''Life Magazine'' reported that Young had made fifty to sixty telephone calls from the governor's office to Carlos Marcello in 1966 and 1967, but East Baton Rouge District Attorney Sargent Pitcher conducted a probe and could not substantiate the magazine's claim. Young admitted to having received two calls from Marcello, one dealing with what became the now Mercedes-Benz Superdome and another in regard to Dalton Smith's attempt to bribe Edward Grady Partin. Pitcher said that the telephone used was actually that of Crawford Hugh "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985), a former state senator from Rapides Parish who was then Governor McKeithen's unpaid administrative assistant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Garrison%20News%20Clippings/1968/68-07/68-07-32.pdf|author=[[Bill Lynch]]|title="B. R. Probe Finds No Proof of Marcella-Young Calls"|publisher=''New Orleans States-Item''|date=July 16, 1968|accessdate=June 27, 2013}}</ref> Another source alleges that Young was "tied" to Marcello.<ref name=novel>{{cite web|url=http://www.combat-diaries.co.uk/dairy18/diary18chapter_5.htm|title=A Short Encyclopedia of Modern Visionaries: Gordon Novel section|publisher=combat-diaries.co.uk|accessdate=April 28, 2010}}</ref>
In 1981, Young and four others, including Marcello, New Orleans attorney Vincent A. Mannello, [[lobbyist]] I. Irving Davidson, and [[Charles E. Roemer, II]], a former aide to Governor [[Edwin Edwards]], McKeithen 's successor, and the father of Edwards' second successor, [[Buddy Roemer|Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III]], were charged in U.S. District Court in New Orleans with [[conspiracy]], racketeering, and mail and wire fraud in a scheme to bribe state officials to give the five men multi-million dollar [[insurance]] contracts.<ref>''[[The New York Times]],'' March 31, 1981, p. 16.</ref> The charges were the result of a [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] probe known as BriLab.<ref>''The New York Times,'' April 22, 1981, p. 17.</ref><ref>[[Bill W. Wayne "Bill" Clayton]], a former Texas state representative and state House Speaker, was caught up in another phase of BriLab and but acquitted of the charges against him.</ref>U.S. District Judge Morey Sear allowed the admission of secretly-recorded conversations that he said demonstrated political corruption at the highest levels of state government.<ref>''The New York Times,', May 18, 1981, Section IV, p. 13</ref> Young was acquitted of all charges.<ref>''The New York Times,'' July 8, 1981, p. 18.</ref>
Roemer was thereafter convicted of one count of conspiracy<ref>''[[The New York Times]],'', July 31, 1981, p. 6.</ref> and imprisoned. He was released in October 1984.<ref name=bopgov>{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Charles&Middle=E&LastName=Roemer&Race=W&Sex=M&Age=&x=66&y=14|title=Inmate Locator|publisher=Federal Bureau of Prisons|accessdate=May 1, 2010}}</ref> Marcello was convicted of conspiracy and then indicted on additional charges involving an alleged attempt to bribe the judge.<ref>''The New York Times,'' August 6, 1981, p. 13.</ref> He was finally released from prison in October 1989.<ref name=bopgov/> Irving Davidson claimed that federal agents had used threats and offers of immunity from prosecution to convict Marcello.<ref>''The New York Times,'' July 9, 1981, p. 14.</ref> The Bureau of Prisons inmate locator does not indicate that Davidson or Mannello ever served time.<ref name=bopgov/>
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