Strange Bedfellows: Anti-Gay Alabama Mayor And Falcon Model Connected In Corruption Scandal

According to the Daily Voice, the anti-gay mayor of Birmingham, Alabama Larry P. Langford was arrested Monday and charged with 101 counts of bribery and corruption (including accepting bling for public favors). Well, apparently one of those corruption charges has entangled Falcon model Ryan Idol. Wikipedia has the specifics:

Idol was mentioned, under his real name, in court documents related to a lawsuit filed by HealthSouth in connection with allegations of misuse of funds donated to Birmingham, Alabama mayor Larry Langford’s Computer Help for Kids charity. The papers show $30,000 being paid to Idol, with $5,000 coming from the charity and $25,000 from the Council of Cooperating Governments. Charity director John Katopodis testified in a deposition that Idol was paid to repair computers and also to set up computer giveaway programs in other areas. Idol testified that, because of his 1998 fall, he was “not at [his] full faculties” and could not recall the details of his time with the organization.

What?!! A children’s computer charity?!?! Phooey… we though there was gonna be some hot porn-star-on-closeted-mayor-action. Oh well… maybe Idol has better taste. You may recall Langford from two separate QC World Headlines. First he forbade gay pride parade banners to be hung in public and then asked that the resulting discrimination lawsuit against him be thrown out. Stealing from children, discriminating against gays, and accepting jewelry from crooked businessmen—what a guy!