Robert Evans

Sexting incident between parish president, teen draws federal scrutiny and local demands for resignation

By Christopher Knoll | Sunday, Oct 30, 2016 @ 4:47pm

HARAHAN — Ever since the allegations of sexting a 17-year-old boy in 2015 surfaced in early October, Jefferson Parish President Mike Yenni has been a no-show at a council meeting, declined to answer questions posed by a joint team of investigative reporters from the NOLA defender and WWL-TV. Instead, Yenni has released a one-minute video-recorded message that the defender derisively called a “commercial."