LA Agriculture Commissioner Odom (D) to Be Tried for Bribery

The Alexandria, LA, Daily Town Talk ^ | 11-28-02 | Morgan, Robert

[Theodore R.]

BATON ROUGE - Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom will go to court Monday on charges of public bribery despite prosecution efforts to delay the corruption trial.

Prosecutors argued in a hearing Friday that the district court did not have jurisdiction to hold trial while previous court rulings are on appeal.

[Theodore R.]

Notice again that there is no "D" in this article. Would there have been an "R" if appropriate?

[roderick]

The "R" would have been in the first sentence. At least Odom wasn't described "conservative" as Gary Condit was.

[kcvl]

DWF officials outraged by Odom's circumvention of deer importation rules - Louisiana Sportsman Magazine

[kcvl]

Odom enters not-guilty plea to extortion, bribery charges

The indictment charges him with:

· Two counts of conspiracy to commit public bribery.
· Three counts of pubic bribery.
· One count of conspiracy to commit felony theft.
· Five counts of felony theft.
· One count of conspiracy to commit extortion.
· One count of extortion.
· One count of filing or maintaining false public records.
· Two counts of conspiracy to commit malfeasance in office.
· Two counts of malfeasance in office.
· One count of money laundering.
· One count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
· One count of obstruction of justice.

The District Attorney's Office subpoenaed thousands of pages of records dealing with Odom's election campaigns, his personal financial records, a loan from his campaign fund to the First Baptist Church of Zachary, financial records on his son's house in Zachary and his daughter-in-law's financial records.

Prosecutors also subpoenaed corporate income tax files and other records associated with a food-storage contract between AMW Management Services Inc. and Odom's agency.

[kcvl]

State Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom last week became the third straight Louisiana agriculture commissioner to be indicted on criminal charges.

[Theodore R.]

But he may be "conservative" by national Democrat standards. I know he is an entrenched down-ballot officeholder who is rarely opposed on a serious basis. So, are you now saying Gary Condit was "not" a conservative? Remember, John Kasich campaigned FOR Condit against a fellow Republican.