Politics

Alabama Mayor Gets 15 Years In Jail

The once-powerful Alabama politician who blamed his recent corruption conviction on racism and vindictive prosecutors will spend 15 years in jail for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. A heavyweight in the local Democrat Party, disgraced Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was convicted by a federal jury last fall of 60 corruption charges, including bribery, conspiracy, fraud and money laundering. The influential lawmaker orchestrated a massive pay-to-play scheme in which he traded hefty bribes for coveted public contracts and county sewer bond deals worth millions of dollars.
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Posted by Editor at March 15, 2010 12:43 AM