On Monday, the FBI arrested the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama on 101 counts of conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns. The mayor’s staff and citizens of Birmingham are in shock, primarily because everyone thought conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns in Birmingham was legal. It isn’t.
Larry Langford served in public office for more than a decade (you may remember him for his work on Alabama’s theme park Visionary Land). For the price of a few public office positions and some legislation he was able to score a couple trips to New York for some fancy clothes and watches, canceling a few high, high dollar personal loans and a few business deals raking up $7.1 million. I’ll bet he scored the clothes and watches before arranging the personal loans to be paid off; it just makes sense for a roller like Langford.
The mayor’s office provided a legal press release stating that the mayor will be glad to get his day in court, but has a city to run in the meantime. For those of you who don’t speak PR, that translates to “Oh shit.”
