re: What's the most corrupt thing to ever happen in Louisiana?

Leander Perez and offshore Louisiana oil royalties.

In the 1930s, legislation was passed that permitted Perez to use oil on public lands for personal gain. To make his fortune, Perez set up dummy corporations, like Delta Development, which acquired and traded oil leases for huge profits.

Perez then played a pivotal role in denying Louisiana its potential share of offshore oil lease revenues during the administration of President Harry Truman.

In 1948 Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, serving as Truman’s emissary, met with Perez and other Louisiana officials in Washington and proposed a deal to provide two-thirds of all revenue generated by mineral bonuses, leases, and royalties within a three-mile band from the Louisiana coastline into the Gulf of Mexico (and 37.5 percent of all revenue generated by tidelands outside of this boundary) to the state.

According to Truman’s Continental Shelf Proclamation of 1945, the federal government is responsible for all offshore resources, but members of Truman’s administration were willing to negotiate with Gulf states that were most affected by offshore oil drilling.

Rayburn’s offer was flatly rejected by Perez, acting out of personal interests arising from his lucrative leases in Plaquemines Parish. He urged Governor Earl Long to reject the revenue-sharing compromise. Ultimately Long yielded to Perez’s pressure and declined the proposal.

On June 5, 1950, the US Supreme Court ruled that ALL submerged land from the shores of coastal states belonged to the federal government, not to the states, because the federal government claimed sovereignty over all mineral resources beneath the oceans. Perez’s push for 100% control resulted in Louisiana receiving essentially no offshore revenues for decades, while Perez secretly accumulated an $80 million personal oil fortune.The estimated loss to Louisiana over the course of nearly seven decades has been calculated at more than $100 billion.

During my lifetime, it probably was Edwin Edward’s and the awarding of the Casino licenses.

The amount of government employees per capita is probably the most costly.

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Work heavily in the coastal engineering industry. People have no idea the level of corruption that went on with cancelling this between Landry, Nungesser, Gordy Dove, and the Oyster Mafia down in Plaquemines Parish

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Nungesser is the slimiest mfer in Louisiana politics currently, and that's saying something with Cleo Fields and Landry

Having a sheriff win sheriff of the year in the US twice, get inducted into the louisiana political hall of fame, get told by the fbi to retire or get indicted.

Oh, and that chief of police in broussard years ago that supposedly committed suicide? As a police officer, you know the worst place to shoot yourself is in the gut. Agonizing slow death. If he was gong to kill himself, he wouldn't shoot himself n the gut. He met with a good friend of his the night before in a cemetery. Told his friend that the fbi subpoenaed him to testify before a grand jury. Next day or so suicide? Yeah OK.

Mary’s Monkeys if you want to weave corrupted AND Immoral. it is way way up there

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What's the most corrupt thing to ever happen in Louisiana?

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Huey P. Long

frick that piece of shite.

bussing kids in

Being used as the dumping ground for French felons/prisoners and the prostitutes they married in exchange for freedom. Kind of laid the groundwork for everything else that came after.