Longtime NOLA USAU retires, has falling out with his boss over a controversial case

The Eastern District of Louisiana's DOJ in New Orleans has long been one of the most dyfunctional & corrupt USAO's in the United States and it looks like things are still going strong over there which is why there is no public confidence in this place. Once again the entire criminal justice system is dysfunctional based on this article.

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".....he said that Strasser personally had assigned him the job of leading a grand jury investigation into the 2005 death of Joey Georgusis, the 23-year-old son of Joe Georgusis, a wealthy former client of Strasser from Strasser’s time as a lawyer in private practice.

McMahon’s remarks ran counter to Strasser’s contention that he has recused himself and has had no involvement in any matter related to the death of his client’s late son."

In the interview, he also doubled down on his claim that Strasser personally selected him for the Georgusis case.

In response, Strasser rejected McMahon’s characterization of Strasser’s recusal from the case of Joey Georgusis as untrue.

But then came an article published in The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate on Sept. 29. The story said that McMahon had first been assigned to look into the 2005 death of Joey Georgusis in 2015, when Kenneth Polite was the U.S. attorney. The story reported that Polite made the assignment after then-Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand and then-Orleans Parish Coroner Jeffrey Rouse visited the U.S. attorney's office and urged Polite to have a prosecutor investigate the case — which had initially been ruled a drug overdose — as a covered-up murder.

Rouse, whose campaign for coroner had gotten much of its financial support from Georgusis’ father, had recently changed the official manner of death to “unknown.” Normand’s office had also investigated the case; unbeknownst to Polite’s office, Normand was a paid consultant for Georgusis’ father.