VictoryLand manipulated bingo machines to allow {mayor} Larry Langford to win, says lawsuit

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By From The Birmingham News
September 30, 2009, 6:05AM
(By Michael Tomberlin, The Birmingham News)

BIRMINGHAM -- A Tuskegee woman is suing Milton McGregor's VictoryLand electronic bingo operation, claiming that employees there escorted Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford to specific machines last month when he won more than $50,000.

Sandra Howard's lawsuit in Macon County Circuit Court alleges that Langford won the money Aug. 28. That's 11 days after a federal magistrate in Birmingham ruled that Langford was unable to pay his attorneys in a federal bribery case, ordering the government to cover his legal bills.

The lawsuit names Macon County Greyhound Park Inc. and its operating names of VictoryLand and Quincy's 777 as defendants. Langford is not listed by name as a defendant, though most of the allegations revolve around him.

The suit echoes claims in a 2007 suit filed by Cynthia Teel against VictoryLand. In that case, an Oct. 23, 2008, affidavit from a VictoryLand employee says officials at the Shorter facility manipulated a machine to guarantee payouts to certain people, including Langford, between 2006 and 2008.

At the time, Langford called the Teel action "the most ridiculous lawsuit I have ever seen."
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And by an interesting coincidence ...

Council members propose changes to bingo ordinance
By Associated Press
11:06 AM CDT, September 27, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — City council members are proposing more than a dozen changes to the city's ordinance that restricts and regulates electronic bingo.

Suggestions at Saturday's two-hour work session included increasing the minimum number of electronic bingo machines allowed in a bingo hall from 500 to 1,000, requiring a detailed security plan, prohibiting bingo halls from locating in shopping centers and restricting the halls to one per council district.

http://www.whnt.com/news/sns-ap-al--bingoordinance,0,1129174.story

[Syrinx]

1. McGregor is a scumbag

I don't know anything about his politics. But even if he's a Democrat, he's still a sleazy scumbag.

[Crowman1979]

2. We really need some progressives to take charge of the party and get rid of the blue dog...

...good ole' boy network. Putting more emphasis on eliminating the sales tax on food and replacing our states antiquated constitution would help also.