, the former mayor, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $360,000 by a federal judge, ending a long-running bribery case that shook local government and state Democratic politics. But Mr. Langford provided one last jolt to the city just before his sentencing. In an unrelated lawsuit this week, it was revealed that he had somehow won hundreds of jackpots at a bingo casino owned by a supporter, adding $1.5 million to his income, according to his tax returns. The back-to-back stories spread quickly across Birmingham, generating ridicule, disbelief and disgust, on blogs and at office water coolers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 As a Detroiter, it looks like every major city in the country is a Democrat run cesspool of corruption. The common factor is "Democrat run". |
| Posted by: Formerly Dan 2010-03-07 12:48 |
| #4 "ending a long-running bribery case that shook local government and state Democratic politics" Not this time, abu. Shocked me too.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-07 12:17 |
| #3 Jailhouse by Sublime Welcome to the Big House Larry .... Jailhouse by Bob Marley |
| Posted by: Phiper Glerenter2059 2010-03-07 10:44 |
| #2 is this another episode of 'name that party'? |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-03-07 02:16 |
| #1 The WSJ added this: Mr. Langford was accused of telling major Wall Street banks J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp. and the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers to include Blount's investment banking firm if they wanted to handle the county's bond work...Mr. Blount's Montgomery firm was accused of making $7.1 million off the bond deals with Jefferson County. The bonds were part of risky financing of sewer debt that has grown to more than $3 billion and pushed Alabama's most populous county to the brink of filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Nothing in the news about criminal investigations of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, etc. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-03-07 01:08 |