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Former New Orleans mayor charged with bribery, fraud (Updated)
The Washington Times ^ | January 18, 2013 | Michael Kunzelman - AP

Posted on 01/18/2013 10:34:46 AM PST by jazusamo

NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been indicted on 21 corruption charges including wire fraud, bribery and money laundering.

The charges announced Friday come from a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: 0bamarigged; chocolatecity; corruption; democrat; indicted; katrina; lockandload; nagin; neworleans; raynagin; staysafe
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To: jazusamo

Couldn’t happen to a feeter smellow, I mean a sweeter fellow. Remember him from the hurricane?


101 posted on 01/19/2013 2:37:19 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I sure do remember the turkey and you’re right, he deserves this. It’s a shame it took this long but better late than never.


102 posted on 01/19/2013 3:03:33 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo
Perhaps Nagin can do his part to keep the prison system...chocolate.
103 posted on 01/19/2013 6:10:19 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: jazusamo
Nagin proclaims "Chocolate City"
104 posted on 01/20/2013 3:04:12 PM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: Old Sarge

I still remember that, really pathetic. He’ll undoubtedly ‘come togethu’ with a few of his crooked fellow politicians before long in a federal slammer.


105 posted on 01/20/2013 3:10:55 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

Isn’t this pretty much the norm for NO Officials?


106 posted on 01/21/2013 4:00:21 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: wideawake
am running out of heroes.

Well, we have a superhero in Seattle that you can borrow for a while.

Phoenix Jones

107 posted on 01/22/2013 5:16:29 AM PST by John123 (US$ - I owe you nothing. Euro - Who owes you nothing.)
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To: BluH2o
...... this is the kind of crap Bush had to put up with ... a corrupt mayor, a ditsy female 'Rat governor ... and he took the hit. Katrina was Bush's fault.

Louisiana Gov. Blanco was the political protege of Sen. Mary Landrieu and was in constant contact, partly because Blanco and Nagin were both out of their depth to begin with.

Bush wanted to put FEMA assets in-state before the hurricane landed, but Blanco said no, on advice from Mary Landrieu. She used the constitutional division of powers between federal and state government to shut Bush out for, iirc, four days. She only let Bush in when it was too late, and time for the MSM to start shoveling out blame.

So, why did Mary Landreiu tell Blanco to keep Bush out? For the answer to that, we'd have to talk to the man who was in constant contact with Landrieu during the crisis, advising her from somewhere offstage, by the curtains. That was James Carville.

Okay, so who was Carville talking to? Who was the Man Behind the Curtain, who destroyed Bush's second term by tripping up the federal disaster response to "Katrina"?

Someone who wanted his wife to have a walk in the park into the White House in 2008, that's who.

108 posted on 01/22/2013 2:22:33 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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