Larry Langford, the controversial and flamboyant mayor of Birmingham, Ala., was convicted of multiple counts of bribery in a federal corruption trial in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday.

Larry Langford found guilty on all 60 counts

A jury took less than two hours to determine that as president of the Jefferson County Commission, Mr. Langford accepted more than $230,000 in cash, expensive clothing and jewelry in exchange for steering $7.1 million in county bond business to a prominent investment banker.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford arrested on federal charges

The bonds and debt restructuring destabilized the finances of the county, which includes Birmingham, and its sewer system, helping to push the county to the brink of bmayorankruptcy last year.

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Under Alabama law, the felony convictions automatically terminated Mr. Langford’s mayoralty. Carole Smitherman, who was the president of the City Council, immediately became the mayor of the city, Alabama’s largest. Read full story here

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