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Fazzio appeared relaxed as he sat next to his wife while waiting to be arraigned. When one of his attorneys asked Fazzio if he needed a copy of the 13-page indictment, Fazzio joked that he already had a copy mounted in a scrapbook. You folks reckon he already knows the names of the would be jurors? Well … Continue reading “Indictment?? Here at Team Fazzio we wipe our ass with indictments….”
Folks, organized crime operate a myriad of scams the only common denominator being garnering ill-gotten loot at the end. Paul Rioux at the Times Picayune outlines a time-honored scam in the construction industry albeit taken to its most brazen level as Fazzio is alleged in the his indictment to fictitiously billed Garner Services around $1MM with the help of Garner … Continue reading “The Fazzio indictment hits PACER. Looks like the man is in a heap of trouble to me.”
The T-P’s Paul Rioux has the scoop.
How Team Letten could f*ck up the Jefferson Parish investigation defies the imagination as it was literally shooting fish in a barrel with in your face corruption. That said Slabbed has been detailing former Parish Councilman Byron Lee’s double dealing since 2010 so nothing in Hammerman’s report detailing Fred Heebe and Dominick Fazzio stuffing his pocket’s full of illicit campaign … Continue reading “Hammerman…….”
It was Whitmer and Wilkinson, along with Dominick Fazzio that hammered out the parish contract with the River Birch Landfill. Tim Whitmer gets 3 years probation for covering up crimes in Broussard administration ~ Drew Broach Under Broussard, who was largely a hands-off executive, Whitmer ran the 3,100-employee, $500 million administration. He possessed an encyclopedic … Continue reading “And the travesty of justice is complete: Tim Whitmer gets probation”
I’ve been pretty speechless since I heard about this because I have NEVER seen anything like this in 17 years with the federal government. NEVER saw the government let someone off the hook by publicly announcing that they are NOT going to indict him OR publicly stating that they were ending an investigation. Of course, … Continue reading “A couple of thoughts on yesterday’s River Birch bombshell”
A day has elapsed since yesterday’s sentencing hearing for Karen Parker, Tom Wilkinson and Aaron Broussard in Judge Head’s temporary courtroom on Camp Street and the accounting by the media of yesterday’s events is almost complete, “almost” being because I have not chipped in my two cents worth. First up I need to highlight Jason at American … Continue reading “Public outrage on display Part 1: Some thoughts on the Broussard sentencing.”
There are a few of you guys that date back with me all the way to Yahoo Finance that read this including occasional commenters Steve and Russell, who also now runs his own blog plus many more that have been with me here on Slabbed for a bit over 3 years. Post by post and comment by … Continue reading “There is an unmistakable buzz in the air……”
Indeed it is folks as we start with Times Picayune Editor Gordon Russell: Got an email from Sal Perricone. He seems a little hacked off with me. Says I’m in league w/ Fred Heebe, among other things. — Gordon Russell (@GordonRussell1) November 29, 2012 At this point I’d like to say it was not a … Continue reading “Perricone disaster overnight miscellany: The heat is on”
I guess it is time to crank things back up after Thanksgiving. I had the dessert cart this year and kept things kid friendly making Lemon squares, Blonde brownies along with the traditional pumpkin pie. Since Pizza buns were a hit with the kid set last year we tried Stuffed pizza this year and it … Continue reading “Post holiday news miscellany”