The Nation - News from June 1, 1989
Birmingham, Ala., Mayor Richard Arrington asked that a special state prosecutor be appointed to determine whether federal agents illegally tried to frame him and other black Birmingham officials. The mayor says a developer, Robert Moussalem, told him FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents were trying to entrap Arrington in a phony land deal. Moussalem, who has been charged with bribery, says agents were after Arrington and other black officials from Alabama’s largest city, including City Council President William Bell, Councilman Jeff Germany and state Rep. John Rogers.
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