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Attorney Peter Strasser, had to be recused.
While in private practice at Chaffe McCall, U.S. Attorney Strasser represented Joseph Georgusis, who has hired a long list of former law enforcement officers and lawyers to conduct an investigation into his son's 2005 death. A prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office said that Strasser directed him to investigate the matter; Strasser and his top aide, Michael Simpson, say Strasser has been recused from the case from the get-go and that Simpson has made all decisions about the case.
Strasser has generally declined to comment on the matter, citing the secrecy of grand jury investigations, but he has emphasized that he has had no involvement in the Georgusis matter. He said last week that he had left all the decisions to Michael Simpson, his first assistant.
Of all the lawmen with a motive to do Joe Georgusis a favor, only one did not need his help to get elected.
The case itself is unusual for a few reasons, however: The death occurred 14 years ago, and it has never been classified as a homicide. In 2005, the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office, led by Frank Minyard, ruled it a drug overdose. Nonetheless, it has prompted investigations by various law enforcement agencies.
Legal experts say they would be troubled to learn Strasser was indeed involved in the case’s revival.
Davis’ appeals are ongoing. McMahon also prosecuted Henry Dillon III, a former assistant city attorney who was sentenced to life in 2006 for raping multiple young women he lured to his office on Canal Street by offering to help resolve their cases.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, McMahon arrived in New Orleans to study at Loyola University Law School. Then-Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick’s office hired him as a prosecutor in 1982. He worked there until he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in November 1987.
In that interview, he said that Strasser personally had assigned him the job of leading a grand jury investigation into the 2005 death of Joey Georgusis, the 23-year-old son of Joe Georgusis, a wealthy former client of Strasser from Strasser’s time as a lawyer in private practice.
Regardless of their veracity, McMahon’s unsanctioned remarks clearly violated Justice Department regulations barring employees from giving interviews to the news media without permission.
He secured a guilty plea from the notorious New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who received a seven-year prison sentence for illegally possessing a gun following a 2015 arrest in New Orleans. At the time, Durst was the subject of an HBO documentary series that featured his purported “hot mic” confession to a series of murders. He is awaiting a trial for one of the murders in Los Angeles.
Gordon Russell. A veteran federal prosecutor who handled some of the region’s most high-profile cases over the last three decades abruptly retired earlier this month, saying his boss, U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser, had made his life unpleasant after he contradicted Strasser’s characterization of a controversial grand jury investigation.
In a lengthy interview he granted following his Dec. 12 retirement, longtime Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael McMahon conceded that he had violated Department of Justice policy when he spoke to this newspaper in October.