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Five years ago Golf Channel visited the Crescent City, seven months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything but the Gulf Coast’s resiliency. That word, resiliency, is mentioned time and time again now. Five years ago, it was ‘normalcy.’ That’s all anyone wanted, just to go back one day in time.
New Orleans is empathizing. Images on the TV look like God dumped his waste basket on Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tornadic activity, further showcasing nature’s unapologetic cruelty, has taken away everything people have worked for all their lives. Taken over 340 lives as well.
New Orleans is everything. It bursts at the seams with beauty and despair. It is sincere and sardonic. Marcus Mumford sings “Awake My Soul” along with thousands of carefree voices while a banner flies above promoting a local strip club.

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Soliciting for a crime against nature is the act of seeking out someone with the intention of engaging in “unnatural carnal copulation” for pay.
If the conviction involves soliciting a minor the individual must still register as a sex offender, Stiaes said.
William Quigley, a New Orleans lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said Stiaes’ bill puts solicitation on the same legal footing as prostitution. He said the first offenses of both crimes are misdemeanors and repeat convictions are felonies.
To equalize the punishment with prostitution, Stiaes’ bill also rewrites the penalties for a second or subsequent solicitation to require a minimum $250 fine and a maximum $2,000 fine and up to two years in jail. The solicitation offense now has no minimum fine and a maximum of five years in jail.

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St. Pierre is on trial for using bribes and kickbacks to get contracts for his technology company NetMethods. Meffert, who already pleaded guilty to federal charges and is cooperating with the prosecution, testified that St. Pierre used cash, gifts, provided strippers who sometimes performed paid-for sex acts as a way to influence potential business partners and clients to land million-dollar contracts.      St. Pierre acknowledged some of Meffert’s accounts, though portraying it more as harmless fun, not a way to get contracts. He testified he and his co-workers and Meffert typically went out drinking after work, and they would go to Visions Men’s Club – a strip bar on Dowman Road in New Orleans East – and drink. But he said everyone in the group paid from time to time.  St. Pierre said those outings to the strip club were never meant to be a bribe.

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2011-05-25 / Opinions and Ideas
Jewel Laverne Grayson was born and raised in Paris, Texas. She left home while in her teens for New Orleans, La., where she soon learned the ropes of prostitution. As with most girls in that profession, she changed her name to Grace Goldstein and sometimes used the prefix of Mrs.

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NEW ORLEANS — The criminal trial of former New Orleans technology contractor Mark St. Pierre began in federal court Monday. St. Pierre is accused of bribing and giving kickbacks to former city tech chief Greg Meffert.
Meffert has already pleaded guilty in the case, but the question many are wondering is, how high up did it all go?
St. Pierre arrived at federal court with his wife at his side. The court selected a jury by lunch, then, attorneys laid out their cases.
“Mark St Pierre gave lavish gifts to Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, and to Greg Meffert, the chief technology officer of the city of New Orleans in return for these multi-million dollar contracts,” said former federal prosecutor, Donald “Chick” Foret.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Coman told the jury about dinners, drinks and even adult entertainment for Greg Meffert that St Pierre paid for.

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NCAA Responds to U.S. Letter about Football Playoff The National Collegiate Athletic Association “has no mandate to create” a football playoff unless its members push for one, the group’s president said in response to a Justice Department letter this month that discussed the wisdom of the Bowl Championship Series and the prospects of replacing it with a national playoff. Mark Emmert also noted that, other than licensing postseason bowl games, the NCAA “has no role to play in the BCS” and that questions about whether it “serves ‘the interest of fans, colleges, universities, and players’ [are] better directed to the BCS itself.” The Justice Department letter to which Emmert responded is the first confirmation the department has given that it is examining college football’s system for crowning a national champion and considering action against it. Critics have long called for the government to investigate the BCS for possible antitrust violations.
Sex Work to Pay for European Tuition Bills
A survey by a German research center found that one in thre …

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PJ: Finally, this being a Christmas episode, we get to hear a lot of New Orleans musicians play Christmas songs as background music. What did you hear?
JJ: I heard Ingrid Lucia singing “Zat You, Santa Clause?” in the bar with Davis and Aunt Mimi; Theryl deClouet a.k.a. “Houseman” with “Pimp My Sleigh” on the jukebox at Ladonna’s; Aaron Neville’s “Louisiana Christmas Day” on another box at Gigi’s; bluesman Sonny Landreth’s “Got to Get You Under My Tree”; and New Birth Brass Band playing “Jingle Bells” after the Soul Apostles gig. Pianist Tom McDermott played two holiday songs in the James Booker rolling style piano: “Deck the Halls” at the police station and “Let It Snow” on the end credits. And there’s Louis Prima’s classic, “What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swinging)?” at the Bernette home.

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Not only would the new plan better maintain the value of each person’s vote, it also means to preserve the fabric of the one district where minority voters comprise the majority population. The 3rd District, which is primarily African American, would gain six precincts, mostly from communities in Avondale and Bridge City from the 2nd District and Woodmere from the 1st. In exchange, it would give to the 4th District the southern Kenner precincts bounded by Waldo and Pettite streets and Airline and David drives.
The 2nd District stands to claim from the 4th District neighborhoods around Airline Park Drive.
Lee-Sheng amended an earlier version of the new map on May 11, asking to hold onto three precincts along Airline Drive east of Clearview Parkway in Metairie. The Sheriff’s Office had raided hotels in those areas for drugs and prostitution, and Lee-Sheng is involved in passing regulations to clean up that stretch.

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After the law passed “we received numerous, numerous calls from … restaurants,” said Councilwoman Maria DeFrancesch. She said attorney Tamithia Shaw “worked diligently” to amend the legislation to address some of the problems with the law.
The council unanimously adopted those amendments at its Thursday meeting.
The background check cost $50, which council members said proved cost-prohibitive.
“We don’t want to be cost-prohibitive,” Shaw said, “but we do want to know who’s behind the bars.”
The notarized affidavit to receive an alcohol beverage outlet employee card will state that the applicant has no criminal background, and falsification of the document could result in the loss of the card, Branigan said.
The card application is available from Kenner’s Department of Inspections and Code Enforcement. Inspectors will begin enforcing the law on July 15, said Shaw, who is the interim director of that department.
To get an employee card, the licensee must be 18 years or older and must not have been convicted of a felony or prostitution.

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Donations from son on trial for corruption cast shadow on Jefferson School Board member’s campaign finances
Published: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:46 PM     Updated: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 3:12 PM
Jefferson Parish School Board member Ray St. Pierre has mostly avoided the negative attention surrounding his son, Mark St. Pierre, the New Orleans technology vendor whose federal corruption trial has recently showcased lurid accounts of bribes, kickbacks and decadence, even prostitution.
But the School Board member’s name popped up during the trial Monday, when a witness said the younger St. Pierre paid for illegal campaign contributions to his father, among numerous other allegations of impropriety.
A review of Ray St. Pierre’s campaign finance reports shows at least $6,625 in contributions over several years from Mark St. Pierre and three companies associated with him in his technology dealings with City Hall. It’s not clear, however, which contributions Jimmy Goodson, who worked as a gofer for Mark St. Pierre, was referring to as illegal when he testified.

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