Former Councilman Haddox's real crime wasn't trading prescription drugs for sex. It was beating the rap in 1974 and driving Al Gore out of journalism into politics and eventually into the climate change biz!
In 1974, according to the New York Times, Former Vice President Al Gore, then a Tennessean reporter, along with the paper's publisher, John Seigenthaler, cooperated with the district attorney in the operation that appeared to catch then-Councilman Haddox in the act of taking a $300 bribe from a local developer wearing a wire.
After two trials, Haddox was ultimately aquitted of all charges in the incident. Haddox's lawyer was able to convince a multiracial jury that Haddox had been entrapped by the newspaper.
Colleagues at the time said that Gore was devasted by the verdict and two years later left journalism.
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