Column: The Rich Irony of the Fall of a Louisiana State Sen. and His Ties to Bill Jefferson
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes public corruption — particularly in Louisiana — has a way of making you snicker — at least for a moment. The sentencing in U.S. District Court in New Orleans of ex-State Sen. Derrick Shepherd on Thursday to 37 months in prison for money laundering made me think of the rich…