we saw that...

thomas & martha antoon along with several local realtors sued for failure to disclose defects in alexandria, la., garden district home

it's just our opinion -- of coz, but it seems that besides being so old, that a lot of homes in alexandria, la.'s, so called, garden district -- have a lot of problems.

if you're seriously considering buying one, you should also consider bringing in your own experts and inspectors, preferably from out of town and especially when you're dealing with an old patrician family, what, with their network of useful idiots and surrogates and all -- because the odds are that they are working together to benefit each other and not you.

the petition of robert campbell paul concerning a purchase in 2011 of immovable property located at 2420 vance avenue, styled, "suit for reduction in purchase price and damages;" is filed on his behalf by fred a. pharis, esq., of the pharis law offices;

made defendants besides thomas a. antoon and martha gravel antoon include: buelow-miller real estate, inc., janet rand whittle, louisiana lagniappe realty, llc and elaine fuqua setliff;

allotted to judge george c. metoyer, jr., of the ninth judicial district court.

click here to download thirteen page .pdf [340 kb]

louisiana attorney disciplinary board skates controversial shreveport attorney larry english formal charges filed by office of disciplinary counsel

via: shyster watch rss feed

fred rosenfeld on wst... jonathan goins mayoral run post

we were amused thursday morning, 29 march 2012, to hear ksyl talkback 970 pre-show co-host fred rosenfeld's analysis of our 20 march 2012 post: "rumors of mayoral run by former alexandria city councilman jonathan goins are true."

developing: city of alexandria, la., fulfills public records request for von jennings private investigator videos & files

photo: bill warner private investigator crime blog

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state supremes hear arguments in state vs michael garcia capital murder case

link to video watch/download page

we watched the louisiana state supreme court proceedings yesterday (tuesday 15 march 2011) because they were scheduled to hear the case of pineville, la. fireman, stephan jones vs city of pineville, la. we had posted about it nearly a year ago when the third circuit issued an opinion in the case.

yesterday when we checked the docket again it was no longer on there. so we phoned up the supremes clerk of court who told us that it had been settled.

whether the city of pineville caved (they lost at the third circuit) or not we dont know.

it's interesting how the alexandria, la. mayor and city council can look at each other cross-ways and its instantly a "news" story -- yet reports of pineville goings on are completely suppressed and covered up by the "news" media.

anyway, we were pulling for fireman jones and we hope that the case was settled in his favor.

we decided to watch the arguments in the garcia case because in the docket it was noted that it was a capital case.

we werent familar with this case at all. the baton rouge morning advocate has a report from 07 june 2008 here.

in the docket the name of the attorney representing the state was listed as antonio marcell clayton which didnt mean anything to us. it wasnt until he took to the podium that we recognized him as tony clayton.

mr. clayton put forth a very powerful and passionate argument. we would be surprised if the supremes reversed mr. garcia's sentence.

the crimes committed were extremely heinous and the squeamish and faint of heart should skip this video.

fred rosenfeld on 02 october 2010 alexandria, la. mayoral election result

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"what happened is the 'anybody but jacques group,' got their heads handed to them..."

fred rosenfeld: bridgett brown throws von jennings under the bus

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gregory willis et al v cleco corporation

kalb tv 5:00 and 6:00 pm 15 december 2009 reports on the latest bridgett brown + larry english production.
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city of alexandria, la. legal committee votes to continue its investigation of mayor jacques roy

mayor roy to turn his sparc / stimulus measures program over to clifford moeller, gaeda and the silk stocking gang

in what could be considered a bold political move, (but not such a good move for transparency or honesty) city of alexandria, mayor jacques roy, announced at the end of his administrative briefing today, his intent to turn over his $96 million sparc program to clifford moeller and gaeda.

mayor roy also announced that the new name of sparc will be sparc / stimulus measures. this is at least the third name change that it has undergone since it was originally announced.

the silk stocking gang to take over sparc: some gaeda board members: roy o. martin, iii, st. francis cabrini ceo, stephen wright, martin masden and legal counsel greg upton with the notorious gold, weems, bruser, sues and rundell law firm.

back on 23 april 2008 this blog opined:

what the alexandria mayor wants to do is set up this "corporation" under La. R.S. 33:9034. we can just imagine how this "corporation's" board of directors would look.

so if you dont want to see the same old gang of people like roy o. martin, charlie weems, wayne denley, billy barron, martin johnson, buddy tudor and bridgett brown running the "economic engine" of this "region" and them and their cronies reaping all the benefits from it -- then you need to be against the sparc.

mike magnoli: bridgett brown has 'chops'

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other than our not fully understanding what mr. magnoli is on about when he states that ms. brown has "chops;" (must be a connecticut yankee thing.)

