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August 31, 2022

Brief: Get caught up on

Guillory’s mounting
controversies
by Leslie Turk

Mayor-President Josh Guillory returned from rehab — and to growing scrutiny — in mid-August.
Photo by Travis Gauthier

The gist: Scrutiny of the mayor-president may be turning into big-time

investigations. Here’s a rundown of headlines to catch you up.

Patience can still be a powerful tool for reporters. The Daily Advertiser’s Andrew
Capps had the foresight to gather up a list of attorney-turned-M-P Josh Guillory’s
existing cases after his election — and the patience to sit on the list for 2.5 years
before finding any news value in it. 

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33 cases. The Advertiser reported last week that dozens of the mayor-president’s
former cases are no longer publicly accessible, in all probability due to
expungements. The nature of expungements — permanent removal from court
records — makes it difficult to know how many Guillory personally handled. The
Current first reported the mayor-president’s expungement work, likely done while
in rehab.  

That [Capps] off a month of headlines for the embattled mayor-president, with
much of the news centered on his efforts to make more money:

Aug. 10 – LCG launched an infrastructure boom; Josh Guillory and his wife
launched an equipment company (The Current)

Aug. 15 – Mayor-President Josh Guillory, back at work, defends decision to lead

LCG while in rehab (The Acadiana Advocate)

Aug. 17 – Josh Guillory turns to side hustles for more income (The Current)

Aug. 22 – Lafayette mayor has practiced law, likely even from rehab. Failed to
disclose new practice (The Daily Advertiser)

Aug. 24 – FBI said to be probing LCG drainage contractor, potential

relationship with Mayor-President Josh Guillory (The Current)

Aug. 29 – City Council may take mayor-president up on suggestion to conduct

special audit, investigation of drainage contracts (The Acadiana Advocate)

Aug. 29 – Josh Guillory expungements: 33 of Lafayette mayor’s cases removed

since taking office (The Daily Advertiser)

What to watch for: Whether LCG will be left holding the bag (millions of dollars at
stake) as a battle brews between the state’s Office of Facility Planning and Control
and the Guillory administration over capital outlay funding for its drainage projects.
Hint: LCG doesn’t own some of the land where the work was done, as is required by
its cooperative endeavor agreement with the state.

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 Budget 2022, Drainage, Flooding, Josh Guillory, Lafayette, Louisiana, The Daily Advertiser

ABOUT LESLIE TURK

A founding editor of both The Independent and ABiz and senior editor at The Times of Acadiana
in the 1990s, Leslie Turk is an award-winning investigative reporter who has worked in the
newspaper business in Lafayette for more than three decades. In 2007 and again in 2017 she
received the Louisiana Press Association's highest honor, the Freedom of Information Award. Her
work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Acadiana Advocate, The Daily Advertiser,
Baton Rouge Business Report, Louisiana Illuminator and Gambit. Contact her at (337) 207-4312
or leslie@thecurrentla.com.

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