Ex-tax auditor sentenced
by Bill Lodge - Advocate (excerpt)

The corrupt former city-parish tax auditor was sentenced to four months in a halfway house and two years of probation for taking bribes. The restaurant owner who offered another auditor a weekend trip to Costa Rica and a hotel stay with four prostitutes was sent to prison for 33 months, followed by two years of post-prison federal supervision.

And that closed the books on a six-year investigation of seven men who admitted they defrauded state and local government agencies in East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes of more than $1.2 million in sales and payroll taxes.

Jerome R. Shore, 57, of Baton Rouge, was the city-parish auditor whose career ended after he, five prominent businessmen and the president of an accounting firm were indicted in 2006.