The charges on violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act were also directed against Betty Jefferson, Mose Jefferson, and Mose Jefferson's companion Renée Gill Pratt.
Brenda Jefferson Foster (born 1955 - May 17, 2010 Lake Providence, Louisiana) was a witness for the prosecution in the 2008-2009 trials of her older siblings Betty Jefferson and Mose Jefferson, Betty Jefferson's daughter Angela Coleman, and Mose Jefferson's companion former City Councilwoman Renée Gill Pratt.
During 2009, Lemelle was assigned the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case alleged against Renée Gill Pratt and Mose Jefferson, brother of former U.S. representative William J. Jefferson, who simultaneously stood indicted on sixteen counts in federal court in Virginia.
Amid astonishment over the appropriateness and timing of the appointment—in that all Louisiana public universities were facing steep budget cuts and suggestions were circulating that SUNO should be merged with the neighboring University of New Orleans—Gill Pratt, with the urging of SUNO chancellor Victor Ukpolo, went on a leave of absence without pay.
Renée Fleming | Pratt Institute | Vince Gill | Pratt & Whitney | Renée Zellweger | Hugo Pratt | Eric Gill | Johnny Gill | Gugu Gill | Gill-man | Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Amrinder Gill | Turner Gill | Steve Gill | Renee Stout | Renée Gill Pratt | Pete Gill | Orson Pratt | Charles Pratt | A. Miles Pratt | Vaughan Pratt | Tim Pratt | Tim Gill | Renée of Bourbon | Renée DuMonde | Pratt Street | Parley P. Pratt | Param Gill | Kendall Gill | John Pratt-Johnson |