this is a far superior report than the gannett/town talk, rt morgan's total gloss over in the 01 february 2009, town talk piece he wrote. see city legal fees in cleco case total about $300,000. or download .pdf [15 kb].

bridgett brown's latest petition offers a glimpse into how organized crime gangs operate in central louisiana

UPDATE: unethical alexandria, la. attorney greg aymond, in full damage control mode, attacked this post from his blog. however, the discerning reader should note, that he did not deny what we wrote either. - at least in the version that we saw.

this is some fine reading. its always interesting and informative when rival crime gangs have a go at it. at least in this instance they are using words instead of bullets.

click here to download 19 page .pdf [73kb]

excerpts:

Sometime in 2005, at the dedication of the police memorial for fallen Police Officers, Chris Roy Sr. approached Kelvin Sanders and stated that the City did not need to hire their own lawyers to represent it in the CLECO controversy that "they" could represent the City and Sanders responded that would be inappropriate "that a first year law student could see through the conflict."

The City then hired Intervenor [bridgett brown] along with Attorney John Sharp, Attorney Craig Davidson and Phillip Hunter in a contingency contract that stated that Intervenor would receive ten (10%) percent; John Sharp ten (10%) percent; Craig Davidson ten (10 %) percent; and Phillip Hunter five (5%) percent, of any over billings recovered.

In the spring and summer of 2006 on three different occasions [jacques] Roy and Chris Roy Sr. who represented [samuel] Sansing contacted Intervenor and tried to pressure her into withdrawing from the case so that EMS [EMS is owned by David Pugh and employed Samuel Sansing who are former employees of CLECO] could increase its percentage of fees and on at least one occasion during the same period Roy and Chris Roy Sr. personally visited Intervenor to pressure her to give up her contract so EMS could increase the amount of its fees in its new contract, and Intervenor refused.

Sometime in 2006 Attorney Michael Johnson who represented David Pugh came to see Intervenor and tried to pressure her into withdrawing from the case so that EMS could increase the amount of its fees in its new contract, and Intervenor refused.

wst... note: this paragraph resonates with us -- we made some posts critical of the city of alexandria renewing its channel 4 and city website management agreement with kja communications group, which is owned by david pugh.

mr. pugh contacted his attorney, michael johnson, who in turn contacted his good friend, unethical alexandria, la. attorney greg aymond, who in turn contacted us, attempting to pressure and intimidate us into retracting our post(s) and then to unequivocally support the kja contract renewal.

we told mr. aymond to go jump in the lake; that we are not interested in being a part of, or working with, the criminal network.

as a result, mr. aymond began to attack us from his blog and stepped up his attacks when it was revealed exclusively from this blog that alexandria, la. mayor jacques roy's brother, state representative chris roy, jr., awarded a tulane legislative scholarship to the daughter of samuel sansing.

it's unknown what, if any, consideration mr. aymond received then or has or is receiving in his attempts to subvert and propagandize the local blogosphere.

Intervenor believes that sometimes in the spring and summer of 2006 Roy, Chris Roy Sr., and Michael Johnson went to Phillip Hunter and pressured him to withdraw from the case in which he did,

As a result of Phillip Hunters withdrawal from the case, the City approved the new EMS contract at twenty (20%) rather than the original fifteen (15%) percent it was scheduled to receive.

Sometimes in October 2006, while Jacques Roy was in involved in a special election for Mayor of Alexandria, Roy, Pugh, Sansing, Attorney Aaron Siebeneicher, Intervenor, John Sharp, and City Attorney Kelvin Sanders, Craig Davidson and David Pugh met to discuss how much money EMS believed that CLECO owed the city and at that meeting Kelvin Sanders again expressed to Roy that if he won the mayor’s race, he would have a conflict and should not participate in the CLECO case.

Sometime in December of 2006 [mayor roy was sworn into office on 04 december 2006] Roy in a meeting in which Sanders was present, indicated that he was setting Notice of Deposition of Board members of CLECO in the CLECO vs. Sam Sansing, et al and Sanders again warned Roy that he should not be participating in either the City Of Alexandria vs. CLECO and CLECO vs. Sam Sansing, et al.

At all times after his election Roy continually acted as the City of Alexandria lead attorney in City of Alexandria vs. CLECO directing all discussions and legal tactics.

Sometime in early March of 2007 Intervenor received a phone call from Tommy Antoon who stated he was calling on behalf to the Mayor and told Intervenor that if she would not fight her removal from the case and “send her resume”, she would receive city legal work. Intervenor declined the offer.

wst... note: this might have been one of the phone calls ms. brown was referring to in her 13 march 2007, address to the city council, when she said "i've gotten calls from several people in the last two weeks, explaining to me that 'dont worry you'll get an hourly wage and you'll get a couple of hundred dollars for the work that you've done.'"

