Skip To Main Content
Leslie Turk on Muck Rack

Leslie Turk

Verified
Lafayette
As seen in: The Current Media, The New York Times, Flipboard, Yahoo, The Acadiana Advocate, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), NewsBreak, KPXJ 21/KTBS 3 (Shreveport, LA), The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA), KATC-TV (Lafayette, LA), WWNO-FM (New Orleans, LA) and
Lead investigative reporter for The Current. (AKA: Pajama-wearing basement blogger who likes to "pry & pry.")
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Leslie

Contact Leslie, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

School board tensions hit peak over benefits

|
By Leslie Turk Verified
| The Current Media Verified
In another contentious insurance debate, the Lafayette Parish School Board narrowly voted to keep its voluntary benefits administrator, dealing a blow to board member Jeremy Hidalgo, who had pushed for a competitive bidding process for the lucrative contract.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Former M-P Guillory’s malfeasance trial reset for November

|
By Leslie Turk Verified
| The Current Media Verified
Former Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s trial on malfeasance charges has been reset for Nov. 16, KADN reports. A St. Martin Parish grand jury indicted Guillory in February on four counts of malfeasance in office in connection with a covert drainage operation that cleared spoil banks along the Vermilion River.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Second former LRCA employee arrested in alleged payroll fraud scheme

|
By Leslie Turk Verified
| The Current Media Verified
Two former Lafayette Renaissance Charter Academy employees, Shameka Bazile and Marva Williams, were arrested late Monday on charges of public payroll fraud, theft and forgery in connection with the alleged misuse of tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds. Bazile’s attorney, Kevin Stockstill, confirmed to The Current Monday night that his client turned herself in. Records from the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center show Bazile’s bail was set at $15,000 and Williams’ at $4,500.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (9) Issue with article?
See all 255 licensed articles (261 Total)