Given the recent ‘security breach’ at 500 Poydras Street, a number of scoundrels might be at risk if I DO become homicidal.
Former attorney Ashton O’Dwyer Jr., addressing the Bankruptcy Court in New Orleans and apparently referring to the incident at Sen. Landrieu’s office.
Folks may remember AROD, who long ago got himself banned on Folo and then this Spring managed to be the first person banned on this blog (a distinction he shares with one other person). In September, I posted about a set-to between O’Dwyer and the federal judges in New Orleans, noting that he had been banned from the courthouse there (this post resulted in a bizarre anti-Semitic threat to sue me…). Anyhow, it appears that Mr. O’Dwyer’s latest blast at the federal bench (quoted above) has resulted in a home visit from the authorities. The Times Picayune reports:
FBI arrested O’Dwyer in the 6000 block of St. Charles Avenue and found a loaded handgun in his possession at the time, said Sheila Thorne, FBI spokeswoman.
Officials held him after his initial appearance Saturday, and a detention hearing is scheduled Monday.
O’Dwyer’s reportedly aggressive verbal attacks on U.S. district judges Stanwood Duval and Ivan L.R. Lemelle during a lawsuit, combined with his failure to pay penalties levied as a result of contempt citations, led to being him banned from federal court. He also has been indefinitely suspended from practicing law in state court by the Louisiana Supreme Court, according to a March 30 order by that court.
O’Dwyer gained notoriety after refusing to evacuate for Hurricane Katrina and boasted of living a “Lord of the Flies/Robinson Crusoe” existence at his home on St. Charles Avenue.
In a relatively short span after Katrina hit Aug. 29, 2005, O’Dwyer appeared on ABC News’ Good Morning America, CNN and the CBS Early Show. He was featured in articles published by The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal, the Houston Chronicle and USA Today, which quoted him as saying, “This is the highest ground in the city. That’s why the rich white men who built this city put their homes here.”
He showed reporters his weapons – a pistol and a shotgun – and declared his willingness to use them. At one point, according to The Houston Chronicle, he announced “that I have seceded from the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana and the United States.
“I am now an independent nation,” he said.
h/t several alert readers.
He is the guy that had an interest in the riparian land at the ‘battures’ where quasi-legal gambling operated near the boundary of Jefferson Parish and a ferry landing. A maze of city ordinance, civil law, custom, public favor, and payoffs protected the O’Dwyer’s concessions on the river for generations until lately. He was injured by recent court decisions and hard drinking. Ask anyone at Carrollton about the battures and they will point to the river where certain property rights or possessions r yet enjoying the river.