Birmingham Ex-Mayor Gets 15 Years in Prison

Wall Street Journal ^ | Mar 5, 2010 | AP

[Gabrial]

Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for taking some $235,000 in bribes in return for lucrative bond work.

U.S. District Judge Scott Coogler imposed the sentence on Langford, 63, who told the court, "I am sorry all this has occurred."

[AzaleaCity5691]

This is Alabama. He’s not credible and neither is Les Phillip. I know it will anger any supporters Les has on here but the truth is the truth.

If Democrats are to lose the legislature this year they’re losing it for one reason and one reason alone and we all know what it is. That’s why they’re trying so hard to make national issues irrelevant this year and its why Bedford pushed through that gun bill in the Senate

[Prole]

Larry Langford, Jeremiah Wright, Ray Nagin, Barack Obama, Kwame Kilpatrick, Charles Rangel, Marion Berry, Tiger Woods, Al Sharpton, Sheila Dixon, Spike Lee and OJ Simpson all walk into a bar together...

[Prole]

Please keep in mind that the Associated Press is the same damn democrat-friendly organization that refers to the Taliban terrorists as "Resistance Fighters."

[AmericanArchConservative]

They’ve run both the Light rail scam and the sewer project scam on Portland, Oregon, and taxpayers in the tri-county metropolitan area. They pushed and pushed unsuccessfully on the stadium project (Portland has neither a pro football nor ML baseball team), but they really did not have to, since they pulled the Light Rail scam not once, not twice, not three times, or even four

They have crammed it down the throats of unwilling taxpaying voters SIX times!!

First was an eastside only line twenty plus years ago, then later of course they had to have one for the westside (tunneled through over a mile of solid rock at budget-breaking cost) since after all, the west side had the worse traffic congestion problem, what with the Nike and Intel campuses located out there...

Then it was a “spur” line of “just a few miles” to service the PDX airport. A think tank did a feasibility study that proved it would have been cheaper to have 10 passenger stretch limousines making that loop 24/7/265 including all vehicle maintenance and replacement costs, a driver salaried at $20/hour with full health insurance and pension benefits, IRA etc.

After that, they pressed for an extension from the “Rose quarter/convention center area into the North Portland “hood”...

and an extension from the airport/gateway interchange along the I-205 corridor, to the Clackamas Mall, and on to the (protesting, unwilling) Portland suburb of Milwaukie.

and an extension of the North Portland line across the Columbia river into downtown Vancouver, Washington - again over the ignored protests of Vancouver voters...

And the people in government cannot seem to figure out why (on top of the socialized medicine Oregon Health Plan) the state is going broke on the heels of tax increase after jobs/growth-stifling tax increase.

They could actually, but they would never admit it.

A.A.C.

[americanophile]

It's you. They didn't forget to mention that he's a Democrat.

[investigateworld]

Whatever happened to the black democrat politician who stashed money in his freezer and had the National Guard drive him to pick it up during Katrina?? I don’t remember hearing the outcome.

He voted with the Republicans on the BK Reform act, which made him tops in their books.

But the system finally caught up with him and he is now a guest in the Graybar Hotel....

[Erasmus]

I guess this means the Birmingham Mayor Mafia will not be able to tax and spend his way to his dream of the ONE billion dollar domed football stadium [..]

I can just see de Mayor saying that with malicious grin, palm outward, and pinky extended toward corner of mouth.