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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Weekly Staff

Katopodis Found Guilty On All Counts

Katopodis Found Guilty On All Counts

Former Birmingham City Councilor and Jefferson County Commissioner John Katopodis was convicted today on federal fraud charges relating to his involvement with a local charity, Computer Help for Kids.

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Posted on November 25th, 2008 by Matt Hooper

Birmingham No. 8 on most-dangerous list

Birmingham No. 8 on most-dangerous list

The CQ Press released their annual list of the country’s most dangerous cities and the [...]

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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Glenny Brock

London’s female killers

Looking to get your mind off the election? At 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4, [...]

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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Madison Underwood

DOJ: Katopodis arrested, charged with 97 counts

DOJ: Katopodis arrested, charged with 97 counts

Federal prosecutors announced John Katopodis was arrested this morning in Boston, and charged with 97 counts of fraud related to a non-profit he founded with Richard M. Scrushy and Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford. \
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

Feds indict Langford cohort Katopodis

Feds indict Langford cohort Katopodis

A federal grand jury has indicted John Katopodis on charges that he used a charity [...]

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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

Boo! Justice Department Press Conference 1 pm

Boo! Justice Department Press Conference 1 pm

Local Justice Department officials to announce public corruption charges later today.

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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

Siegelman Scrushy case revisited

We can tell from our site analytics that a lot of readers have been searching [...]

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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

JeffCo debt: bad to worse

Thursday night Jefferson County released the second “material event notice” in as many weeks regarding [...]

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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

Langford SEC Transcript

Birmingham Weekly has obtained a copy of Larry Langford’s first SEC interview. Get your copy here.

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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

College chancellor Johnson to plead guilty

Johnson will explain agreements with legislators and school board members. In exchange, feds won’t prosecute Johnson’s family members.

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Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

What’s next? RoboCop?

The Birmingham City Council approved T3 police scooters for cops, but some councilors were reluctant to support another Langford contract for widespread video surveillance throughout the city.

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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

NEWS: Gary White goes down

A federal jury in Montgomery has convicted former Jefferson County Commissioner Gary White on all [...]

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Posted on January 9th, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

Langford to public: Your papers please!

UPDATE APPENDED 4:20 PM: Council Admin retracts security memo.

Not that there was any question, but [...]

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Posted on November 27th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Favorite ‘graph – Vol. 11, Issue 13

I hate to play favorites among the many talented writers at Birmingham Weekly, but in [...]

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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

NEWS: Montgomery misses court

A special prosecutor wants to know whether City Councilor Joel Montgomery participated in any sort [...]

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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Kyle Whitmire

NEWS: Nunn calls it quits

Birmingham Police Chief Annetta Nunn will resign her position, the Birmingham Weekly has learned. Recently, [...]

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Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Molly Folse

More crime near UAB

The following e-mail “safety alert” was sent out to the UAB community at 3:09 p.m. [...]

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Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links in Solidarity

Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on [...]

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Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Molly Folse

Another Birmingham homicide

Kayla Nicole Fanaei, a 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student, was voted class clown [...]

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Posted on October 5th, 2007 by Glenny Brock

Weekly Digest: Oct. 4-11, 2007

THIRTY YEARS IN THE TAKING: That’s the subhead of this week’s cover story, “Larry Langford’s [...]

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Can Jefferson County break the bank?

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Jefferson County has declared war on JPMorgan.

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