By Matt Sledge | NOLA.com | November 10, 2021 For years as a member of the New Orleans City Council, Jason Williams fought against budget increases requested by former District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, while questioning his leadership and financial stewardship. Ten months after Williams became district attorney, the tables were turned as he asked the…
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that IRVIN MAYFIELD, age 44, a resident of New Orleans, and RONALD MARKHAM, age 43, also a resident of New Orleans, were sentenced today for defrauding the New Orleans Public Library Foundation out of approximately $1,316,232. The Honorable Jay Zainey sentenced the…
By Garey Forster | The Advocate | November 3, 2021 The Census Bureau says 391,000 people live in New Orleans. Louisiana’s secretary of state says Orleans Parish has 266,856 registered voters. Yet only 51,342 picked LaToya Cantrell to be mayor, and merely 41,564 elected Jason Williams as district attorney. Those were two different election cycles.…
By Ken Daley | WVUE | November 3, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Grammy-winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his business partner Ronald Markham each was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Wednesday (Nov. 3), nearly a year after they pleaded guilty to a scheme that defrauded the New Orleans Public Library…
By David Hammer | WWL-TV | November 3, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS — Grammy-winning New Orleans trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his business partner Ronald Markham were each sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Wednesday, a year after admitting that they diverted over $1.3 million in New Orleans Public Library donations to their…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | November 3, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Violent crime continues to plague New Orleans. Carjackings are up more than 151% since 2019 across the city. Last year, there were 84 carjacking cases. This year, police investigated more than 211. More than 400 people have been shot…
By Jim Mustian and Jake Bleiberg | Associated Press | November 2, 2021 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A reexamined autopsy ordered by the FBI in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene has rejected the Louisiana State Police claim that a car crash caused his fatal injuries, narrowing prosecutors’ focus on the troopers seen on…
By Nicholas Chrastil | The Lens | October 29, 2021 As a city councilmember in 2017, Jason Williams was one of the most outspoken critics of then-District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s treatment of victims and witnesses who were reluctant to testify. That year, The Lens revealed that Cannizzarro’s prosecutors were using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesses to talk…
By Marlisa Harding | American Press | October 28, 2021 A report released on Wednesday by the Metropolitan Crime Commission outlined the state of Calcasieu Parish’s criminal justice system. The report looked at over 9,000 cases that went through the 14th Judicial Court over 2015, 2016 and 2017 and identified the system’s strengths and weaknesses.…
By Theresa Schmidt | KPLC | October 28, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) – How efficiently do law enforcement, prosecutors and judges work together in the judicial system? President of the Metropolitan Crime Commission Rafael Goyeneche says there are positives. “You don’t hold people accountable if you stop at probable cause,” Goyeneche said. “You…