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Author Archives: Michelle Foster

New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Stage Automobile Accidents

MediaBy Michelle FosterMay 29, 2020

May 29, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced MARIO SOLOMON (“SOLOMON”), age 48, of New Orleans, entered a plea of guilty on May 28, 2020 to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers…

Louisiana judge accused of inappropriate behavior with juveniles still getting paid

MediaBy Michelle FosterMay 27, 2020

By Aubrey Killion | WDSU | May 27, 2020 ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. —The coronavirus has crippled courts across southeast Louisiana. One is in St. John the Baptist Parish, where a judge there was suspended after being accused of inappropriately touching juveniles. Records WDSU Investigates has obtained show he’s been getting paid not…

Judges’ financial disclosure now easily available to the public

MediaBy Michelle FosterMay 26, 2020

By Staff | KPLC | May 26, 2020 LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – For years the public has been able to access financial disclosures of elected officials through the State Ethics Board, except for judges. But after being nudged by a watchdog group, the State Supreme Court is making such information more easily available to…

Our Views: One small step forward on accountability for judges

MediaBy Michelle FosterMay 21, 2020

Staff Editorial | Nola.com | May 21, 2020 How embarrassing was it for Louisiana’s secretive Supreme Court when the Metropolitan Crime Commission of New Orleans put the judges’ financial disclosure forms online? The Legislature’s disclosures are online, and so are the governor’s. But the justices were making members of the public file a records request…

Coronavirus cases spike at New Orleans jail, raising advocates’ fears about new outbreak

MediaBy Michelle FosterMay 20, 2020

By Matt Sledge | Nola.com | May 20, 2020 After nearly two weeks of decline, the number of inmates at the New Orleans jail testing positive for the novel coronavirus spiked to its highest point yet on Wednesday, raising concerns that the virus is infecting inmates who once appeared safe. There were 94 inmates in Orleans Parish…

Louisiana Supreme Court publishes judges’ financial disclosures online for first time

MediaBy Michelle FosterMay 15, 2020

By John Simerman | Nola.com | May 15, 2020 The Louisiana Supreme Court began posting the current financial disclosures of state judges on its newly revamped web site this week, the latest step to quell rising public pressure for more transparency within the state’s elected judiciary. The move by the state’s highest court to post…

New Orleans DA furloughs 56 employees due to coronavirus-related revenue drop

MediaBy Michelle FosterMay 8, 2020

By Matt Sledge | Nola.com | May 8, 2020 Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro announced on Friday that he was furloughing 56 employees, including investigators and victim counselors, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit home for a criminal justice agency that weathered past downturns without cuts. The full-time furloughs, which affect…

Former mayor Ray Nagin released from prison, capping infamous New Orleans corruption scandal

MediaBy Michelle FosterApril 28, 2020

By David Hammer and Gordon Russell | WWLTV and Nola.com | April 28, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — Ray Nagin’s abrupt release from prison Monday amid the coronavirus pandemic brought down the final curtain on the biggest City Hall corruption scandal in New Orleans’ colorful history to wind up in a courtroom. The former mayor was…

As death count grows, Louisiana prisons and jails grapple with coronavirus spread

MediaBy Michelle FosterApril 26, 2020

By Matt Sledge and Lea Skene | Nola.com | April 25, 2020 A federal judge made his dismay plain this week after he surveyed the conditions inside a state prison in Washington Parish with at least 29 confirmed coronavirus cases. Nearly 80 prisoners were sleeping in bunks an arm’s length apart in the Rayburn Correctional…

Since coronavirus shut New Orleans down, serious crime stats have dropped. Will trend continue?

MediaBy Michelle FosterApril 11, 2020

By Matt Sledge and Jeff Adelson l Nola.com I April 11, 2020 New Orleans residents are calling 911 a hundred fewer times each day since the city shut down to halt the novel coronavirus, with crime reports falling in major categories like homicides, robberies, carjackings, auto burglaries and thefts. Serious crime stats have dropped in…

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