Crook-du-Jour
This week I heard a funny story about Eddie Compass, our Ex-Chief of Police. He was schmoozing with a couple obvious L.A. contacts regarding some media deal at Table One, the official coppers and cronies hang-out since the storm.
The person recanting this story said the L.A. people had that overdrugged, zombie + designer clothes that require one to be carried about town look that gives them away. She also said the L.A. zombies looked like they couldn’t wait for Eddie to leave (this is how I knew she was telling the truth). She also said Eddie was bragging loudly into his cell phone in the middle of Table One about how some high profile Washington, D.C. university was offering him an honorary degree. Great ~ now he can work his way up to “Brownie” level administrative position. The same person that fucked him over when his city needed help. What aspirations ! That’s how this country works folks. Our tax bucks going to a bunch of ass lickin’ ‘civil servants’ , CEO’s and academics. The U.S. is just one giant scam-a-palooza. There’s more:
This week we have also had the resignation of levee board President, Jim Huey, who resigned because he is under investigation by the Inspector General for paying himself backpay of about $91,000 that he was not entitled to. There is some speculation that Eddie C. was going to get busted on something related to stealing too.
Today’s Crook-du-Jour is Joe Impastato, he’s a St. Tammany Parish Councilman. He’s being indicted on extortion.
He allegedly demanded a 50% cut from Omni Pinnacle, a FEMA contractor. Way to go Joe ! You’re doin’ a heck of a job.
How can we fix this mess when we still have looting going on at upper levels? Average U.S. citizen sure won’t be too generous about handing over his hard-earned tax dollar for a bunch of crack-head politicos.
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I have been in need of an angst cleaning belly laugh ever since I returned to New Orleans. Got it this morning reading a very large ad in the Times Picayune from the New Orleans Business Council.
Calling for a clean sweep of the Levee Board, the Council is calling for an end to nepotism, corruption and transparency in business dealings so Washington will make nice with us and open the cash spigots.
When I read the list of signatories, I laughed so hard that coffee came out my nose. Only Tom Benson’s name seemed to be missing from the list. At least a half dozen of the signatories run organizations that make the Levee Board look like the “Little Sisters of Charity” in comparison.
If these “citizens” are at the tiller of the good ship New Orleans, keep your life jackets handy! The “usual suspects” are at it again.
You know what they say about us in Louisiana:
Half of it is under water
. . .
and the other half is under indictment.
All because of the usual suspect-oil!
People don’t wanna’ see what they don’t want to look at.
Laurie