Montgomery investment banker Bill Blount told a federal jury in Tuscaloosa that he arranged loans and paid money to Larry Langford, beginning in the months before Langford became president of the Jeff

I knew Larry Langford was in trouble after the prayer vigil. Not that our mayor, innocent until tweeted guilty, hasn’t faced adversity on a fairly regular basis, but I hadn’t had any real sense of for

Langford Trial Live Blog: Day 4

Testimony about bond deals and the minutia of derivatives visibly exhausted jurors Wednesday morning. However, in the afternoon, the public corruption trial of Mayor Larry Langford turned toward some

Prosecutors spent Wednesday morning slogging through bond documents, swap agreements and Jefferson County Commission minutes with former county Finance Director Steve Sayler. Much the the testimony wa

Langford Trial Live Blog: Day 3

Larry Langford's defense lawyer, Mike Rasmussen, took the small, black file box and dropped it on the table in front of the jury. Just a little bigger than a shoebox, it made an angry plop that echoed

Former Jefferson County Finance Director Steve Sayler told a federal jury Tuesday that Larry Langford understood transactions the county engaged in when Langford served as commission president. [ca

Larry Langford has been a deceitful, greedy politician who deprived his constituents of honest services by taking bribes from friends in exchange for lucrative bond business ... Or ... Larry Lan

Langford Trial Live Blog: Day 2