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.

Louisiana Attorney General (and candidate for Governor) Jeff Landry.

Today, Monday, August 28, 2023, we are continuing our series on C. J. Matthews’ quest to become the next Sheriff of Ascension Parish in the October 14, 2023 election.

As folk are aware, we published this “sidebar” on Thursday, August 24, 2023 as a result of much ado being made (at least by blogger Wade Petite) about Matthews’ off-the-cuff comment that incumbent Sheriff Bobby Webre is not a high school graduate.  As will be very briefly stated in the video to follow momentarily, we firmly believe that Webre indeed is not a high school graduate (as irrelevant as that is), and our contention is based on the following three facts:

1.  The Webre campaign has declined to respond to our open invitation to email a photo of the high school graduation certificate.

2.  Of the tens of thousands of hits our Matthews features have obtained, surely one or more of them is from the East Ascension High School Class of 1982 and, if so, it would seem we would obtain correspondence letting us know that Webre did graduate along with those sending us the correspondence.  We have received no such correspondence.

3.  Petite has made no effort whatsoever to substantiate his claim that Webre did graduate as he published that he did.

Now, time to get eyes back focused on the real issue at hand and, for that, here’s Episode five (5) of our series with C. J. Matthews and what he alleges (and to which we wholeheartedly concur) is a complete cover-up of the salacious texting and [(Matthews-asserted) intentionally] botched  sting operation at which Corder actively tried to meet with the juvenile victim ostensibly to subsequently perform oral sex on him, which she asserted he “continuously” asked of her:

August 28, 2023:  Matthews outlines the contents of this February 12, 2019 Attorney General Investigation Memo and also this November 4, 2019 Attorney General “Closeout Memo.”

Entailing the two documents linked above, we also want to add them to our cumulative table of all Corder documents.  Here’s the updated table:

Now, entailing Matthews’ contention that AG Jeff Landry’s Office only reopened the investigation because Advocate reporter David Mitchell was calling the AG’s Office about the matter prior to Mitchell publishing this January 20, 2019 feature about the whole matter, Burns indicated that he’d had a very similar experience wherein Attorney General Jeff Landry went to great lengths to announce his office was opening an investigation entailing this matter, which attracted the strong attention of KLFY (Channel 10 in Lafayette – see their video production on the preceding link).

About 90 days later, Burns received a call from a reliable and very well-trusted source within Landry’s Office who said, “Mr. Burns, I feel someone owes it to you to let you know that we never began any investigation at all of that matter.”  Burns expressed appreciation to his source and told the source that, “You’re not telling me anything I didn’t strongly suspect to be the case, and I merely assumed Landry closed the investigation 10 minutes after the KLFY camera crew left.”

Now, let’s provide some of the material from the AG Investigation Memo at this time:

Corder responded by asking if she was into older men….. Corder told her he had a wife but she wasn’t doing the things he wanted done sexually. Corder then asked <redacted> if she would perform oral sex on him.

<redacted> advised over the next few days Corder would text her and continuously asked for oral sex…

Corder texted her and asked for a picture of her buttocks or vagina. <redacted> told Corder that she didn’t want to do that and he responded with if you send me a picture of yours, I will send one of myself.

<redacted> stated that she sent Corder a picture of her breast and waited for Corder to respond with a picture. When he didn’t <redacted> asked Corder why did he respond (sic) with the picture of his penis like she asked and Corder responded by stating that he’s a police officer and he would get into trouble.

<redacted> advised she knew something was strange because she has had many contacts with police officers and no police officer has ever asked her for her number much less sexual activity.  <redacted> advised after a few days of chatting with Corder she decided to stop the conversations between them because she did not want the kind of relationship that Corder wanted with Corder.

As Burns indicated on the above video near its end, it’s up to Ascension Parish voters, but the facts have been laid pretty bare by Matthews entailing State Representative candidate (and former Ascension Parish Sheriff) Jeff Wiley.

The same can be said for incumbent Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre, who is running for re-election, and last but not least about Gubernatorial candidate (and current AG) Jeff Landry.

While we hate to admit this, barring some huge unforeseen development, Landry will prevail in his quest for Governor, and that will be his third straight statewide election in which he prevails without having to engage in the first debate.  Yes, we are predicting that he will decline to participate in this Statewide debate of next Thursday, September 7, 2023.

In all fairness, we should note that, in his 2015 campaign for AG, Landry was more than willing to debate incumbent James D. “Buddy” Caldwell; however, Caldwell, believing Landry could not beat him in the race for AG, told the Landry camp there would be no debate.  In the 2019 race for AG, Landry had no meaningful competition, so no debate took place in that race either.

We further predict that Landry will decline any future debate invitations (to include a debate in a Landry-Wilson runoff — if there even is a runoff with the latest poll showing Landry with a staggering 20 percent of the black vote) because he’s been the “ordained candidate” for Governor by the Louisiana GOP “big wigs” for a long time.  Further, his top advisor (whom Burns knows well) is extremely shrewd.  Actually, Burns would much prefer the advisor as Governor and, one day, that may be a distinct possibility in our minds.  Knowing he will hold a key position in the near-certain upcoming Landry administration is at least some measure of comfort and solace in what otherwise is an upcoming development (a Landry landslide)  that certainly gives us pause for concern.

He himself (the advisor) is a champion debater, but he knows full well that  Landry is anything but, and we have no doubt he’s advised Landry that, unless and until another candidate appears to be nipping at Landry’s heels (which now appears about as likely as us purchasing a winning Powerball ticket in Wednesday’s drawing), Landry won’t be participating in any debates.

While that’s a sad development, we have to admit that it’s a near-sure-fire way for Landry to become Louisiana’s next Governor and there’s nothing but downside for him in appearing on any debate stage.

As stated in the above video, hang tight for Episode six (6) of the Matthews series.  It will focus on our good friends over at Louisiana State Police and how they reacted to Matthews’ extensive findings and presentations to them!  Normally, it would be a huge feature, but when anyone considers the abject disastrous  train wreck that is LSP, as we said on the video above, it’s about par for the course at LSP!

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