Ms. Kimberly Williamson Butler

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  laleadership.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/9/2007    Last Visited: 3/13/2007  

  It's a complete joke: several judges were caught vacationing on taxpayer money, Clerk of Court Kimberly Williamson Butler was sent to jail, and District Attorney Eddie Jordan was convicted of racial profiling.

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  www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2006-02-14/news_scut. - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/14/2006    Last Visited: 9/6/2007  

  By late last week, the city was still roughly 400 local commissioners short of the 1,600 needed, according to Joe Broussard, a top aide to Criminal Clerk of Court Kimberly Williamson Butler.
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  Butler, the local chapter of the League of Women voters and the activist group ACORN have been urging New Orleanians to take charge of their own elections as commissioners.Registered voters and 17-year-old high school seniors are being sought.

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  Published on: 5/1/2005    Last Visited: 9/15/2007  

  DANA ROSE AUGILLARD AND ALVIN J. BOUDREAUX VERSUS SHAWN MARCELL BARNEY AND KIMBERLY WILLIAMSON BUTLER, CLERK OF CRIMINAL COURT OF ORLEANS PARISH

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  Last Visited: 9/24/2008  

  STATE OF LOUISIANA, AND KIMBERLY WILLIAMSON BUTLER, CLERK OF CRIMINALCOURT OF ORLEANS PARISH (Parish of Orleans)For the above-stated reasons, judgment is rendered in favor of plaintiff and against defendants on plaintiff's petition objecting tocandidacy, declaring Cedric Richmond ineligible as a candidate for the office of Councilmember District "D" for the City of New Orleans,and he is accordingly disqualified.

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  Published on: 9/7/2007    Last Visited: 10/25/2007  

  In the New Orleans Council-at-large race, one of the candidates is Kimberly Williamson Butler, the former Clerk of Court who was jailed for disobeying a judge's order and upon release compared herself to Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  Mandela spent 27 years in jail, Butler spent one day quite an apt comparison!
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  Joining Butler in the New Orleans race is Dyan "Mama D" French, who is known for her notorious outbursts in council meetings and her frequent charges of racism.If this publicity seeking rabble-rouser, who is an expert at disrupting meetings, she gets elected, it will be pandemonium in the New Orleans City Council.

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  Published on: 3/1/2007    Last Visited: 7/1/2007  

  The report, from the Office of the Legislative Auditor, included some of the same accusations against the former clerk, Kimberly Williamson Butler, as those cited earlier by the New Orleans district attorney, including that she misused public money and signed an $8 million contract for cleanup work after Hurricane Katrina that was never done.
  
  These were among the accusations in the auditor's report:
  
  ¶Ms. Butler signed the $8 million contract with BioDefense America, a little-known Florida company, for cleanup of flood damage, but no evidence exists that work was performed.The contract provided for an initial payment to BioDefense of $200,000 or $350,000; separate documents signed by Ms. Butler do not agree on the amount.BioDefense abandoned the project, and another company was hired last year for $4.3 million.
  
  ¶Ms. Butler used $364,665 in evidence-room money without the required approval from the city, which legally controls such money.
  
  ¶She failed to keep records when she and her employees used her office's credit cards.For 279 purchases, totaling $41,804, Ms. Butler's office had receipts or documentation for 75, or fewer than a third.
  
  Ms. Butler, who did not run for re-election as clerk, dropped out of public life after a failed campaign for mayor last year.
  
  She did not return a message seeking comment.
  
  Her lawyer, John Reed, noted that previous criminal inquiries into Ms. Butler's actions had come to nothing.
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  Mr. Reed also said none of the accusations indicated that Ms. Butler had used her office to enrich herself.

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  www.vinepublication.com/articles/article/2855098/68658. - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/6/2006    Last Visited: 7/19/2007  

  In a kind of carnivalesque charade that seemed like an extension of Mardi Gras, arrest warrants were issued, the city's top judges, furious, made threats, but still the clerk, Kimberly Williamson Butler, refused to appear.That she is also the city's top elections official in a week when candidates were filing to run for mayor only made the disappearance more breathtaking.
  
  Ms. Butler had been asked by the judges to relinquish some of her responsibilities in applying for federal money to clean up the flood-damaged courthouse.She refused, and last Friday the judges of the criminal court issued a warrant for her arrest.

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  Published on: 5/20/2007    Last Visited: 5/20/2007  

  About 40 stores, including Adidas and Clarks/Bostonian, are to debut this summer at the complex, which currently has about 50 tenants, says spokeswoman Kim Butler.
  
  "Atlantic City is a shopping destination," she declares.

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  www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2006-02-28/news_scut. - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/28/2006    Last Visited: 9/6/2007  

  First elected to the state House of Representatives in 1983, Morrell will oppose incumbent Clerk Kimberly Williamson Butler and several other challengers, including attorney Nick Varrecchio. -- DuBos

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  Published on: 3/6/2007    Last Visited: 3/6/2007  

  It says Butler violated procedure on cash Tuesday, March 06, 2007By Laura Maggi
  
  A legislative audit released Monday alleges the former New Orleans clerk of criminal court improperly deposited evidence money into a bank account for her office's use, did not keep required receipts for many credit card purchases and possibly violated the state Constitution by using government money to create a community outreach program.
  
  Criminal investigations into similar accusations against Kimberly Williamson Butler were closed last fall with no charges against her.
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  But Butler never got the necessary permission from Mayor Ray Nagin to take the money and use it to run her office, the report concluded.
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  Reed added that Butler followed the traditional practices of the office in depositing the evidence cash from old cases.
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  Butler was elected clerk in the fall of 2003 after being forced out of her position as the mayor's top aide.

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