Plenty of narrative drama

One of the ideas I keep throwing out there in the hopes that someone will pick up and run with it is a book-length treatment of the Jefferson family and their influence on city politics.  I can think of more than just a few people who could do this well so maybe if one of them wants a little glory, or at least one reader's gratitude, they'll eventually take me up on this.

Anyway Archie Jefferson is probably the least relevant Jefferson although his story does add some flare.

In 1990, he pleaded guilty to making a false statement on a credit-card application and served six months in jail. Three years later, he was caught forging judges’ signatures onto bogus bond reduction orders that led to the release of more than a dozen inmates. He pleaded guilty again a couple years after that, this time to three counts of writing bad checks.

Then he admitted using his clients’ money and settling cases without their consent, though he said it was done in the haze of inexperience and drug addiction. He was in the news again in 2001, for illegally razing a 19th-century home next door to his sister’s place in the Irish Channel, then blithely ignoring the $25,000 ticket he received from the city.

When he was permanently disbarred in 2004, the Louisiana Supreme Court cited “indisputable evidence of a fundamental lack of moral character and fitness.”

But he was a member, albeit an outlier, of the mighty Jefferson clan.