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MOTION TO QUASH CANDIDATES BLACKLIST OCT. 12, 2019 JEFFERSON PARISH

By Tracie Burke | Motion to Quash LLC | August 9, 2019

Use of political campaign funds has been of great interest lately among Jefferson Parish tax paying voters and members of the Louisiana Board of Ethics.

Of the 126 Jefferson Parish candidates, 22 names appear on the Motion to Quash Blacklist for reports of misuse of campaign funds, unfair business practices, conflicts of interest, discrimination, bribes through campaign funds, and/or some other report of ethics violations. The Blacklisted candidates are highlighted in yellow on the spreadsheet.

The Motion to Quash spreadsheets are sufficient to provide an accurate, reliable and sound judgment of campaign finance abuse. Motion to Quash LLC identifies quid pro quo by compiling and analyzing campaign contribution data and through its understanding of the electoral and public policy-making process.

Candidates are divided in the following categories. The number of blacklisted candidates for each category is provided. The link for the spreadsheet is provided below.

  • Governor- 0
  • Lieutenant Governor- 1
  • Secretary of State- 0
  • Attorney General- 0
  • Treasurer- 0
  • Commissioner of Agriculture- 0
  • Commissioner of Insurance- 1
  • Associate Justice Supreme Court- 2
  • BESE- 0
  • State Senator- 0
  • State Representative- 5
  • Sheriff- 1
  • Clerk of Court- 1
  • Assessor- 1
  • Parish President- 1
  • Coroner- 0
  • Councilman at Large- 2
  • Councilman- 6
  • Justice of the Peace- 1
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Recognized by the National Whistleblower Center (NWC), Tracie Burke is Louisiana author of Motion to Quash. She can be reached at tracie@motiontoquash.org. Motion to Quash LLC successfully promoted legislation that supports the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and amendments to the Whistleblower Protection Act. Please Support journalism in the public interest by contributing today. Click here to donate Motion to Quash ISSN 2644-1594 is the copyrighted property of Motion to Quash LLC 2019.  NWC’s mission is to support whistleblowers in their efforts to expose and help prosecute corruption and other wrongdoing around the world.

MOTION TO QUASH LLC BLACKLIST

Jefferson Parish Elected Officials and Attorneys Who Have Incurred Suspicion

By Tracie Burke| Motion to Quash, LLC| 7/21/2019| 11:10 AM

A comprehensive list of Attorneys who clearly can’t win a case unless the courtroom fix is in, the MOTION TO QUASH LLC BLACKLIST includes Jefferson Parish elected officials and attorneys whose campaign finance contributions signifies impropriety and creates bias. The omission of a name could mean the individual or group is under review by the Louisiana Ethics Committee, or some other jurisdiction where the information is confidential pending a hearing on the matter. MTQ examiners review each case individually and requests for charges are consistently turning up hearings and indictments. 

A campaign contribution becomes a bribe when the quid pro quo is shown. Jefferson Parish elected officials are benefiting from the confusion of campaign finance laws by steering contracts and legal work to election campaign donors, and by violating a number of judicial and lawyer codes.

Merely receiving a campaign contribution from someone who benefits from the elected official actions is not enough the Supreme Court said in a 1991 decision overturning the extortion conviction of a West Virginia legislator. Prosecutors must prove a donation caused an elected official to pull levers of government power in ways he would not otherwise. 

Other courts have held a payment doesn’t need to be tied to a specific official for a jury to find quid pro quo, “so long as the defendant understood that he was to take official action whenever an opportunity was presented to him.” It’s a matter of explaining it properly.

MOTION TO QUASH LLC BLACKLIST spreadsheets are sufficient to conclude the benefits theory because it proves there was an understanding between the elected officials and the contributors that contributions would lead to work or a favorable outcome of a case.  

Many Jefferson Parish elected officials did escape the Blacklist but that requires another article for those deserving of praise. Called the MOTION TO QUASH LLC WHITELIST, it’s the reverse of blacklisting. 

Check back in August for updates to the MOTION TO QUASH LLC BLACKLIST. 

Tracie Burke is Louisiana author of Motion to Quash. Her work focuses on providing information, education, and justice for women survivors of domestic violence. She can be reached at tracie@motiontoquash.org Motion to Quash LLC promotes legislation that supports the American Anti-Corruption Act. Please Support journalism in the public interest by contributing today. Motion to Quash ISSN 2644-1594 is the copyrighted property of Motion to Quash LLC 2019 Click here to donate.



 


MOTION TO QUASH BY TRACIE BURKE (not yet published)

From Gretna, Louisiana, author Tracie Burke, comes a riveting case of domestic violence, false allegations and corruption in Louisiana. It is her response of a lifetime, a domestic violence survivor caught between the politics of Jefferson Parish and the corruption of the Gretna Police Department and Jefferson Parish District Attorney. In a drunken rage, Tracie Burke’s ex-husband Harold “Andy” LaCour ran her down with his truck, breaking her femur in half. She lost half her blood. He nearly killed her and he was never held accountable for her injuries. Little did she know, the biggest injustice was yet to come.