Jeff Landry continues his war on corruption in the state. His new policy will eliminate conflicts of interest where lawyers in his office are concerned.
Her boss, disgraced ex-city manager Robert Rizzo, pleaded no contest to charges yesterday and has agreed to testify against other defendants in the case.
The charges announced Friday come from a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Aaron Broussard, who rode a populist wave to power as president of Jefferson Parish, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal corruption charges.
The pleas to conspiracy and theft charges resolve a case in which prosecutors charged Broussard abused his power as president of the New Orleans suburb...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An attorney for former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard says Broussard will plead guilty Tuesday to two charges in a corruption case.
Broussard, 62, was parish president from 2004 to 2010.
A 27-count indictment charged him and former parish attorney Tom Wilkinson with conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud and theft...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. District Judge Hayden Head Jr. has postponed Aaron Broussard's trial until Nov. 5, giving the former Jefferson Parish president an extra month to prepare his defense against corruption charges. Trial had been scheduled Oct...
The verdict came on one count of six and it was "not guilty." The rest of the counts the jury could not reach a verdict on and a judge has declared a mistrial.
The former Presidential candidate declared that he was glad and that he had done some things that were very wrong.
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Former Baton Rouge police Cpl. Donald Bailey has been sentenced to three years in prison after entering a no contest plea in May to bribery and corrupt influencing charges.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former Louisiana lawmaker whose corruption trial ended with a deadlocked jury is asking a federal judge to acquit her of a charge she conspired to pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grant money earmarked for charitable and educational programs.