Dear Blogger:
Re: “Jefferson Parish officials got cut in insurance deal,” By Richard Rainey, New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 1, 2009
Many thanks to Richard Rainey and the Times-Picayune for lifting a shroud of secrecy involving Jefferson Parish chief administrative officer Tim Whitmer being a financial beneficiary of parish insurance contracts, a deal emitting a stench worse than opening a refrigerator four weeks after Katrina.
Reading what Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche suspects to be a backroom deal, drenched in likely impropriety, eerily brings to mind shades of former New Orleans city councilman Oliver Thomas accepting funds from a city vendor in a parking lot scheme -- reserving Oliver Thomas three “hots” and a cot in “club fed.”
Tim Whitmer serving at the pleasure of parish President Aaron “13 count confessed felon Nick Baroni is a good friend of mine” Broussard, and Broussard appointing officials awarding contracts being secretly shared with Tim Whitmer, causes one to have visions of Jefferson Parish officials dancing to the beat of the Second Line Theme in a jazz funeral procession.
Because, most evidently, ethics and transparency in Jefferson Parish government, and possible illegalities, are being housed in a mausoleum.
And why no special audit has yet to be conducted, or requested by a “single” Jefferson Parish official -– as called for by the Times-Picayune -- on the $1,300,000 plus invoices submitted to Jefferson Parish by the combined twenty-six count confessed felons, Nick and Keith Baroni, is no longer quite as difficult to comprehend.
Moreover, Jim Letten, now is the time to demonstrate that you are needed more than ever as the U. S. Attorney and squash the accusations that you are more prone to investigate New Orleans African-American officials.
David C. Bellinger
(404) 762-8779
Atlanta, GA
E-mail: davidc53@juno.com
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