Sometime in March of 2007, Intervenor, City Attorney Charles Johnson, Attorney Kelvin Sanders, Malcolm Larvardain and Attorney Edward Larvadain, Jr., met for lunch and at that meeting, Johnson informed Intervenor that Roy was acting as the City Attorney in this case and that even he was not allowed to “touch it” and that no African-American lawyers would make any money out of this case and that Intervenor would not receive her contingency fee because it should have gone to EMS.

wst... note: this is perhaps the most fascinating paragraph in ms. brown's amended petition. a preceding paragraph --paragraph 36, (see also paragraph 39) of the petition states that ms. brown was terminated by the city attorney, mr. johnson, by letter she received on 28 february 2007.

now here it is less than a month later and she is having lunch with him? how many people have lunch with someone who just terminated their employment, especially under such contentious circumstances?

also is ms. brown suggesting that mr. johnson while lamenting that "no african-american lawyers would make any money" out of the case was leaking information to her and others? is ms. brown suggesting that city attorney johnson was violating the protective order that issued on 19 january 2006?

additionally, in that 13 march 2007, city council meeting, ms. brown addressed the council and made her argument that she was still in the cleco case. the city attorney, mr. johnson, in his response to ms. brown's statement said that "very little of it was true factually, very little of it was accurate legally." ms. brown also played "the race card" and was called on it by city attorney, johnson. looking back at the meeting now, we wonder if what we were really witnessing was a dog and pony show.

During the mediation Council members had to separate Roy and John Sharp who were arguing, Sharp rebuked Roy for participating in the mediation as he had a conflict, however, Roy ignored Sharp’s recommendation and according to the Alexandria Town Talk:

wst... note: this paragraph doesnt make any sense because the preceding paragraph, paragraph 42, says in part that, "no council member were allowed to participate in the mediation." the mediation was held on 26 and 27 march 2007 and around six months later, on 06 september 2007, the city council issued a cryptic statement at mayor roy directing him to cease and desist all involvement in the cleco case.

alexandria, la. doctor wonders if the louisiana state bar has a code of ethics

dr. peter l. couvillion, in his 21 january 2009 gannett/town talk, 'your mail:' "city council, straighten up" [link or download .pdf] makes the same point that we were attempting to make in our bridgett brown is a trip post.

a point for which we were viciously attacked by addle-brained, unethical alexandria, la. attorney greg aymond, la. bar roll 17,449, who claims that he is a "former" member of the ku klux klan, while on his central la politics blog irresponsibly calls several members of the alexandria, la. city council a pack of *nigger street thugs in what must be his desperate attempt to get an alexandria, la. race war going:

see: the light: alexandria (la) attorney greg aymond missed the mark with his "nigga thug" posting and cenlamar: greg aymond needs to apologize and your right hand thief: quotes of the weak for 15 december 2008 and my bossier: alexandria "blog war" brings response from mayor roy

it's a mistake to solely single out ms. brown due to her shabby behavior -- even though it is easy to do so given the media attention. all citizens must demand higher ethical standards and respectable conduct for and by all attorneys -- at all times.

we must demand better law schools with mechanisms in place, to root out the riff-raff before they become attorneys.

we must demand that the state bar move quicker to remove those attorneys who bring dishonor, disrepute and discredit upon the practice of law; who shame honest officers of the court.

*mr. aymond claims that we intentionally misquote him as he disingenuously uses the word "nigga" which if he would have bothered to have done about five minutes or less of research, would have learned that nigga is an eye dialect of nigger and means the same thing.

in another blog post of his, he pointed out that "the term 'nigga street thugs' was meant to be offensive."

in yet another blog post, mr. aymond says that "if my use of the word "nigga" gives people the red-ass, then so be it. mission accomplished."

any reasonable minded person, after analyzing the context of mr. aymond's posts, likely couldnt help but conclude: that nigger was the word that he was really using -- but was too cowardly to use in its proper form.

through another of mr. aymond's typically illogical constructs -- he incredibly attempts to trick his readers into believing that his use of the word nigga is different to the word nigger since it's "hip hop rap slang." although - repeating - both words are the same.

unethical local attorney greg aymond attacks mysterious voices in his head again

infamous alexandria, louisiana attorney greg aymond who claims to be a "former" member of the ku klux klan and who's own unethicalness was shown by his forwarding and blind carbon copying privileged and confidential attorney-client emails to a third party -- has taken offense at our post "bridgett brown is a trip."

the point - if there was one, of the post, was to point out that attorney's are "officer's of the court" that these are the people that are supposed to be protecting our rights and the integrity of the louisiana as well as the american legal system and as such they are or should be bound to conduct themselves at all times in a manner that reflects the legal profession in the best possible light; instead, a lot of them act as bad as or worse than anyone off the street.

