John W. Houghtaling II

Houghtaling is the majority owner of Gauthier, Murphy & Houghtaling, a New Orleans law firm.^[1][2] In 2005, Houghtaling served as special counsel to the Attorney General of Louisiana in the litigation of policyholder rights in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, Houghtaling was appointed as plaintiffs liaison counsel by the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District. He uncovered fraud within the FEMA Flood Insurance program which led to the arrest of a key insurance contractor, a seven figure Federal fine against the insurer, and defense counsel, in the NFIP.^[3]

In 2014, he co-founded American Ethane Company. Houghtaling has signed conditionally bindings contracts to supply 7.2 million tons a year of ethane to China, a sale volume that exceeds 72 billion dollars.^[4][5][6][7]