Birmingham, AL – Investment banker Bill Blount and former lobbyist Al LaPierre have started serving prison sentences for their roles in the bribery of former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford.
A spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons says that Blount reported to a prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, while LaPierre arrived at a similar facility Pensacola, Fla. prison camp.
A federal judge had set a Thursday deadline for both men to arrive at prison.
Their guilty pleas followed a scheme in which Langford, as president of the Jefferson County Commission, was paid $235,000 in bribes for steering county bond business to Blount's firm.
Blount was sentenced to 52 months in prison, while LaPierre was sentenced to 48 months.
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