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… this was one of those stories”
Episode 1 of Smoke Screen: Betrayal on the Bayou is now streaming
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Jim Mustian
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Jim Mustian
@JimMustian
@AP Investigations 📝| Wise🪑 @NSULA | 🎙Co-host of @sonymusic's Betrayal on the Bayou, the fall of the South's most notorious DEA agent | Signal: mustian.76
Joined December 2010
- NEW: In a late-night reversal, the federal judge overseeing the New Orleans Roman Catholic bankruptcy recused himself after @AP reported he donated tens of thousands of dollars to the church and ruled in its favor: “This was a clear and blatant conflict"
- NEW: A woman sent undercover into a drug house was raped twice and then charged by Louisiana authorities just weeks after the recorded attack "She was an addict," the lieutenant overseeing the meth buy told @AP. "We just used her as an informant"
- NEW: The @TheJusticeDept is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police. The "pattern or practice" investigation comes more than three years after the deadly arrest of Ronald Greene w/ @JZBleiberg @AP apnews.com/article/baton-…
- Giuliani called the @SDNYnews investigation "pure political persecution," adding he "never represented a foreign anything before the U.S. government." w/ @etuckerAP @MikeBalsamo1 @Lneumeister
- NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A longtime DEA agent known among drug traffickers as the "white devil" has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for stealing money from suspects, falsifying government records and committing perjury during a federal trial
- The interview focused in part on Trump’s relationship with @DeutscheBank, his biggest and longest standing creditor, sources familiar tell me and @mikesisak
- First time visitor to New Orleans from Greece alarmed by mass shooting. "It's really unfortunate that this happens all the time in the U.S."
- "The Sheriff's Office had institutional knowledge of this situation. They were aware he was a veteran. They were aware he had mental health issues and that he might become kind of paranoid like this." theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne… via @theadvocatebr @theadvocateno
- Replying to @JimMustian“The public shouldn’t have to rely on a judge’s personal certainty about his own rectitude,” legal ethics professor Kathleen Clark tells @AP. “The fact that he would even make this assertion shows how misguided and ethically blind this judge is.”
- Investigators found pipe bombs concealed within coolers, according to an law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by @AP. The devices were wired for remote detonation and a corresponding remote control was discovered inside the suspect’s truck
- . @MichaelCohen212 is expected to appear this Friday for an interview at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. That and more developments in the investigation of Donald Trump's finances w/ @mikesisak @AP The meeting Friday would be Cohen's eighth apnews.com/article/donald…
- Replying to @JimMustianh/t to @RVargasWrites who has covered clergy abuse in New Orleans for years and notes the recusal came hours after the Guardian joined @AP in asking Guidry about a lawyer involved in making the donations while his firm represented the archdiocese
