In early March a new reader mentioned to me that it was a FBI agent that recommended Slabbed as a resource in the ongoing federal investigation in the cesspool that is known as Jefferson Parish Government. To the extent we tend to gets lots of official traffic (you kids know who you are) I wasn’t necessarily surprised as I was gratified that we are considered worth the read by the good guys. Along those lines I think it was posts such as, It all began with a dime drop to Raphael, where I traced the origins of the current investigation in Jefferson Parish via an interesting racketeering suit filed by a former LaPlace resident Jacqueline Patterson Edwards that got us the notice.
It was also that post which introduced the Slabbed Nation to Ray Davezac, an engineer whose role in what would be the much larger scandal was relatively minor: He helped buy a car for former St John the Baptist Parish President turned felon Bill Hubbard’s paramour in what amounted to a bribe. Today he plead guilty before Judge Barbier for bribing Hubbard Continue reading “A five thousand dollar bribe for Hubbard’s girlfriend on the side: Ray Davezac cops a plea. A Jefferson Parish Political Corruption Update.”