BATON ROUGE — Attorneys for Superintendent LaMont Cole are asking that the remaining charges against Cole be dropped after a special jury issued a superseding indictment earlier this month.
Former East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor Pro Tempore LaMont Cole turned himself in to the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in early August, one day after he was indicted by a grand jury on corruption charges, including allegedly accepting more than $40,000 in cash and gifts in the form of bribes.
The initial indictment charged Cole, the current East Baton Rouge Parish School System superintendent, with two counts each of conspiracy to commit public bribery and money laundering between $20,000 and $100,000, as well as one count of malfeasance in office. Investigators alleged Cole committed the crime between Aug. 10, 2022, and Dec. 31, 2024…