In an arrangement made possible through personal friendship, Municipal Court’s chief judge gave Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman’s wife a no-bid, exclusive deal to counsel low-level drug offenders, earning her more than $28,000 over the past 10 months for the part-time work.
Renee Gusman Renee Gusman owns a counseling company called Bright Side LLC, and she has counseled every person who went through a year-old diversion program. Her online professional profile, verified by the magazine Psychology Today, says she has been a counselor for more than 20 years, and lists 23 counseling specialties and issues. Drug counseling is not among them.
