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Looks like folks at Adams and Reese are getting ready as there were three pro hac vice motions filed on their behalf by Williams and Connolly attorneys – the “Green Berets of high-stakes litigation,” according to the Legal Times. Joining Bailey Smith and Stephen Kupperman of the NOLA firm Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman And Sarver … Continue reading “Adams and Reese "lawyering up" for Perdigao”
Thanks to a reader we have a Perdigao v Adams and Reese update. Here is Jamie Perdigao’s detailed response to the Adams and Reese motion to dismiss. I found this quote and hope some of our lawyer readers can help me gain clarity on this passage found on page 5 of the document. A motion to dismiss an action for … Continue reading “In Flagrante Delicto: Kinky Things Happening in Perdigao v Adams and Reese”
On information and belief, the firm was given a free pass in exchange for implicitly agreeing that it would walk away from a claim on plaintiffs seized assets, allowing the government to claim a large forfeiture. Paragraph 153 Peridago v Adams and Reese (civil RICO) Well, on that information and total disbelief that anyone would … Continue reading “Hey, Sop, are you suggesting the $30 million wasn’t chump change to Adams and Reese but part of another deal?”
I was actually tickled that a commenter mentioned former Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale yesterday on my profile of Lafayette Insurance Company as it loosely fits with other information that has come to light in the unfolding Jefferson Parish corruption scandal. The intersection of course is the lobbying arm of law firm Adams and Reese which has a … Continue reading “Slabbed goes behind the ‘green door’ and takes a peek at the Jefferson Parish corruption hive: Adams & Reese welcome back to Slabbed”
If you find yourself lost as we wander from NOLA way up to the land of Faulker, worry not – this is not about changing the facts to fit the picture, it’s more of a sight-seeing trip to see if the facts fit the frame. Among the comments made to the Perdiago update Sop posted … Continue reading “Grab your hiking boots – time to wander from Perdigao v Adams & Reese to USA v Scruggs”
First, a bite of Girl Scout cookie news – Dispute about Thin Mints gets physical from the newly redesigned Clarion Ledger website: Police say a brawl between roommates over Girl Scout cookies led to assault charges against one of them. According to the Naples Daily News, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office reports that 31-year-old Hersha … Continue reading “Several bites of news – Girl Scouts cookies, Adams & Reese, Baldwin v Costner”
Folks, if there has been one piece of information disclosed to us that has survived the test of time to this point, it is that multiple Jefferson Parish politicians have personal stakes in seeing River Birch succeed. This factoid was disclosed to Nowdy and I very early on in this unfolding saga and was reinforced by the John … Continue reading “Telemachus lends context to the now infamous Dutchie Connick memo and enables Slabbed to roll out Ron Maestri. Part 1, important background information.”
FOX 8 confirmed that former CAO Tim Whitmer has a new attorney. Whitmer replaced former district attorney candidate, Ralph Capitelli with well known criminal attorney Pat Fanning. Whitmer’s insurance business is what started the federal investigation into Jefferson Parish government. The big story on Fox 8 was Jefferson Parish probe widens to school board and … Continue reading “Tim Whitmer has a new attorney – oh, by the way, a JP School Board member testified before federal grand jury”
Folks the political class in Jefferson Parish takes the word “brazen” to another level. Our long time readers know that I am a fan of the old TLC series Connections so let’s make a few and begin with the agenda for tomorrow’s Parish Council meeting which I’ve embedded courtesy of Scribd: [scribd id=27747128 key=key-299lbj8xijdr2olyhcl8 mode=list] I … Continue reading “Let’s tie a few Jefferson Parish odds and ends together as Slabbed welcomes Chris Roberts and Dutchie Connick to the party”
People are plain mad at the political class these days, after all who isn’t mad after being snookered by self-serving double-dealing politicians such as Chris Dodd, Max Baucus, David Vitter or Dick Shelby all of whom recommend people for important government positions such as US Attorney. With the election of Barack Obama in 2008 we found out here … Continue reading “That Eau de Landfill smell gives me the Heebe-Jeebies: Slabbed looks back at Baby Bushie as we tie a few things together.”