A couple of new developments in the ongoing saga of the indictment of the Iberia Parish clerk of court and his firing of the son of the parish assessor—well, new insofar as LouisianaVoice just learned of them:
Yesterday’s post noted that Assessor Ricky Huval’s son, Ryan Huval was recently fired by Clerk of Court Michael Thibodeaux and that Thibodeaux’s problems started soon thereafter when District Attorney M. Bofill Duhé indicted him on 14 criminal counts stemming from a 20-month-old state audit of Thibodeaux’s office.
Today, we learn of two other interesting facts that cast a dark cloud over both Ricky Huval and DA M. Bofill Duhé (I love the way attorneys, impressed at their exaggerated self-importance, love to employ their first initial, middle name, last name and more often than not, a Roman numeral–except Huval doesn’t have a Roman numeral in his pedigree).
First of all, we learn that Huval’s daughter, Rachael Huval is employed by…..(wait for it)…District Attorney M. Bofill Duhé (Hmm, no conflict there), and
Following the firing of Ryan Huval by Thibodeaux, daddy Ricky Huval promptly increased Thibodeaux’s assessment on his home by a whopping $52,000.
But that’s nothing. The poor schmuck who was hired to replace Ryan Huval had his property assessment increased by $92,000 more than the price he paid for his house only two months earlier.
And all this time, I thought it was only Sheriff Louis Ackal who flexed his political muscle in Iberia Parish.
It’s been suggested by a couple of my friends that I reconsider my plans for a weekend getaway to Iberia Parish’s beautiful Avery Island.
Louisiana Voice 
Thank you so much for highlighting Iberia Pariah to world
It seems there is no end to this story and it’s a shame in such a beautiful parish and ostensibly nice town the political atmosphere is what it is. On the other hand, I live in a beautiful parish near a nice town and, if you’ve read the Baton Rouge paper the last couple of days, it’s obvious things go on behind the scenes here in which we should not take a lot of pride.
I look forward to Tom’s forthcoming book focusing on sheriffs across the state. Maybe it will allow us to all put our individual circumstances in perspective and make more informed decisions when we next have the opportunity to vote. If all local politics are dirty, some must be dirtier than others.
The question you should be asking is who initiated the legislative audit. You will find that it was none other than Ricky Huval and the timing coincided when his little boy, Ryan, was fired.