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COMMENT on Louisiana’s Ranking as 2nd Worst Legal Climate in the Nation

**This posting is still being revised, some corrections have been made as of yesterday’s posting.

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As a pro se litigant who has incurred permanent harms due to judicial abuses of authority, CONGRATULATIONS to lawyers, United States attorneys, and judges who are team members of Louisiana Legal Corruption! Although you missed 2008 first place only by one position, your long-term unprincipled actions have earned you national recognition! But take heart, at the rate you’re going, and considering 2 recent news reports, you will probably make first place next time!

(Below are links to websites and articles that provide more than adequate details of the PITIFUL JUDICIAL SITUATION here in Louisiana. Furthermore, the heart breaking emails I receive from victims of Louisiana Judicial Collusion with crony lawyers –as well as from lawyers whom judges are railroading– are as disheartening as my own experiences! No wonder more and more people are seeking justice from television courtrooms!!) *Notably, my first writings about Louisiana’s judicial corruption and apartheid was in January 2006 when I wrote: “Casualties From New Orleans’ Ineptness and Corruption Are Coming To A City Near You.” I was referring to those of us the HURRICANE KATRINA DIASPORA. (a link to that primitive 2006 article is shown below.)

On April 23, 2008, the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper (TP) reported that Louisiana Judge Donald Fendlason’s bailiff listened in on defense attorney Edward LeBlanc’s “whispered” conversation. Then that bailiff went and told Judge (lord) Fendlason, who called LeBlanc for question. It seems in Fendlason’s court one is not entitled to think thoughts disagreeable to Fendlason’s sensibilities. Not only did Fendlason demand to know what LeBlanc whispered in private conversation, Fendlason ordered LeBlanc to jail because of LeBlanc’s private utterings. This begs the question: How can an attorney’s personal conversation be lawful reason to become jailed?!

On April 22, 2008, the TP reported that defendant Jamie Perdigao filed a Motion to recuse U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. The recusal motion contains lots of eye-popping assertions! Letten’s office responded to that motion with customary obfuscation. He appeared to scowl at it, and exhibiting his adept deviation skills said: “We’re no strangers to these types of claims.” When Letten is tooting his own horn about his selective prosecutions he has a lot to say, but he seeks to suppress unfavorable information about him. Good thing Letten’s request to seal Perdigao’s motion was denied!

I believe Letten conducts illegal wiretaps, and conceals it by lying and saying people snitched on each other. And I believe Letten is trying to get next to the New Orleans Inspector General so Letten can “cook” that Intelligence and use it as leverage over people –perhaps like leverage is being used on Johns (like U.S. Senator David Vitter) listed in the New Orleans Canal Street Brothel book, of which that raid was conducted while the world was stunned by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Also, information surrounding convicted former governor, Edwin Edwards’ conviction indicates Letten broke laws to get Edwards. Further, in a Texas Court Opinion, starting from pages 29 through 41, are disturbing details about Letten’s deceitful, aberrant actions. SEE: http://www.txs.uscourts.gov/notablecases/498cr18/98cr18_opin.pdf

With his “Operation Wrinkled Robe” and “Bail Bonds Unlimited” prosecutions which sent sheriffs, 2 judges, and others to jail, Letten practically fooled everybody, including me. Yet, a comparison of Letten’s practice of selectively overlooking other people gives him away. For me, Letten’s deception was crystal clear when Letten broke laws to shield federal Judge A. J. McNamara! Although my STATE LAW case for “Conversion” is not federal subject matter jurisdiction, McNamara confiscated my state court caseunbeknownst to me after we became displaced due to Katrina– and McNamara issued rulings in favor of everyone except me –including in favor of Freddie Mac even though Freddie Mac was not yet made a party due to lack of service of citation and petition! *For more info about that Conversion lawsuit and New Orleans Clerk of Court Dale Atkins -who helped get the case to McNamara, and former judge Carolyn Gill-Jefferson’s (sister-in-law of Congressman William Jefferson) roles in furtherance of McNamara and Freddie Mac, see my AUGUST 19, 2006 POST entitled: Dangerous, Dale N. Atkins, Clerk of Court: Killing Us Softly

Also, I compared Letten’s actions concerning United States Senator David Vitter’s patronage at the Canal Street Brothel, Judge Thomas Porteous, and various corporations which may have netted billions of dollars from White Collar activity. For all such reasons, Letten’s involvement with Louisiana’s legal climate cannot help but foster a BANANA REPUBLIC.

———————————————A Few References:——————————————————————-

*Institute For Legal Reform; Louisiana Fast Facts

http://www.instituteforlegalreform.com/states/lawsuitclimate2008/pdf/LAFastFacts.Pdf *Study Indicates Likely Corruption in Louisiana Supreme Court http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/clark-d3.html

*Rent-a-Justice, New Orleans Supreme Court Faces Allegations of Favoritism for Contributors

http://jonathanturley.org/2008/02/03/rent-a-justice-new-orleans-supreme-court-faces-allegations-of-favoritism-for-contributors/#comment-6755

*Boiler Room Justice in Louisiana

http://www.lawgrace.org/2006/07/01/boiler-room-justice-in-louisiana/

*Indicted Attorney Alleges Misconduct at U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisiana

http://patterico.com/2008/04/27/indicted-attorney-alleges-misconduct-at-us-attorneys-office-in-louisiana/#comments

*FEDERAL JUDGES’ Pay Raise; New Orleans Federal Judiciary Call To Impeach Porteous

http://newsblaze.com/story/20080101084831tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

*Mortgage Mess, Foreclosure Fraud and Impediments to Justice

http://newsblaze.com/story/20071203130614tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.

*Dangerous, Dale N. Atkins, Clerk of Court: Killing Us Softly

http://www.lawgrace.org/2006/08/19/dangerous-clerk-of-court-dale-atkins-killing-us-softly-2/

*Casualties From New Orleans’ Ineptness and Corruption Coming To A City New You

http://lawgrace.org/2006/06/30/casualties-from-new-orleans-ineptness-and-corruption-are-coming-to-a-city-near-you/

*Motion To Reinstate Federal 5th Circuit Appeal Case

http://www.lawgrace.org/2007/09/09/motion-for-reinstatement-5th-circuit-appeal-case-describes-real-estate-fraud-by-freddie-mac-wells-fargo-attorneys-brett-furr-matthew-mullins/

*New Orleans Canal Street Brothel> “The Bust”

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/fbi_brothel/6.html *Motion For Remand -filed in McNamara’s court on June 8, 2006 (see prima facie exhibits in this document) http://www.lawgrace.org/2006/06/12/motion-for-remand-all-exhibits-contained-in-the-actual-pleading-are-not-yet-uploaded/