Former North Shore district attorney Walter Reed, left, and his attorney, Richard Simmons Jr., outside the federal courthouse in New Orleans in 2017.

Walter Reed has served less than a year of his four-year federal prison sentence on corruption charges, but the 73-year-old former district attorney from the north shore is asking to ...

Walter Reed, the former district attorney for St. Tammany and Washington parishes, left, and his son, Steven Reed, arrive at federal court in New Orleans Wednesday, April 5, 2017, for Reed's ...

Walter Reed's lawyer told a federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Attorney's Office is using a forfeiture proceeding against the former north shore district attorney in an attempt to increase ...

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former North Shore DA Walter Reed to four years in jail after he was found guilty last year on 18 counts of public corruption.