Larry Langford Sentencing is 15 years
Larry Langford
CBS reports:
Mr. Langford will have to report on April 5, 2010 at noon to start his sentence. He will have to wear an ankle bracelet, and not leave Jefferson County while he prepares to serve his sentence.
Langford was convicted of accepting cash and expensive clothes and jewelry from investment banker Bill Blount — with lobbyist Al LaPierre was the middleman — in exchange for Langford steering county bond business to Blount’s Montgomery firm.
Al.com reports:
A federal jury in Tuscaloosa convicted Langford in October on 60 counts including bribery, fraud and money laundering related to his time as Jefferson County Commission president. Prosecutors are asking for a sentence of 24 to 30 years, $241,843 in forfeiture and that Langford pay $119,985 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
[…] was no surprise to many when Langford was later arrested for bribery and money laundering. He has now been sentenced to 15 years for 60 counts of fraud, bribery and money laundering. If only he’d remembered to […]