FBI: LA State Senator is Money Laundering — Did AP Mention He’s a Democrat?
Posted on October 27, 2007
Today it’s being reported that Louisiana State Senator Derrick Shepherd stands accused by the FBI of money laundering. The AP duly reported the messy story surrounding this charge, of course. Their story was long and exhaustive for an AP report. Only one tiny, little thing seems to have been forgotten by the AP. They seem to have forgotten to mention that Shepherd is a Democrat. I know… shocking, eh?
This is just another in a long, long line of MSM reports — and AP reports in particular — where a report on criminal activity by an elected official seems to lack party identification… IF that criminal activity is perpetrated by a Democrat, of course.
The AP begins with:
State Sen. Derrick Shepherd helped a felon launder nearly $141,000 in bogus construction bond fees last year, keeping nearly half the money, an FBI agent said.
So, what was it that this State Senator did to assist this felon launder money?
According to an account of the hearing by The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, Smith testified that Shepherd, an attorney who often handles personal injury cases, wrote “settlement proceeds” on memo lines of checks to Moyo, but there is no evidence that he did any legal work for her.
Smith said Moyo signed five checks totaling $140,686 - two bearing notes that they were for bond fees - to Shepherd’s account. Shepherd kept about $65,000 of Moyo’s money and returned the remaining amount, the agent testified.
Nice scam, eh?
Now, this time another news source does mention the party of our erstwhile Senator Shepherd. The Times-Picayune didn’t forget to mention Shepherd’s Party affiliation, so, props to the TP.
It is interesting, though, to note that calling a corrupt Democrat a Democrat didn’t bother the local paper much. But the AP? Well, they have a “policy” ya see. They only mention party affiliation when it is “germane” to the story, I hear.
And it all begs the question: when exactly WILL being a Democrat become “germane” to the AP’s coverage of corruption in our public officials?
» Filed Under Illegal Activities, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Politics As Usual
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No surprise here. These “reporter” kids get out of J school after being taught that they are the fourth branch of government. So they ACT as a kind of political party…but always liberal.
Just how it is.
LoL. I had a decent sized comment on this subject and Louisiana politics, but it seems I’ve been censored. Truth seems to be adverse to this sad little sites agenda.
This site has two filters Michael. If your comment contained more than two links, profanity or spam like comments, the filters got you.
If your comment was among several hundred that I sort through, I probably missed it. Happens.
As for the rest of your comment… What compels one to frequent sites that they ideologically oppose, believe to be untruthful and censors their comments?
Ideology has nothing to do with what sites I visit. Some I visit because they are insightful, some because they are amusing, and some like this one that are both amusing in their ignorance, but in dire need of some kind of voice of reason and logic from someone with knowledge of the topics. I do not post on just anything, but only things that I am personally involved with or have extensive knowledge and experience with such as this one.
I live in Louisiana, born and raised here. Firstly, the (D-LA)’s are not Democrats, at least not what anyone outside of LA would call a Democrat. They are more extreme versions of Lieberman. LA reps and senators both Dem and Repub vote 95-100% along the Repub/Conservative party line.
Louisiana is also the state ranked #1 in political corruption. I’m not saying this is a fault of Repub/Fake Dems, I tend to think it is just an LA problem. People here have elected David Duke (R-KKK) and Edwin Edwards (Corrupt Dem - Catholic). Not only that, but even after dealing with two terms of corrupt Edwards, the ignorant majority of LA still voted for him and elected him two more times.
People here (for the most part) do not vote on issue stances, experience, intelligence, competence, skill, education, voting records, or in Edwards case… histories of corruption. None of that matters to the majority vote here. The majority voting block of LA consists mostly of rural-living middle-aged to elderly, bible-belt religious, and for the lack of a better word…. hicks. These people only care about connections and name clout. If you were to walk around asking people who they are voting for, they do not just tell you who, but how their family tree connects in some way to the person they voted for as the reason why they voted for them. “Oh, my nephew works with great grandfathers second cousins son.” “Oh, he’s a Gautier! The Gautier’s have a big business in Marksville and are one of the oldest families in town.” These are reasons you will get for who voted for who.
What I am getting at is, Louisiana is not a valid place to compare to the rest of the US. Maybe you could compare it to Alabama or Arkansas, but thats as close as your going to get. Although, with election of Jindal, we might actually be seeing a change in Louisiana… one could only hope.
“Oh, my nephew works with great grandfathers second cousins son.â€
Should read “Oh, my nephew works with Insert Politican Name Here’s great grandfathers second cousins son.” It was misunderstood as code.