Month: October 2023

Louisiana House District 81  candidate (and former long-time Ascension Parish Sheriff) Jeff Wiley poses for a photo along with his nephew, Gubernatorial candidate Stephen Waguespack, at a recent athletic event on the grounds of Olympia Stadium in Baton Rouge.

In what is our final feature prior to this Saturday’s election, Ascension Parish candidate C. J. Matthews assesses a damning audio phone call recorded by Kelsey Delatte, who alleges that she was raped by Ascension Parish Councilman Dempsey Lambert’s son on October 2, 2021.

The audio file was with a public defender who states point blank that DA Ricky Babin and Sheriff Bobby Webre are, “in bed together” regarding not pursuing the probable cause they admit existed and initiating an arrest warrant application at the outset of their prosecutorial efforts.  In the alternative, the defense attorney says Babin could have pursued charges on his own (via a bill of information) but clearly wanted to use the secrecy of grand jury proceedings to shield the true extent to which Babin and Webre may have pushed for prosecution.

Her point is well-taken, especially given our most-recent feature on Delatte wherein Webre plays “Devil’s advocate” with Delatte in suggesting that the intercourse on October 2, 2021 was “consensual” and further that, “nobody believes her.”  Add in the fact that Webre, on the audio at the prior link, flat-out falsely stated to Delatte, “they found three drugs in your system,” and it would seem that any person with at least a couple of functioning brain cells realizes whose side Webre and, by strong inference by his words on the same recording, DA Babin, are on!  We’re still trying to reconcile Babin’s repeated emphasis that he found “probable cause” with his words of, “not having crap” to take to Attorney General Jeff Landry, yet he indicates he plans to ask Landry to look into the case anyway!

Matthews also had very harsh words entailing mail outs being sent by Louisiana House District candidate (and former long-time Ascension Parish Sheriff) Jeff Wiley.  Specifically, Matthews notes the irony of Wiley touting “family values” when he permitted a deputy under his direct supervision, Fred Corder, to elude prosecution for sexually-explicit texts and efforts at meeting a 16-year-old Donaldsonville High School girl for a sexual encounter to be comprised of “oral” and possibly “that other stuff.”

Let’s take a look at Matthews’ final visit with us prior to the election with an emphasis on the fact that, whether as Sheriff-Elect or not, Matthews has committed to us that he will continue to shed a bright spotlight on the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office as a result of numerous people who have come forward either to him, to us, or both entailing further instances of alleged corruption on the part of incumbent Sheriff Bobby Webre:

October 10, 2023:  Matthews analyzes a 10-minute recorded phone call between Kelsey Delatte, her husband, Beau Delatte, and a public defender and civil litigation attorney, after which Matthews slams House District 81 candidate (and former long-time Ascension Parish Sheriff) Jeff Wiley on what Matthews assesses as pure rank hypocrisy regarding “family values.”

In the video, we indicated that we’d provide the mail outs distributed by the Wiley campaign which Matthews openly attacked as being not just inaccurate but for Wiley’s lack of protecting children from a “child predator” as being (Matthews’ word):  “criminal!”  Here are the flyers:

We will point out that “Able to tackle the issues that effect us,” should be “affect us,” but Wiley may be willing to stipulate to not being the sharpest knife in the drawer.  Nevertheless, he likely didn’t win over the votes of any English teachers receiving his mail out!

Let us now list all previous features with Matthews entailing Fred Corder and Kelsey Delatte:

FRED CORDER:

Segment One:  Ascension Parish Sheriff candidate C. J. Matthews attacks former boss (incumbent Sheriff Bobby Webre) in alleging Malfeasance in Office, cover-up of sexting and receiving pornographic images by former Deputy Fred Corder.

Segment Two:  Ascension Parish Sheriff candidate C. J. Matthews openly asks, “What if this was your daughter?” entailing former Deputy Corder’s texts and whether parents would be content for it to be, “just swept under the rug.”

Segment Three:  Ascension Parish Sheriff candidate C. J. Matthews says former Sheriff Jeff Wiley “extorted” him to “shut my mouth” about salacious texts between Deputy Corder and a 16-year-old Donaldsonville High School female student.

