Category: Alabama

When delivering a check isn’t just delivering a check

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 11, 2010
Categories In Alabama

MPR News covers Gov. Pawlenty’s role in delivering a $100,000 check from Bob Perry to the Alamaba Republican Party.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford convicted

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 29, 2009
Categories In Alabama

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was convicted in his corruption trial yesterday, according to this Times report. A jury took less than two hours to determine that as president of the Jefferson County Commission, Mr. Langford accepted more than $230,000 in cash, expensive clothing and jewelry in exchange for steering $7.1 million in county bond business […]

Larry Langford update

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 19, 2009
Categories In Alabama

Here’s an AP story on charges against Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. Prosecutors claim a greedy, power-drunk Langford accepted bribes totaling some $235,000 – a chunk of it for upscale clothes and jewelry – while serving as president of the Jefferson County Commission before he was elected mayor. In exchange, they say, Langford steered $7.1 million […]