Friday Jefferson Parish Omnibus: Mark Titus, Aaron Broussard and the 24th JDC
I do not have much time this morning so here is a quick rundown of three stories I followed over the past week or so:
Mark Titus’ wife claims most of the assets government plans to seize ~ Manuel Torres
Run “Mark Titus” through the search box on the right sidebar to find Slabbed’s previous coverage of USA v Titus. Manuel posted a comprehensive update to the forfeiture portion of the prosecution and Mrs Titus has changed lawyers and is fighting for her share of the property subject to Judge Lemelle’s forfeiture order. I recall getting a bat signal from Team Titus before Christmas that went something along the lines that NOLA commenter JPChirper was an idiot. I’ll continue to keep an eye on this case.
Aaron Broussard’s prosecutors dismiss his attack as ‘fishing expedition’ ~ Drew Broach
I’ve gotten some reader email on this story. It is a complicated critter as Judge Head just may hold an evidentiary hearing to DQ the local US Attorney’s office from his case due to press leaks and Sal Perricone / Jan Mann playing on the internet. I’d be dishonest if I did not say this latest turn of events has continued to fuel speculation that Slabbed will be subpoenaed by John Horn’s folks at DoJ but I have no indication such is forthcoming. If something does happen you guys know the drill by now.
Finally Paul Purpura checked in with the social promotion revolving door that exists between the 24th JDC and the Louisiana 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The bottom line is despite several openings on both courts there is only one opposed seat up for grabs as all the other judges get a freebie pass to their new jobs.
As an aside, this nugget from the latest release from the LA AG’s office:
#12-0150
Jefferson Parish may not donate surplus computer equipment to a private company for
recycling and refurbishing. The surplus computer equipment may be sold at a public
auction conducted pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 49:125, through an Internet computer
auction pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 33:4711.1, or at a public sale under La. Rev. Stat.
33.4712(F) if the property to be sold is appraised at less than $5,000. (Vallan)
Op to Ms. Deborah Cunningham Foshee, Parish Attorney, Jefferson Parish
Government, Jefferson, LA
Date Released: December 21, 2012
This wouldn’t be two laptops they are trying to “donate” to a “landfill” would it?
vonzippa
January 4, 2013 at 12:48 pm
What is even more pathetic for an attorney allegedly advising a public body is to even need a worthless AG opinion when the law is (ahem) very clear.
The Empire Parish
January 7, 2013 at 8:20 am
Reverse engineering the River Birch proxy defense.
Much can be gleaned by the DOJ from the use of pawns by the River Birch defense network. First, the constant background noise from Canada trying to discredit Slabbed and recast its coverage of events as being prone to conspiracy theories prone…when in fact Broussard pled guilty to committing conspiracy. So this begs the question Are their more conspiracies being committed in Jeff Parish? Find out who is behind the attack on slabbed and the nature of the attack on Slabbed might tell you what they believe is their own weakness. Ie using proxies to discredit another is revealing of the person who engages in such tactics. Clearly conspiracy is one of the self perceived problems of the group of people attacking slabbed holds. Read their filing and all will be revealed. You just nave to reverse engineer it and take how they want to cast slabbed as a road map to their own weakness. Reverse engineer it DOJ and use it as your road map. Hope this helps the DOJ.
Steve
January 4, 2013 at 8:33 pm
The FBI investigation of JP corruption is ongoing and not at an end. I have this on good authority from a friend of mine named Touhy.
Carpe Diem
January 4, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Good. Because if Slabbed was a conspiracy site it would have already made the conspiracy theory that an attorney turned African-American President and an African American Attoreny General as surely familiar with Martin Luther King conspiracy theory involving the former owner of the Jefferson Parish landfill business ie Carlos Marcello. Seems the waste management biz in New Orleans has been targeted by the lated Dr. Martin Luther Kings family as being a possible source of his murder. The fact King was helping a group of waste management employees organize to strike for higher wages makes the theory rich. If I were in the waste management biz in New Orleans I might develop my own conspiracy theory that payback is multigenerational hell. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
DOJ website link
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part6.php
King Center link
http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers
VII. KING V. JOWERS CONSPIRACY ALLEGATIONS
A. The King v. Jowers Trial
VII. KING V. JOWERS CONSPIRACY ALLEGATIONS
A. The King v. Jowers Trial
From The King Center website concerning the lawsuit filed by the late Dr Kings widow—
“As we move into the next area, we’re concerned now about a broader conspiracy, a broader conspiracy. That is two-pronged, ladies and gentlemen. On the one hand, the broader conspiracy goes beyond a shooter in the bushes who gets away with killing Martin King. It goes from him to a Mr. Jowers, who is involved in facilitating, and it goes back to Mr. Liberto, whom you’ve heard was clearly a part of it, but it goes beyond Mr. Liberto in terms of the Mob side, because you’ve heard from witness Nathan Whitlock how he used to push a fruit cart in New Orleans with Mr. Carlos Marcello and that he then has this relationship and this awareness of Marcello and Marcello activities. Carlos Marcello has been the Mob kingpin, was the Mob leader in this part of the country, for a long, long time.
So any contract, any Mob contract, on Martin Luther King’s life, would come from Marcello through Liberto into the local infrastructure that Marcello had here in Memphis. Marcello himself was involved in gun running. Part of the evidence in terms of the military involvement is contained in a lengthy article that we put into evidence that appears in March of 1993 in the Commercial Appeal by Steve Tomkins, and that article indicated that there was a high-ranking general who had been charged and imprisoned for aiding and abetting the trading in stolen weapons. That deal meant what he was involved in was the theft of guns from arsenals, armories and camps, like Camp Shelby in Mississippi, the theft of weapons from those places that went to — were trucked to a Marcello property in New Orleans, and from the Marcello property in New Orleans were shipped around the coast into Houston, Texas, where they were taken off. And that is where Raoul and his crowd came into the receipt of those weapons before they went into Latin and South America.
So that’s one prong of the broader conspiracy, the Mob. But, you see, already there is a relationship between organized crime and the military in the receipt of those weapons and in the ongoing sale of them.”"”
Steve
January 4, 2013 at 9:16 pm