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  • Ark. treasurer accused of taking cash from broker

    May 20, 2013 12:57 PM

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas' state treasurer is being accused of repeatedly taking cash payments, sometimes in a pie box, from a broker who saw his share of business with the state increase in recent years. Martha Shoffner made her initial court appearance Monday and was released on her own... more »
  • Arraignment delayed for ex-New Orleans mayor Nagin

    January 23, 2013 3:56 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - A judge has postponed the arraignment of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who is charged with taking contractors' bribes in exchange for helping them secure lucrative work for the city. Nagin, who gained national prominence leading battered New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was scheduled... more »
  • Businessman pleads guilty in bribery scheme

    December 5, 2012 12:26 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - A businessman charged with plotting to bribe an unidentified former New Orleans public official has pleaded guilty. Rodney Williams entered the plea Wednesday to bribery conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court. Court papers don't name the city official, but his tenure matches former Mayor Ray Nagin's term... more »
  • High court rejects appeal of ex-La. congressman

    November 26, 2012 9:55 AM

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is leaving in place the corruption conviction of a former Louisiana congressman who hid money from bribes in his freezer. The justices on Monday rejected without comment an appeal by former Rep. William Jefferson, who is serving a 13-year term in federal prison. ... more »
  • Ex-La. official's sentencing moved to October

    January 4, 2012 4:30 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge has agreed to postpone the sentencing of a former Louisiana wildlife official who pleaded guilty to taking payoffs from a landfill company owner's businesses for his work in trying to keep rival landfills closed. Former Wildlife and Fisheries Commissioner Henry Mouton was scheduled to... more »
  • Former BRPD corporal sentenced to 3 years in prison

    September 27, 2011 11:36 AM

    BATON ROUGE - A former Baton Rouge police officer has been sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday after he pleaded "no contest" to charges he took money from a local drug dealer. Former BRPD Corporal Donald Bailey, 51, entered a "no contest" plea in May to felony public... more »
  • Restaurant owner pleads guilty to tax fraud, bribery

    April 1, 2011 3:15 PM

    BATON ROUGE - The owner of several Baton Rouge-area restaurants has pleaded guilty to cooking his books and keeping hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales taxes, according to the U. S. Attorney's Office. Jamal Roman entered a guilty plea in district court today to all charges against him... more »
  • BR businessman pleads guilty in corruption case

    February 18, 2011 5:28 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - A Baton Rouge man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a former New Orleans city official in a kickback scheme involving contracts for the city's crime surveillance program. Prosecutors say 51-year-old Dwaine Hodges helped a businessman, Mark St. Pierre, funnel payoffs to Anthony Jones, who... more »
  • Don't Mess with the Tax Man

    February 4, 2011 7:40 PM

    A woman in Mississippi admits she tried to bribe an IRS employee in an attempt to lower her federal taxes. Sixty-three year old Rene Coleman of Jackson tried to pay the employee $2,000 cash to reduce how much she owed after she was audited. The IRS worker told her supervisor... more »
  • Man sentenced on bribery charge

    November 19, 2010 5:39 AM

    NEW ORLEANS - A Destrehan engineer has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and fined $20,000 after pleading guilty to bribing a former St. John the Baptist Parish president. Ray A. Davezac admitted paying a $5,000 bribe to former parish President William Hubbard. He admitted owning and operating... more »
  • BR official accused of taking bribes put on leave

    October 8, 2010 11:44 AM

    The East Baton Rouge Parish official accused of receiving gifts in exchange for rewarding a no-bid contract for crime cameras has been put on administrative leave. Mayor-President Kip Holden's office put out a press release saying he had accepted the retirement of Don Evans, the city-parish Director of Information... more »
  • Evelyn Holden to remain in federal custody

    January 13, 2010 10:39 AM

    UPDATE: The sister of Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden will remain in federal custody after investigators say she violated the terms of her release. U.S. Marshals arrested Evelyn Holden Tuesday. Last November, she pleaded guilty to a federal bribery probe surrounding Baton Rouge City Court. She was released on her... more »
  • Parish president resigns after being charged in bribery case

    September 24, 2009 10:40 AM

    The president of St. John the Baptist Parish resigned Thursday after he was charged in a federal bribery case. William J. Hubbard is accused of soliciting checks totalling $20,000 from three vendors who had contracts with the parish. The money was apparently was to be used for Hubbard to... more »
  • Jefferson Convicted

    August 6, 2009 8:34 AM

    Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson will face 150 years in prison after he was convicted on eleven of sixteen bribery charges. Jurors saw surveillance video showing him accepting a briefcase full of bribe money. Jefferson accepted more than $400,000 in bribes to broker business deals in Africa. He will be... more »

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