And if the PD had phantom employees, you can bet that it wasn't the only department that did...
July 02, 2004Contact: Jim Letten
Hale Boggs Federal Building, 500 Poydras Street, 2nd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504/680-3078FEDERAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST 10 INDIVIDUALS FOR EXTORTION AND THEFT FROM NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL SYSTEM
Jim Letten, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, FBI Special Agent in Charge Louis Reigel, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Patricia VAngilder, IRS CID Special Agent in Charge Mike Nelson, and New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass, announced today the filing of three separate Bills of Information charging a total of ten individuals with federal felonies involved in fraud kickbacks involving the Orleans Parish school system. The first Bill of Information charges LILLIAN T. SMITH HAYDEL age 46, with conspiracy, along with former Orleans Parish school system risk manager Carl Coleman, to engage in a series of kickbacks in order to preserve insurance contracts on which she was a broker. The Bill of Information charges violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951, Hobbs Act Conspiracy which carries a maximum statutory penalty of twenty years incarceration.
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