holy crap!

I figured that when the feds ensnared Stan "Pampy" Barre that they'd get Markey-Marc.  I never figured they'd get Oliver Thomas as well:

In the most dramatic development to date in a sprawling probe of corruption in New Orleans city government, longtime City Councilman and mayoral hopeful Oliver Thomas has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to charges of demanding illegal payments from a City Hall vendor and is expected to resign his at-large council seat as early as Monday, sources familiar with the case said Saturday.
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The case against Thomas grew out of conversations between federal prosecutors and restaurateur Stan "Pampy" Barre, who pleaded guilty in January to participating in a separate scheme to skim more than $1 million from a massive energy-savings contract that former Mayor Marc Morial signed in the waning days of his administration, the sources said.

I've always said that Pampy wasn't going to jail for Markey-Marc.  He's just too old to want to die in prison.  But if he can get even less time in Club Fed by giving up Thomas, what the heck.

(Full disclosure:  as a very frequent flier out of MSY, I've been subjected to the awful food that Barre serves at his places at Louis Armstrong International Airport.  He got those contracts because of his relationship with Markey-Marc, so for my money, he should rot in prison.)

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