we're not the only ones who feel this way - in the 2006 regular louisiana legislative session, senator rob marionneaux offered and the legislature passed his senate concurrent resolution no. 113.

in scr 113, senator marionneaux and then state representative don cazayoux, as well as the rest of the legislature complained about attorney advertising. it reads in part that "some members of the louisiana state bar association are advertising their services in this state has become undignified and poses a threat to the way attorneys are perceived in this state"

it could be argued that an attorney who keeps a blog is engaging in a form of advertising - doesnt mr. aymond post legal documents of cases that he is involved in as well as letters bearing his letter head and contact information?

isnt a well known attorney who attends a public meeting of a governing body and who gets on public access television and makes a spectacle of herself engaging in a form of advertising?

curiously, mr. aymond in his response to our post, desperately attempts to shift the focus away from his own unethicalness -- to turn it into what he represents to be a personal attack. this is the same thing that he accuses his anonymous detractors on another local blog of doing.

of course given mr. aymonds history, it's hard to tell if he was offended either by our mentioning his seedy activities or by our comparing it to that of a black female.

bridgett brown is a trip

alexandria, louisiana attorney, bridgett brown, holds up a sign reading "LIE" at a city of alexandria, la. committee meeting, tuesday, 13 january 2009. speaking from the podium is city of alexandria, la. mayor, jacques roy.

bridgett brown's louisiana state bar membership card.

alexandria, la. mayor jacques roy accused of being deceptive again

an apparently disgruntled city employee, von jennings, "accused mayor jacques roy of falsifying a report on the number of minority-owned businesses that deal with the city." see gannett/the town talk city worker: mayor used false figures in report.

mayor roy in a report to the city council, said that the number of minority and women owned businesses doing business with the city from the period of may 2007 to april 2008 increased from 3.9 percent - the figure from when he first took office on 04 december 2006 to 8.2 percent.

ms. jennings who is on administrative leave from the city and has been recommended for termination, said that the numbers are false and pegged the actual number of minority owned city vendors at just two percent - one percent owned by blacks and one percent owned by women.

the allegations if true, wouldnt be the first time that mayor roy has used deceptive data. in december 2007, the gannett/town talk, reported that the mayor along with his 'chief operating officer,' kay michaels, used fake data in a 20 november 2007 council meeting in what they represented to the city council to be a legitimate traffic study they were using to support the notion for the city to give prescott road to st. francis cabrini hospital. the paper revealed that the source of the data used in the "traffic study" actually came from st. francis cabrini hospital, the very entity that would have of course benefited from the property transfer.

local attorney greg aymond in new email controversy

back in the winter of 2007 and spring of 2008 there was the nationalist movement vs. town of jena lawsuit. mr. richard barrett was the lead attorney but wasnt admitted to practice in louisiana's western district. so local attorney, greg aymond and he set up a pro hac vice situation and they were the nationalist movements attorneys.

mr. aymond says that he is a former member of the ku klux klan, but does anyone ever get out of the klan? for instance, mr. aymond told us how after the news media reported about his klan membership he was out grocery shopping one day and some guy approached him and attempted to do a secret klan handshake. so apparently that guy didnt think so.

for some unknown reason, mr. aymond began to bcc emails from him to mr. barrett and fwd emails from mr. barrett to him, to us. we never asked for any of the emails or expected to see them. we didnt know what they were for or why we were receiving them when they began appearing in our inbox. the sending of the emails to us was totally mr. aymond's doing. furthermore, we couldnt understand why he was attempting to get us involved in the case seeing that we are not lawyers and we wondered if mr. aymond was attempting to set us for something.

we always get a chuckle out of mr. aymond's self promotion about what a paragon of virtue he claims to be and how his only aims are to clean up government by reporting unethicalness -- because its simply untrue. so learn from our mistakes and stay far away from this guy.

anyway, we thought that we would share these emails.

this first set of emails involve jeremiah munsen the grant parish, louisiana kid who was charged and later convicted and sentenced to federal prison for displaying a noose in alexandria, la. the night of the jena 6 march.

according to mr. aymond, mr. munsen came to see him and another attorney, george higgins. mr. aymond said that they told mr. munsen that it would cost up to $30,00 for them to represent him in federal court.

mr. aymond told us that richard barrett of the nationalist movement wanted to represent mr. munsen but for some reason it didnt work out. mr. munsen was eventually represented by a court appointed attorney.

below is an email exchange mr. aymond sent to us in which he was apparently, at mr. barrett's request sizing mr. munsen up.

click here to download a twelve page .pdf of emails with headers