Sending a Message <\/strong><\/h2>\n“The sentence handed down today should send a message to all public officials who engage in illegal and corrupt practices that they will be held accountable for their conduct,\u201d said FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Field Division, Bryan A. Vorndran.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatrick Dejean misused his office and a position of trust for his own personal benefit,” he added. “The FBI New Orleans Field Office stands with our federal, state, and local partners and prosecutors to declare our commitment to vigorously investigate and prosecute corruption at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n
US District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon also ordered Dejean to serve a three-year term of supervised release on the completion of his sentence, and to pay over $70,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A judge in Louisiana has been sentenced to three years in a federal prison after being found guilty of siphoning off money deducted from debtors’ pay checks, which he blew mainly in local casinos. Between, May 2009 and August 2016, Patrick Dejean used his position as a Justice of the Peace\u00a0 — the term in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":117473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Louisiana Judge Patrick Dejean Jailed for Gambling Away Debtors' Cash<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n