Segment Four:  Ascension Parish Sheriff Webre tells Capt. Matthews he’s resigning, then rehires him after attorneys make clear litigation is forthcoming, then tells him 90 days later that Matthews can retire, “only if I’ll allow it.”

Segment Five:  Matthews exposes that, even after alleged juvenile victim was asked via text to “perform oral sex” and provide pictures of her “buttocks and vagina,” in exchange for a “penis” picture, Attorney General’s Office declined to arrest alleged perpetrator Deputy Fred Corder.

Segment Six:  Ascension Parish Sheriff candidate Matthews does mea culpa on Webre’s high school diploma; says LSP Capt. Belinda Murphy “blew a gasket” when learning of his possession of the Corder AG investigation files.

Segment Seven:  EBRP Sheriff Gautreaux arrests Deputy Pizzalato within mere hours of sending sexually-suggestive text messages to 15-year-old juvenile whereas Ascension Sheriffs Wiley / Webre go to great lengths to let Deputy Corder off scot free and engage in subsequent cover-up.

KELSEY DELATTE:

Segment One:  Kelsey Delatte alleges she was raped by Councilman’s son, provides audio evidence of Sheriff Webre all but acknowledging it along with him “victim shaming” her by stating “nobody believes her,” challenging her to have “Kiran (Chawla) come on…..Come on Chris (Nakamoto).”

Segment Two:  Ascension Parish Sheriff Webre says every female he consulted said Delatte didn’t react properly to alleged rape by Councilman Lambert’s son; DA Babin willing to ask Bert Turner for help from AG Landry though admitting, “I don’t have crap!”

In a mere three (3) days, Ascension Parish residents will cast their verdict for whether they want the current status quo to remain in place or whether they seek a fresh change from someone who has been willing to expose, from an insider’s perspective, what he alleges are serious shortcomings in the way the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office has operated.

Voters in sections of the parishes of Livingston, Ascension, and St. James will likewise cast their verdict on whether they wish for a former long-time Ascension Parish Sheriff whom Matthews asserts permitted a “child predator” to escape prosecution (Jeff Wiley) to represent them in the House District 81 in the Louisiana House of Representatives!

In today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature, we were privileged to have State Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Pineville) visit with us regarding his recent efforts to have Louisiana GOP members of the House of Representatives execute a pledge calling for unity and transparency in the selection of Louisiana’s next Speaker of the House of Representatives.  He made it clear when he launched the initiative that he would not be a candidate for Speaker.

Johnson first went public with his efforts in this September 19, 2023 press release announcing his initiative.  Let’s now take a look at our interview with Johnson:

October 9, 2023:  State Rep. Mike Johnson visits with Burns about his initiative and the momentum it has gained.

Now, as we indicated in the video that we would, let’s present all of the other recent media initiatives in which Rep. Johnson has engaged entailing his efforts:

Cover photo for this Business Report feature wherein Johnson’s efforts are referenced by Jeremy Alford.

As stated on the video, we wish Rep. Johnson much success because certainly the process for selecting the Speaker in January of 2020 on the heels of the Edwards reelection victory certainly was very acrimonious with overhang that lasted for a protracted period thereafter!

Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre

In today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature, we’re going to provide a highly-focused internal discussion of the prosecutorial efforts Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre and DA Ricky Babin regarding an allegation made by Kelsey Delatte that Councilman Dempsey Lambert’s son raped her on October 2, 2021.  Let us begin by providing a video interview with Ascension Parish Sheriff candidate C. J. Matthews regarding the contents of the recorded conversation.  Here’s that video:

 
October 4, 2023:  Matthews discusses and analyzes contents of 81-minute recorded conversation between Sheriff Webre, DA Babin, Kelsey Delatte, Beau Delatte, and Tara Whiteside.

And here is the actual recording which Matthews dissects in the above video:

Recorded meeting between Webre, Babin Kelsey Delatte, Beau Delatte, and Tara Whiteside on or about June 23, 2022.

