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Article: INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA ON DEC. 1: BIRMINGHAM MAYOR LANGFORD, INVESTMENT BANKER BLOUNT, LOBBYIST LAPIERRE INDICTED $7.6 MILLION SOUGHT IN FORFEITURE FOR BRIBERY SCHEME

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December 1, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Alabama issued the following press release:

LARRY P. LANGFORD, 62, Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, and former President of the Jefferson County, Alabama, Commission, WILLIAM B. BLOUNT, 55, a Montgomery, Alabama, investment banker, and ALBERT W. LAPIERRE, 58, a lobbyist in Birmingham, Alabama, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns in connection with a long-running bribery scheme related to bond and other financial transactions of Jefferson County. The 101 count federal indictment was unsealed this morning in U.S. District Court according to ...

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