it only added to chicago lohr when word leaked out that some alderman were caught here on tape.vis marian humes perry hutchinson and cliff kelley. see this man? his name as raymond acres junior at the time he was a lobbyist. he was caught to not realizing it was the fed's he was dealing with. he is there is the fbi mole. once he saw the fbi videotapes acres agreed to cooperate. he admitted funneling money through weak management on super bowl trips. for car repairs for cliff kelley. he paid him a $6,500 bribe to help and a waste manager in a land deal. he pocketed 12,900. akers was sentenced to work-release. back then working for waste management acres tooled around on a car with license plate landfill allenby fl. today he drives a county car. 10 years ago town hired him. now he is cook county's solid waste coordinator. he earns $81,000 per year. it is not illegal but get this place. akers a man convicted of bribing city officials back then on behalf of waste management is not a traffic cop on with that very company is qualified to bid on county work. we tried repeatedly to talk

. >> reporter: how powerful is the symbol of the log cabin in american lohr?log cabin candidate. a man of the people except that, well, he wasn't born in a log cabin. he was born here. seven presidents including the rail-splitting abraham lincoln were born in log cabins. you still see them today. some rustic. some grand. a smattering of them republicans. but most log cabins today are built by five-year-olds. where are the americans with the grit of our pioneer forebearers? a few can be found paddling down the connecticut river. students from dartmouth college in nearby hanover new hampshire. since last summer, they've been building a log cabin to replace one that burned down after 57 years. >> this is our cabin. >> reporter: greg is team leader. >> i mean they really look like lincoln logs. they fit together so perfectly. >> reporter: it may look like these logs are simply stacked on top of each other. they're not. >> all of the logs are carved with chainsaws to fit at the notches in the corners and along the entire length of the logs as well. >> reporter: wit

he attended the virginia military institute and he earned a back lohr yacht of science and computer science and received his rotc commission in the united states air force as a second lieutenant. on the 18th of may, 2001. it was in that year that he deployed for the first time in support of operation enduring freedom. then in 2006 he deployed again in turkey in support of operations enduring freedom, iraqi freedom and fundamental justice. and in 2009 he deployed to baghdad, iraq, in support of operation iraqi freedom. finally in 2011 he deployed for the last time, to afghanistan, in operation enduring freedom. he survived by his mother and father, sergeant retired william and mary sue ransom and his brother, chief petty officer steven randolph. from those that talked about major ransom, they talked about with what a tremendously important figure he was in our operations in afghanistan. but his story and his background are not uncommon in two ways. first, major ransom comes from a military family, both his brother and his father have served and are retired from the armed services. . that's h