Kyle Whitmire: JeffCo’s Receiver Updates

| September 4, 2013 

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Kyle Whitmire with Al.com and the Birmingham News gives us a quick update on the receiver appointment for Jefferson County. He also has the details on where Alabama falls in the list of most corrupt states in America.

 

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