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 Assistant U.S. Attorney Mignonne Griffing should consider renting an apartment in Ouachita Parish, assuming she doesn't have one already. It would cut down on the drive time between her confines in Shreveport at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana and the locale that's kept her quite busy of late in prosecuting public officials for manipulating their positions for personal gain.
A career prosecutor who's been with the U.S. Attorney's Office for about two decades, Griffing put another feather in her hat Monday when U.S. District Court Robbie James sentenced two former Monroe city councilmen to federal prison for extracting bribes from a controversial local businessman, who's lucky the government took a pass on prosecuting him, too.
Former councilman Red Stevens got the worst of James' wrath, earning a 51-month sentence for his conviction last year on two counts of bribery and racketeering. Former councilman Arthur Gilmore got 41 months for the same charges. James lightened the load on Gilmore because his attorney, Charles Kincade, successfully argued his client should receive a lesser sentence since one of his criminal acts wasn't as egregious as the government would have us believe.For the full story, subscribe to the The Concordia Sentinel's NEW E-Edition! |
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