IIRC, Victoria's father was a rather prominent judge in Louisiana. If the old guy is still living, I bet he advised his son to cooperate. Be sure to read the excellent article linked at #4. It has information on the father.
Thanks for linking that article here, abb.
It also mentions that Reggie did do fund-raising for Kerry. Pity the MSM won't think it was a bad thing that campaigns like HRC's and Kerry's are tainted with fund raisers the likes of Rosen and Reggie. Oh, well, the wheels of justice seem to be turning nonetheless.
Yes, daddy was a prominent judge. But he's had his own troubles with the law.
Check out:
http://www.tulanelink.com/tulanelink/reggie_box.htm
In 1992, Reggie was convicted of misapplication of funds of the Acadia Savings & Loan of Crowley, a thrift he founded in 1959 and which failed in 1987. The transactions allegedly contributed to the failure of the Louisiana Bank and Trust, which also failed in 1987. Reggie was board chairman of both institutions at the time. The questionable loans allegedly generated lucrative legal fees for Reggie's law firm, which also served as Acadia's general counsel [20-22].
Initially, Reggie was charged in a 13-count indictment involving the transactions at Acadia S&L. He was acquitted on six counts in his first trial in June 1992. In his second trial three months later, Reggie was convicted on two charges, but U.S. District Judge John Shaw dismissed one of them. In July 1993, Reggie pleaded no-contest to another charge of misapplication of funds, and the remaining four charges were dismissed. Reggie was ably represented by his good friend Camille Gravel [21,22].
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had also sought $40 million from Reggie and others in connection with the failure of the thrift. The debts ultimately were paid by U.S. taxpayers, according to federal officials [23]. For his role in defrauding the savings institution and the public, Reggie faced up to 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines. Nevertheless, Judge Shaw sentenced him to only 120 days of home confinement and a $30,000 fine [21-23]. Reggie was also temporarily suspended from the bar of the state Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court [24-26].
Among the considerations that may have influenced Reggie's relatively light sentence were his close ties to prominent political figures that included Louisiana Governors Earl K. Long, Jimmie Davis, and Edwin W. Edwards, President and Mrs. John Kennedy, President and Mrs. Bill Clinton, and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy [7]. In 1992, Senator Kennedy and Reggie's daughter, Victoria, a Washington, DC attorney specializing in banking law, were married on the 3rd of July at Kennedy's home in McLean, Virginia, both for the second time [27,28].
Following his trials, Reggie continued to be dogged by legal problems, and in 2001 he was the target of a federal lawsuit seeking $819,424 in alleged tax debt arising from an alleged scheme he used to dodge taxes in the 1970s by transferring property to his wife, Doris Boustany Reggie [29]. In 2004, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to dismiss its lawsuit following the receipt of $575,431 from the sale of property held by the Reggie family in New Orleans [30,31].
Apples don't fall very far from the tree.