re: NOLA Councilman Jason Williams indicted by Feds today

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My wife and in-laws know Jason...he's good people. Apparently from multiple accounts, his accountant is dogshite and falsified multiple people's taxes unknowingly putting them in a shitty situation. Weird that it wasn't an issue until he stated he was running against Leon, and next thing you knew the feds were looking into him. Sadly I think this is all political.

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I think you're being a little naive. I don't doubt that he is a nice guy. But one of the things I noticed is that they said he has a long history of owing taxes to the IRS and not paying them in a timely manner. He's a typical politican from New Orleans just like the mayor. Except that he's also a defense attorney too, so that is a pretty bad combo. They 're used to trying to get out of stuff.

I wasn't crazy about him jumping on the bandwagon with that other guy and proposing a law to ban tear gas use in the city right after the NOPD used teargas on troublemaking protesters who (some anyway) tried to get physically combative with the police to break through their line of defense to keep them from going over. The tear gas did the job.