Dusty Guidry, the architect of kickback schemes involving the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Lafayette and East Baton Rouge district attorney's offices and others, was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison.

Judge David Joseph of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in Lafayette sentenced Guidry to 48 months on each of three federal charges, to run concurrently, along with any sentence in St. Martin Parish for a December 2021 drug charge.

"Your greed struck at the heart of the criminal justice system" in Lafayette, Baton Rouge and elsewhere in Louisiana, Joseph said before sentencing Guidry. That this was and still is a system ripe for abuse, he added, does not excuse what Guidry did.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Luke Walker as

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