Bodenheimer Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Testify

The Times-Picayune reports that former 24th JDC District Judge Ronald Bodenheimer pleaded guilty to federal charges (drug conspiracy, mail fraud, and mail fraud conspiracy) and has agreed to become a government witness in an extensive investigation into corruption in the Jefferson Parish judiciary. "Under a plea agreement with prosecutors, Bodenheimer faces three years, six months in prison. U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan set July 9 for sentencing. Bodenheimer remains under house arrest." U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said Bodenheimer's plea "represents not the conclusion of our investigation, but the beginning."

Posted by AJR at March 31, 2003 07:30 PM