The former CEO of Louisiana’s state-backed insurance company wants the criminal case against him moved from East Baton Rouge to Jefferson Parish.
Terry Lisotta’s lawyer, David Courcelle, said the fraud case should be in Jefferson Parish because that’s the home base of Lisotta’s former company, Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The state Attorney General’s office wants the case to remain in Baton Rouge.
Lisotta, CEO of Citizens until April 2007, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of theft. Lisotta is accused of improperly spending about $30,000 of the firm’s money.
Lisotta appeared in a Baton Rouge courtroom briefly March 25 for a procedural hearing. In response to a motion from Courcelle, Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell agreed to give Courcelle all evidence – canceled checks, invoices, expense vouchers – that his investigators have compiled against Lisotta.
State District Judge Richard Anderson set Lisotta’s next court appearance for May 19, to hear arguments over the venue and other motions.
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