Wednesday, May 12, 2010

One More Bites The Dust



"...the former director of a nonprofit death-penalty appeals group, permanently surrendered his law license Friday. Picou, 49, pleaded guilty in March to state charges in New Orleans that he stole more than $200,000 from the Capital Appeals Project between 2005 and 2009."

-Written by Bill Lodge, The Advocate, May 1, 2010

This is my former boss. $200,000!? Boy, oh boy! Before education, I attended law school and worked at the Louisiana Indigent Defense Board and later at a private firm. This blows my mind! He must have gone Katrina-Krazy! What about all of his clients? I contrasted the slime balls at the private firm to this intelligent, passionate advocate. You think you know a person...

1 comments:

Yours. truly said...

wow! Precisely - you think you know a person, and then he/she goes and does something that creates a reversal of thought.

How dreadfully unfortunate for that nonprofit. :(