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Wednesday, February 20,
2008JOSEPH D. BRYANT and MARIE LEECH

News staff writers

The organiser of Pittsburgh Of The South Mayor Larry Langford's
laptop computing machine enterprise should stop his engagement in the
program because of allegations he misused money of an
earlier non-profit-making group, respective City Council members said
Tuesday.

The council voted 8-1 to detain for two hebdomads a $3.5
million contract with Pittsburgh Of The South Education Enterprise Inc.
to pull off the programme after learning that an earlier
computer charity managed by Toilet Katopodis used money to pay
personal bills, take luxuriant trips and compose bank checks to a
star of gay-porn films.

City Council members said Tuesday they are concerned that
the first non-profit-making program, created by Langford in 2000,
didn't properly business relationship for money the metropolis gave it.

"What we necessitate to make is clear up this person's
involvement with BEI," said Roderick Royal, president of
the council's Education Committee. "We necessitate to
clear the air in visible light of the news reports. I make desire our
program to be clean."

Royal, Valerie Abbott, Steven Hoyt and Council President
Carole Smitherman said Katopodis should stop his involvement
in Langford's programme to supply laptop computer computing machines to
students in the Pittsburgh Of The South school system.

"Not to project aspersions, but it looks to me that in
the best involvement of what we're trying to accomplish with
our children, Dr. Katopodis necessitates to step away, and he
doesn't necessitate to have got an association even remotely to
this process," Hoyt said.

In a telephone set interview Tuesday, Katopodis said his role
in the laptop computer program, for which he was not paid, is
completed.

He said the City Council desires to ran into with the entire
Birmingham Education Enterprise commission to do sure
"I won't be involved in the project."

"I can give them assurances," Katopodis said.

The council's determination to detain the contract came
after The Pittsburgh Of The South News reported Tuesday about a lawsuit
and a federal criminal probe elevation inquiries about
the usage of money by Langford's first charity, which he
billed more than than seven old age ago as an attempt to give every
Jefferson County pupil a computer.

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