Judges resigning. City Councilmemebers hit with corruption charges. Makes you worry about what they're waiting to sneak in at the end of this week. They already cut all the Medicaid money last week so who knows?
The Jon Johnson business was actually pretty low key all things considered. The Lens first described the case back in January (WHOOPS January 2011, that is!) but we hadn't heard much about it since until today.
Update: So here's the re-cap via NOLADefender. Johnson and his bookkeeper are being charged with conspiracy to divert post-Katrina house gutting and debris removal funds as well as a fraudulent SBA loan via a series of phony non-profits. This was all covered at an event where members of the press were treated to the standard Jim Letten self-congratulatory dickishness about his ongoing struggle against the forces of evil and such. Sal Perricone was unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile there's speculation that Erroll George could be appointed to Johnson's District E seat on an interim basis. Which will be interesting since George just spent several weeks trying to convince everyone he was domiciled in District B. As always, if the Council can't agree on a replacement, then the prerogative falls to the Mayor who we expect will appoint George as his new son just to settle everything up.
Anyway, the real good news here is we get yet another bonus special election to fill this seat. Austin Badon is apparently in. Somebody go poke Cynthia Willard-Lewis with a stick and let's see if we can get a game on.
Upperdate: As Matt points out in the comments, I picked the wrong day to suggest we "go poke CWL with a stick." It turns out Ms Willard-Lewis was hospitalized recently. I only learned of this yesterday afternoon after making an off the cuff joke here. I'm sorry about the timing. I wasn't trying to be insensitive.
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