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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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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Read the rest of this entry »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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Feds indict Langford cohort Katopodis
A federal grand jury has indicted John Katopodis on charges that he used a charity [...]
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Local Justice Department officials to announce public corruption charges later today.
Read the rest of this entry »Siegelman Scrushy case revisited
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Read the rest of this entry »JeffCo debt: bad to worse
Thursday night Jefferson County released the second “material event notice” in as many weeks regarding [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Langford SEC Transcript
Birmingham Weekly has obtained a copy of Larry Langford’s first SEC interview. Get your copy here.
Read the rest of this entry »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.
Read the rest of this entry »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.
Read the rest of this entry »NEWS: Gary White goes down
A federal jury in Montgomery has convicted former Jefferson County Commissioner Gary White on all [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Langford to public: Your papers please!
UPDATE APPENDED 4:20 PM: Council Admin retracts security memo.
Not that there was any question, but [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Favorite ‘graph – Vol. 11, Issue 13
I hate to play favorites among the many talented writers at Birmingham Weekly, but in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »NEWS: Montgomery misses court
A special prosecutor wants to know whether City Councilor Joel Montgomery participated in any sort [...]
Read the rest of this entry »NEWS: Nunn calls it quits
Birmingham Police Chief Annetta Nunn will resign her position, the Birmingham Weekly has learned. Recently, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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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Member papers of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) this week are providing links on [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Another Birmingham homicide
Kayla Nicole Fanaei, a 20-year-old University of Alabama at Birmingham student, was voted class clown [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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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