May 25, 2013
Land at the center of Alabama's government corruption probe is now owned by Montgomery County.
Questions surrounding the state's plan to build two warehouses on the 256-acre site just north of downtown prompted a federal and state investigation into government corruption in 2001.
The ongoing investigation has resulted in convictions or guilty pleas by six people involved with the state warehouse project, including a member of former Governor Don Siegelman's Cabinet.
Montgomery County paid nearly $693,000 for the land.
County Administrator Donald Mims said the county plans to use the site to build a minimum-security community corrections facility in the near future, and later on, build a jail on the site.
Mims said the land's location was a major factor in the county's decision to buy it.
