George Arceneaux Jr. (May 17, 1928 – April 6, 1993) was a

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of the

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Education and career

Born in

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, Louisiana, Arceneaux received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1949. He received a Juris Doctor from the Washington College of Law at American University in 1957. He was in the United States Army from 1951 to 1952. He was an administrative assistant to United States Senator Allen J. Ellender from 1952 to 1960. He was in private practice of law in Houma, Louisiana, Houma, Louisiana from 1960 to 1979.

Federal judicial service

Arceneaux was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on June 12, 1979, to the

, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 25, 1979, and received his commission on September 26, 1979. His service was terminated on April 6, 1993, due to his death in Houma.

Notable case

In 1991, Arceneaux delivered the maximum sentence allowed on the conviction for multiple felonies of former Insurance commissioner, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Doug Green (Louisiana politician), Douglas D. "Doug" Green of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge. Judge Arceneaux ordered Green to serve twenty-eight concurrent five-year terms on conviction of Conspiracy (crime), conspiracy and mail fraud and two concurrent 20-year terms for money laundering, laundering campaign loans. A jury determined that Green conspired with John and Naaman Eicher of the Champion Insurance Company, his largest campaign donors, to keep the failing company intact, a decision which cost Louisiana taxpayers $150 million. According to prosecution evidence, Green received $2.7 million in bribery, bribes. Green ultimately served about half of his total 25-year sentence in the Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola, federal prison in Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola, Florida.

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