BREAKING: Rotten to the Core Part Deux: Cottonmouth is reporting AG hopeful Steve Simpson went easy on accused murderer Jeremy Manieri in a child molestation case.

Folks as the criminal history of the accused murderer of Father Ed Everitt, Jeremy Manieri comes to light people inevitably ask themselves how a two-time felony loser, one of which was for child molestation could be on the streets at age 31. The folks at Cottonmouth have an answer in Mississippi Attorney General Candidate Stephen Simpson who was the Circuit Court Judge to whom the Manieri molestation case was assigned back in 2006.  Ironically these new revelations come almost one year to the day that we introduced Simpson to the Slabbed Nation for letting one of his drinking buddies out of the pokey early. The stuff on Manieri’s second scrape with a felony conviction from Cottonmouth, a democrat blogging asset, is damning. Here is a snippet:

Some interesting notes:

  1. Manieri was a convicted felon when he pled guilty before then-Judge Simpson for “touch(ing) or rub(bing) with his hands and tongue the vagina” of the child in question.
  2. Not only was Manieri a convicted felon at the time he pled, he was also on probation for his prior conviction of credit card fraud.
  3. The plea was an “Alford” or “best interests” plea. That means that Manieri would not admit his guilt, but did admit that if he proceeded to trial, the State had enough evidence to probably lead to a guilty verdict. Continue reading “BREAKING: Rotten to the Core Part Deux: Cottonmouth is reporting AG hopeful Steve Simpson went easy on accused murderer Jeremy Manieri in a child molestation case.”

Slabbed news miscellany: Another politician checks into the drunk tank. The Waveland Citizens Fund is shut down. The Sun Herald takes a crack at Simpsongate.

MDOT Executive Director Larry 'Butch" Brown

It seems as though MDOT Executive Director Butch Brown has a gambling problem to go along with his drinking problem folks. Michael Newsom and Geoff Pender have the story for the Sun Herald.  

Brown, 67, was arrested early Friday morning at Beau Rivage casino. According to Biloxi Municipal Court, a Beau Rivage representative asked the court Monday to drop the disorderly conduct charge. A court date of Sept. 13 has been set for the drunkenness charge.  

Biloxi police records say Brown was “intoxicated and unconscious” at a slot machine at 5:43 a.m. on Friday. Casino security woke Brown and “he became extremely belligerent and caused a big disturbance within the casino in view of numerous other people,” police records say, and that he “repeatedly refused to cooperate with officers on the scene.”  

Mississippi is the only state that elects its transportation commissioners and I could spend several posts detailing the systemic corruption and lack of oversight at MDOT but the Sun Herald has already done a great job of doing that. Suffice it to say former Natchez mayor Butch Brown is just the type of stuffed shirt drunk for the job of running MDOT day to day. The shame is I could never connect his son’s bond work to TheRiot and Coastal Securities but it isn’t because of a lack of effort here at Slabbed.  😉 Continue reading “Slabbed news miscellany: Another politician checks into the drunk tank. The Waveland Citizens Fund is shut down. The Sun Herald takes a crack at Simpsongate.”

Meet the man who is running against Jim Hood for Mississippi Attorney General

Mississippi Public Safety Commish Stephen "Homie" Simpson

Stephen Simpson is the name. Bailing out wife beaters early is his game. Jerry Mitchell tells the story for the Clarion Ledger: (Hat Tweet Chris Vignes, Hat Tip Matt Eichelberger

Harrison County’s sheriff released a Gulfport businessman arrested for domestic abuse into the custody of Public Safety Commissioner Stephen Simpson despite a judge’s order to keep the man behind bars for a cooling off period….. 

Sheriff Melvin Brisolara responded, “I think this is something political, and I don’t like the smell of it.” 

We don’t like the smell of this either Mel. While we’re talking about smelling and the ol’ snozola, I think your nose grew several inches while you were lying to Jerry Mitchell as we continue: Continue reading “Meet the man who is running against Jim Hood for Mississippi Attorney General”