The NOPD officers were complaining that the out-of-town guards didn't have appropriate paperwork and worried that the NOPD cops would lose out on details, Branch said.
Branch testified that Roussel told him he would take care of the problem. Roussel told him he was "best friends" with NOPD Superintendent Warren Riley and had even served as best man at Riley's wedding.
Branch was impressed. "That's a lot of stroke," he testified.
The Texas businessman testified that he gave Roussel $500 in cash in a clandestine meeting inside a Home Depot "storage building" for the assistance. Branch said he gave Roussel two other $500 payouts for assisting with subsequent security matters.
This first incident is apparently in the context of a "post-Gustav" security opportunity. There's just no way to measure the perpetual economic boom provided by life here in the disaster zone. And of course the "subsequent security matters" derive from Entergy. And it's all quite cute in its predictability and whatnot.
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