Waste firm figures large in prosecution's list of evidence for Siegelman case
Source: By EDDIE CURRAN, Press Register (AL), Thursday, April 20, 2006
On July 15, 1999, the state Department of Revenue sent a lawyer for Chemical Waste Management Inc. a letter saying the state had agreed to slash the tax rate charged at the massive hazardous waste landfill in Emelle. The very same day, according to federal court documents, then-Gov. Don Siegelman sent a letter to Clayton "Lanny" Young, who has admitted bribing state officials and being paid $500,000 by the waste firm to make the previously denied tax change a reality. Just what the Siegelman-to-Young letter says is not reflected in the record of the case against Siegelman and three other high-profile figures that's set to go to trial May 1.