Given our political system in LA, an AG appointed by the governor would be predictably a sort of political police and serve to create a fascist state. Election is probably better, but when the culture itself is corrupt, not much better. Just in his power to dispense state legal work to law firms, the AG wields tremendous power in the legal community beyond the direct powers delegated to him. Why do you think the state sheriffs association has endorsed him for reelection already, dispite his embarassing incompetence? Because of the power of incumbency.

Why was he willing to go after a physician without even the appearance of fairness and not even bother to pick a prey on the fringe of the herd, instead going after a target that he knew would enrage the docs? Could it be because he beefed up the Medicaid fraud unit, and, given the imprecision of coding rules, they all know that they can be brought down for a minor mistake and dare not get politically involved? Don’t laugh. I have seen it happen in Louisiana: the investigations for a few diverted scripts starting days after a foray into the political arena.

Docs need to give every spare dime to his opponents and let him know they will not be rolled this way–but due to campaign finance disclosure rules and the tradition of using office not just for rewarding friends but for punishing enemies, I doubt that they will.

“To an outraged public, Mr. Foti’s motivations in the conduct of these arrests are clear: create controversy, make “news” and declare these caregivers as common, calculating killers. To patients, peers and people who know them best, nothing could be further from the truth.”

The solution is to simply change this ridiculous system where people can vote for the AG, judges etc.

Where was Foti and his assitants when the NOPD was confiscated guns from otherwise helpless old people living in lawless chaos, when some elements of the NOPD were running as rampant as street gangs, when the authorities were forcibly preventing rescue of people, when his old bud running the NOPD was cracking and spreading hysterical rumors? When inmates were drowning in the hellhole of Orleans Parish Prison that he built his carear creating. He is the chief law enforcement figure in the state. Where was he? I have never heard an answer to that.

He wants to do some good? He needs to help address the complete collapse of the justice system in New Orleans where the murder rate is skyrocketing to astronomical levels but the district attorney’s office has virtually lost all compacity to prosecute or even bring charges.

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