Without Gravel , the investigation continued during 1966 under the supervision of Sargent Pitcher , then the district attorney of East Baton Rouge Parish . It was revealed that Downs had been in communication with the New Orleans crime family boss Carlos Marcello regarding a real estate transaction in Alexandria , but no allegation of wrongdoing came forth on the matter . Pitcher also found no link between Marcello and another former McKeithen aide , Aubrey W. Young , other than two telephone calls to which Young admitted , one of which concerned what became the Louisiana Superdome . Despite Pitcher 's report , McKeithen still described Downs as " the only Mafia link I know of in my administration . " In 1968 , Downs joined the presidential campaign of American Independent Party nominee George Wallace , who after having withdrawn from consideration in 1964 , hoped without success to deny Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey an electoral college majority . McKeithen , however , had supported Humphrey at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago . Afterwards , Downs returned to the McKeithen administration as executive counsel , the Mafia link apparently overlooked or discounted . In 1969 , McKeithen named Downs director of public works . Downs was suspended by Governor McKeithen as the public works director early in 1972 after indictment by a federal grand jury for taking bribes from the Shoup Voting Machine Company Downs soon resigned from the administration , and the Shoup company was also indicted in the case . In the 1973 trial , the case against Downs resulted in a hung jury
1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
C. H. "Sammy" Downs