Get Caught Up: Investigation into DA Don Landry’s office in final stretch
Another vendor is expected to plead guilty next week, just as feds notify hundreds of individuals their calls were intercepted in wiretaps.
Another vendor is expected to plead guilty next week, just as feds notify hundreds of individuals their calls were intercepted in wiretaps.
A chief justice, now retired, wanted a comprehensive analysis of district attorneys’ diversion programs. Her wish was not fulfilled.
Don Landry expanded enrollment in a program called too restrictive under his predecessor, while contracting with an exclusive set of vendors.
A new bribery scandal in the DA’s office appears to link directly to Don Landry’s decision to return Gary Haynes to the office.
A decade after a bribery scandal roiled the district attorney’s office, federal prosecutors began laying out a similar but more sophisticated kickback scheme.
Reporters now face more barriers to access public records, on top of new fees the Guillory administration rolled out targeting the press. While a legal challenge and council action crawl forward, the barriers stand. And other public officials are following similar playbooks.
Since his election, the mayor-president has taught classes at UL, formed two LLCs and obtained a license to produce title insurance, on top of processing expungements for clients — all in search of supplementing his income.
Don Landry has demurred as a potential public corruption scandal brews, even as he placed on leave a prosecutor linked to the investigation.
The committee charged with finding Gregg Gothreaux’s replacement repeatedly broke the state’s Open Meetings Law, leaving the public in the dark about the entire process.
The gist: The president matched his margin in 2016 and the rest of the ballot followed from there. Some races will go to a runoff.
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