The WSJ has a long article on the Orleans Levee Board. To the right you see one of their trademarked line drawings, this time of that board's former head.
To save time, I'll let Harry Shearer summarize the WSJ piece:
concentrates on the fractured responsibility of the levee boards, sewerage and water board, and Port, as well […]
From this:
The Orleans Levee Board's longtime staff attorney was suspended Wednesday just minutes before he was scheduled to offer his analysis of controversial decisions by former agency President Jim Huey to hand no-bid contracts to relatives in the days after Hurricane Katrina and to collect nearly $100,000 in back pay several weeks before the storm.
Gary […]
Foti: Levee Board president broke law
A unilateral decision in July by the Orleans Levee Board's then-president, Jim Huey, to pay himself nearly $100,000 in back salary was a clear violation of state law, Attorney General Charles Foti said Thursday in an opinion issued by his staff.
Furthermore, Foti wrote, the $1,000-a-month salary that Huey collected from […]
From this:
The head of the Orleans Levee Board has quit amid questions about no-bid contracts to his relatives in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
The final days of board president Jim Huey's tenure also had been marred by his collection of nearly $100,000 in back pay several weeks before the storm. Huey had led the board […]
I'll leave it to someone else to figure out if anything illegal was done in the following, but it shure sounds suspicious:
Less than a month before Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Orleans Levee Board's finances and left the levees it maintains in shambles, board President Jim Huey requested and got nearly $100,000 in back pay that […]
The article "Is the Orleans Levee Board doing its job?" would be funny if it weren't so disturbing.
- $2.4 million on the Mardi Gras Fountain…
- $15 million for overpasses to Bally's riverboat casino…
- $45,000 for "private investigators to dig up dirt on radio host and board critic Robert Namer"…
- $45,000 on the settlement after Namer […]
