Excerpt from a newspaper article Billy Broussard points to in backing his strong contention that acts of corruption and collusion were rampant in the former Gravity District 8 of Ward 1 of Calcasieu Parish. Broussard has long maintained that fraud and collusion by governmental officials and/or their contractors cost him in excess of $1 million in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.
After we published this February 25, 2026 feature in which we stated that taxpayers are owed more of an explanation than a “late Loudermill letter” regarding LSP Lt. James Jefferson III given that taxpayers expended $205,000 on him in 2024, Billy Broussard made the following comment to which we replied and reproduce now:
- Billy Broussard says:
I am publicly requesting that C. J. Matthews, former Ascension Parish Sheriff Captain, do a Sound Off with me explaining how law-enforcement is to handle newly discovered evidence in a case and how do you get that newly discovered evidence in a supplement report.
Hopefully, he will grant my request and thank you in advance!
- Robert Burns says:
Billy, I am very happy to report that Mr. Matthews has granted your request, and I look very forward to having you both on Sound Off at the same time very soon!
As indicated above, Matthews granted Broussard’s request, and here is the Sound Off Louisiana interview we recently conducted with both gentlemen as our guests:
Broussard and Matthews discuss the interactions of law enforcement and DA offices.
In addition to that interview, Broussard provided us with a very intriguing 30-minute conversation he had with LSP Col. Robert Hodges. Broussard secretly recorded the conversation, and he asked that we present a four-minute segment of that conversation.
We are going to grant Broussard’s request; however, since we believe the entirety of the conversation is quite intriguing, we are also going to provide the entire recording which Broussard provided to us.
After Broussard provided us the recording and strongly emphasized that four-minute segment, he stated: “(Based on) the dialogue I had with him (Hodges) and other conversations, I feel that he’s a fine gentleman, but State Police is controlled by District Attorneys.”
Importantly, Broussard added: “The crimes here are that certain individuals falsified documents to GOHSEP and FEMA to obtain money not to pay me but to enrich themselves.”
With those quotes by Broussard dispensed with, here is that four-minute segment of Broussard’s dialogue with Hodges:
Four-minute segment of audio file which Broussard contends that, in concert with other conversations with Hodges, “LSP is controlled by District Attorneys.”
Again, we want the entirety of the 30-minute audio file beyond just the four-minute segment Broussard requested for this feature. Here is that full 30-minute audio file:
Entirety of 30-minute audio file of dialogue between LSP Col. Robert Hodges and Billy Broussard. The audio is worth the listen if for no other reason for the occasional references Broussard makes regarding his cousin, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.
Other documents which Broussard requested to accompany this feature:
— Email correspondence between Gavin Abshire of River West Enterprises, Inc. and from Calcasieu Parish Assistant DA Robert Kleinschmidt:
— This 3/16/16 chronology document.
— This 5/20/09 email from Kelly Fontenot stating a need to have, “those GPS sites go away.”
— This original LSP Case Report by former LSP Trooper Michael Hebert.
— The following letter from former Sen. Fred Mills to former Assistant AG Wilbur “Bill” Stiles:
The following letter from Stiles in response to Mills:
Broussard is very emphatic that he desperately needs that original LSP Incident Report to be supplemented with the facts borne out by all of the documentation he has obtained since that original report was drafted.
Broussard contends, and the documentary evidence which he has obtained and we have published seems nothing short of overwhelming from our vantage point, that the documentation substantiates his claim that he was unequivocally cheated out of over $1 million by and through the actions of certain governmental officials.
Hodges is a scumbag. Like the governor who appointed him.