New Orleans Strip Clubs: Greg Meffert’s lawyer asks jury in civil crime-camera trial to look past …
October 27, 2009
In his closing, Smith has derided the argument by plaintiffs Southern Electronics and Active Solutions. Both companies argued that they were local do-gooders trying to help their hometown, while big business stalwart Dell Inc. joined forces with Meffert and his corporate benefactor, Mark St. Pierre, to filch their technology and get rich off their work.
John McCucker / The Times-PicayuneA civil jury began deliberations today in a case alleging that former New Orleans technology director Greg Meffert and others conspired to filch their technology.Smith said the plaintiffs simply haven’t presented the evidence to prove their case and, what’s more, that they were the greedy ones, holding the city’s credit hostage during much of 2006, when New Orleans was fighting a post-Katrina crime wave.
But Smith also had to confront the plaintiffs’ repeated attacks on Meffert’s use of a credit card provided by St. Pierre’s company NetMethods. That was the card that Meffert used to finance a variety of personal purchases, such as visits to strip clubs and home furnishings, and, most notably, family vacations for him and his boss, Mayor Ray Nagin.
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