As reported by LouisianaVoice earlier this week, LSU System General Counsel has resigned, reportedly under pressure, as the chief legal advisor to the state’s flagship university’s administration.
Dr. Roxanne Townsend, CEO of the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans, was relieved of her position and reassigned by Dr. Frank Opelka, head of LSU’s health care system on Wednesday of this week.
Lamonica is the fourth LSU official to resign, be fired or reassigned by the Jindal administration in less than six months. System President John Lombardi was fired in April by the LSU Board of Supervisors acting on directions from the governor and on Aug. 26, Dr. Fred Cerise, head of the LSU health care system similarly dismissed and replaced by Opelka late last month.
Reached at home Wednesday, Lamonica acknowledged that he had resigned. When asked if he was asked or pressured into resigning, he declined to comment further except to say that he is remaining on as a tenured professor at the LSU Law Center.
Lamonica was appointed as United States attorney for the middle district of Louisiana in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan. President Bill Clinton appointed L.J. Hymel to replace him in 1994. Prior to that, Lamonica worked as executive counsel to Gov. Dave Treen.
He becomes the latest in a growing line of rank and file state employees, administrators, agency directors and cabinet secretaries who Jindal has either fired outright or, in the case of two legislators, demoted from committee assignments.
Louisiana Voice 
Yeah, he “resigned.” Since people are catching on to li’l bobby’s firings, they have to pressure people to say they resigned.
He may very well have decided to resign. The money quote in this morning’s Advocate from Lamonica’s resignation letter:
“I wish you the best in protecting the integrity and quality of the LSU System and its institutions.”
Since the integrity of the LSU System has already been compromised with the stacking of the Board with Jindal political cronies, and LSU medical institutions are being sold off to the highest bidders, critics being terminated left and right, I would have to say that this purge of high-level administrators presages an unprecedented period of corruption: kickbacks to members of Boards, cost overruns on projects that will enrich contractors at the expense of taxpayers, bribes in the form of quid pro quo political job appointments in exchange for political contributions, etc. Louisiana 1930s deja vu.
The LSU medical infrastructure may just be the beginning. Wait ’til you see what they plan for the Colleges of Arts & Sciences.
So does this mean we can expect Liz Murrill as the next general counsel for LSU System?
Well he’s a lawyer so who is stupid enough to just “outright” fire him? Avoid the liabilities and offer “resignation.” ha ha