NEW ORLEANS, LA—WAYNE G. CRESAP, age 62, NUNZIO SALVADORE CUSIMANO, JR., a/k/a Sal Cusimano, age 58, both residents of St. Bernard Parish, and VICTOR J. DAUTERIVE, a/k/a V. J. Dauterive, age 57, a resident of Prairieville, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court tody before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to conspiracy to deprive the citizens of St. Bernard Parish of their right to receive the honest services of Judge WAYNE G. CRESAP, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. According to court documents, CRESAP, an elected judge of the 34th Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Bernard, entered into an illegal agreement with lawyers CUSIMANO and DAUTERIVE, in which CRESAP converted secured bond obligations to unsecured personal surety bonds, thereby allowing the releases of charged individuals on signatures, and without collateral security. The scheme would begin when clients of CUSIMANO or DAUTERIVE would retain them to facilitate the release of an inmate being held on a s...