Eyes Roll at Lawsuit Details
When you wonder just how the news out of Birmingham will get any weirder, this week comes the Bob Beamon of stories that shatters the current standard. It involves a civil lawsuit and federal scrutiny of “$1 million in taxpayer money” related to “a charity Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford created more than seven years ago to give every child a computer.”
And while this part is interesting…
The civil lawsuit filed by HealthSouth Corp., which donated money and computers, questions why the first computer charity gave Langford money, paid for casino trips and handed out donated computers to friends and politicians.
…it’s the payment to the adult film star to “repair computers” that gets people’s attention.
The Birmingham News has an update today.
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So in the end students enrolled in Birmingham City Schools aren’t going to get Lap Top Computers. I hope this makes the “adults” happy. By the way, have they replaced the Birmingham City Schools Superientendent yet?
Comment by bhmhomeboy — February 21, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
I don’t think anyone thought that the students enrolled in Birmingham Sity Schools would EVER get Lap Top Computers. That was the problem.
Comment by Susan Fillippeli — February 21, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
The Children never WILL get the Laptops at the rate, or is that the plan?
Comment by bhmhomeboy — February 21, 2008 @ 9:33 pm