GUILTY PLEA ENTERED IN GSCC JOB SCAM
Marc Summers
05-09-2008
The son of the former head of the Alabama Fire College pleaded guilty to Conspiracy and Mail Fraud on Thursday in connection with a bogus contract that his father arranged with Gadsden State Community College.
Prosecutors at the hearing to accept William Langston Jr.`s guilty plea, stated that he also received payments from Jefferson State Community College, for work which he did not perform.
Langston admitted to U.S. District Court Judge U.W. Clemon, that he had received the Gadsden State payments from 2002 to 2004.
He agreed in April to plead guilty to the charges, and re-pay $66,000 that he received from the bogus Gadsden State contract. A sentencing date has not been set.
Langston reportedly received $2,000 a month for a length of one year, from Jefferson State in a contract his father helped to arrange about two years before the Gadsden State contracts were set up.
Langston Sr. is currently awaiting trial on a 37 count criminal indictment. He is accused of bilking the state out of $1.5 million through fraudulent contracts, jobs for friends and money spent on himself and his family dating back to 1998. He has pleaded innocent.
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