Jefferson Parish Attorney Tom Wilkinson appears to have violated the parish rules on political activity by employees according to the parish code of ordinances.
The personnel board is looking into political activity violations by one than one employee but will not confirm whether Wilkinson is one of them.
A corporation document from the Secretary of State shows that Wilkinson served as an officer and the director of the Tim Coulon campaign Committee.
He ran it out of his parish office in the Yenni building.
During a January interview with Fox 8, Wilkinson said he "probably should not have been done with that address."
According to the parish's Code of Ordinances, most parish employees are not allowed to be an officer for a candidate's campaign or manage campaign affairs.
"As the parish attorney you would think he would know all of the laws. You would think Mr. Coulon would know all the laws and not asked any employees to get actively involved in his campaign," said Rafael Goyeneche of the Metropolitan Crime Commission.
The code also says the penalty for that violation includes immediate discharge if the employee is unclassified.
Parish Attorney is an unclassified position.
The personnel board is responsible for enforcing the applicable section of the code.
The code says the board must present its findings to the parish council, which is then required to hold a public hearing before the employee can officially be let go.
Goyeneche says Wilkinson's prohibited political activities are an example of a long-standing problem in Jefferson Parish.
"It demonstrates an attitude, a culture of entitlement, a culture that they're in charge and they make up the rules and it doesn't matter what the laws are that are on the books because they don't apply to them, they're above the laws, they're above the rules."
The personnel board and parish council have two years from the violation to take action.
Sources tell FOX 8 that board attorney's are looking into whether Wilkinson has worked on Coulon's campaign within the last two years.
But according to information Ethics Administration website, Wilkinson signed Coulon's Candidate Report in 2009.
The FBI served Wilkinson with a subpoena last month for all of his records pertaining to the Tim Coulon Campaign Committee.
Wilkinson said at the time that he did not have any documents related to the subpoena.
