FBI Indicts Mayor of Birmingham Alabama for Criminal Activity
The community of Birmingham is shocked, when on Monday, December 1st, 2008, the FBI arrested the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, Larry Langford age 62, on federal charges including conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns.
Mayor Larry Langford, is named in an indictment that alleges criminal activity while he was a county commissioner. Langford was President of the Jefferson County Commission and head of its department of finance and general services from November 2002 until about November 2006. The community of Birmingham, Alabama, is split on backing Mayor Langford against these charges. It appears that the FBI has a pretty good case against all three men.
The FBI Indicts Mayor of Birmingham Alabama and allege that Larry Langford sold his public office to his friends and political supporters. The FBI have served a 101 count indictment against Larry Langford and his so-called co-horts, William Blount, 55, a Montgomery, Alabama, investment banker, and William Blount, 58, Albert LaPierre, a Birmingham lobbyist, neither of whom are returning calls at this moment.
The FBI alleges that Mayor Langford steered lucrative business to William Blount and his company and he, in turn, earned in excess of $7.1 million and, with the help of lobbyist Albert LaPierre, they ensured that Larry Langford’s crushing personal debts were paid off through payoffs of loans, store charge accounts, purchases of clothing and jewelry and other items of value that exceeded $230,000 over a period from 2002 to 2006. The walls of Jericho are tumbling down…
The community of Birmingham is shocked as they read that the allegations go back as far as 1996, when a consent decree entered into by the commission to bring Jefferson County into compliance with the Clean Water Act, which required authorizing billions of dollars in transactions. So, this Billion Dollar Sewer Deal has sealed these three men’s fate, as the proverbial sewer stuff hits the fan…
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