October 29, 2009
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Evening Update
In an effort to defend its title as the third most corrupt State in the nation, Alabama recently anointed Larry Langford (D-Birmingham) as its latest poster child. Langford, accused of 101 accounts of conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering and falsifying tax returns was indicted on 60 of those counts Wednesday. In all, Langford is accused of receiving some $236,000 and faces up to a maximum of 805 years in federal prison.
And here’s where the story takes an ironic turn: Felon Sue Schmitz, (D-Toney) only laundered $177,251, roughly 2/3 of Langford’s plunder. For her wrongdoing Schmitz was sentence the absolute minimum of a 30 month stay in America’s finest crossbar hotels.
Yet no one (but me) is asking the tough questions: will Felon Larry Langford (D-Birmingham) and Felon Sue Schmitz (D-Toney) share a cell? Will there be conjugal visits betwixt the two? And will Langford write Letter from a Birmingham Jail, II?
There is a moral to this tale boys and girls: if you’re going to steal money, it’s best to do it in one whack because the penalty is less severe.
Comments (8)
Lol… if only you knew. It was the number of counts that got me (I only had 10 counts, but they could’ve gotten me with at least 60 or more). With just 10 counts, I was eligible for almost 200 years, so if you do the math…
I’m sure they’ll have far superior representation compared to what I could afford, nor could I pull any strings like people in their position could. And that’s what’s sick – mine was a crime only by technicality whereas they are blatantly corrupt.
@DirtyAndShaken - Andi, I thought I had you trained by now. Democrats do no wrong. You are a Conservative, ergo, you were supposed to be punished. Laws are not made for elitist Democrats. They are made for proletarians like you and me.
Or be a woman – maybe we’ve got some good, old-fashioned sexism at work!
@JJ_Ames - And racism too. Langford’s black. Felon Schmitz is white.
@ProfessorTom - sexism and racism in the U.S. government and justice system? Say it ain’t so! lol
@JJ_Ames - It was a bunch of white guys that was paying Langford off so that their banks could make all the loans to the city. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
@ProfessorTom - So he’s an Uncle Tom for Big Biz?
@JJ_Ames - No, he’s a brother bringing into the storehouse.