We strongly encourage listening to the entirety of the above audio file because it provides an extremely rare opportunity to listen in on discussions of a potential prosecution of an alleged perpetrator of rape with the added mix that the alleged perpetrator happening to be a sitting Parish Councilman’s son.  At this time, we’ll highlight a few points we found interesting on the audio file above, to wit:

28:34 – DA Babin says he called “a friend” at the AG’s Office to ask if, “they would take a look at this.”

34:30 – Webre suggests holding a “deep breath” to see if AG Jeff Landry will look at the case then explodes in anger and goes on a two-minute tirade upon Kelsey Delatte asking how the case will be presented to Landry.

41:08 – Despite DA Babin saying he’d seek Landry’s help previously, he says, “What I got now is crap!”

46:14 – DA Babin inquires, “Who owns Turner?  Bert Turner?”  He then indicates Landry will do a favor for Bert Turner, and he then says, “I’m going to go to Bert Turner!”  That may be challenging given that Turner died a little over 15 years ago!

47:00 – DA Babin begins explaining why he can’t divulge the contents of the Arrest Warrant Affidavit which Judge Cody Martin allegedly declined to sign.  Babin says that he’ll provide the lawyer with something and, “if it gets stuck in there, it gets stuck….I’ve got to cover my ass.”

49:30 – DA Babin asks, “Are we going down that road (to civil litigation)?” to which Beau Delatte responds, “We’re going down that road.”  We’ll have more on that in segment three of this series.

50:48 – Whiteside wants explanation for why everyone says there’s PC (probable cause) and yet no indictment or arrest.

52:28 – DA Babin says he “honestly thought” the, “Grand Jury would find PC.  Everybody in my office thought they would find PC.”

53:00 – DA Babin indicates he’s had Grand Juries, “find true bills when I was begging them not to praying they wouldn’t.”  What the hell!?  His lame explanation was illogical to us!  If you have doubts that you’re prosecuting the wrong guy due to mistaken identity (twin brother), cease pursuit by the Grand Jury until you get that cleared up!  Good God!!

53:48 – DA Babin indicates that, on the matter above, he was “stuck with” the fact the Grand Jury had returned a true bill indictment when he admits it may have been the twin brother who committed the crime!  “Stuck with!!”  Geez!!  He’s admitting he may be pursuing a conviction of an innocent man while the actual perpetrator continues to run around free!

54:30 – Sheriff Webre begins making extensive arguments that Kelsey Delatte consented to the sexual encounter.

55:58 – DA Babin declares, “PC (probable cause) went nowhere.”

57:20 – Sheriff Webre begins explaining how, “me and Ricky (Babin),” observed Delatte to perform well in the immediate aftermath of the DWI pullover and observe that she’s not, “sloppy drunk,” and, soon thereafter, FALSELY states that, “You had three drugs in your system!”  DA Babin had to work hard to try and reel in those words by Webre!

1:03:00 – DA Babin encourages press coverage as a means to, “get them to start talking.”

1:05:10 – DA Babin laments bad press his office obtains for dismissing rape case when victim refuses to show up in court, subpoena notwithstanding.  He says, “That’s the shit the media don’t put out there.”  We just put it out there for you, DA Babin!

1:06:31 – DA Babin reiterates that, “I thought we had PC (probable cause).  My Assistant DA thought there was PC, but the Grand Jury don’t like it!”

1:08:38 – Sheriff Webre says, “All the females that I’ve had conversations with about this thing………..’Get the f— off me you stupid son bitch’……Almost to the person, and you can guarantee that’s what both Grand Juries thought!”

1:11:27 – After Delatte explains precisely why she reacted the way she did, Webre says, “I’m going to continue to play Devil’s advocate.” [1:12:17 mark].

1:15:50 – DA Babin admits that the last couple of cases he sent to Landry, that Landry said, “Go pound sand, but they weren’t good cases.”  How is THIS one good when Babin previously said, “I don’t have crap?”

1:19:08 – Webre indicates that, despite Babin’s pessimism on AG Jeff Landry looking at the case, Webre indicates, “He’ll say ‘yes.'”

Like we said, it’s a rare opportunity to take a look under the hood and see how all these negotiations play out, especially when it involves a politically-connected defendant.

In segment three of this series, we’ll examine yet more tape-recorded conversations that we believe our subscribers and casual site visitors will find most intriguing.