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New Orleans' Dem Mayor LaToya Cantrell faces FBI probe over cozy relationship with her bodyguard whose wife dumped him over 'affair' after footage showed them spending HOURS together in city-owned apartment during work days
Daily Mail ^ | 1/18/24 | Stephen M. Lepore

Posted on 01/18/2024 2:49:08 AM PST by Libloather

The Democrat mayor of New Orleans Latoya Cantrell is facing an FBI probe over allegations she had an 'ongoing adulterous affair' with the former head of her police detail on city property.

Cantrell was seen on security cameras spending hours together with Jeffrey Vappie in a city-owned apartment during work hours. Vappie has himself been investigated over hours he was alleged to be clocking in.

Now, the federal government is reportedly looking into whether the couple abused government funds for personal trips, as the pair have been seen partying from Los Angeles to Scotland.

Vappie's wife, Danielle, alleges that her husband and the mayor have been carrying on the affair since May 2021, the same month that he began working on Cantrell's detail.

Multiple media outlets in the area have confirmed that a 'Mrs. L.C.' referred to in the divorce filings is Cantrell. She became the first woman elected as mayor of New Orleans - which overtook St. Louis as the 'murder capital of America' under her watch - in 2018.

Rafael Goyeneche, the president of the anti-corruption Metropolitan Crime Commission, believes the story has several parallels to the downfall of ex-Nashville Mayor Megan Barry.

Barry and 'bodyguard' Sgt. Robert Forrest attended 10 city-funded trips by themselves without other mayor's office staff present, including to conferences overseas in Paris and Greece and the two to Washington, according to an affidavit.

Both pleaded guilty to theft and resigned after being ordered to pay tens of thousands in restitution.

'Well, the similarities are that you're talking about a police officer, that was part of an executive protection team for the mayor of Nashville, (who) was billing the city for work that he was not actually performing,' Goyeneche told Fox8.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: affair; apartment; cantrell; neworleans; nola; scandal
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LaToya is ridin' dirty.
1 posted on 01/18/2024 2:49:08 AM PST by Libloather
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2 posted on 01/18/2024 2:51:37 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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3 posted on 01/18/2024 2:55:26 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Libloather

Yet another racist attack on a successful black female. They just keep coming, one after another.


4 posted on 01/18/2024 3:05:24 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Libloather
Ahhh... Jeeze... They just can't figure out what's going on there.

But... if it were a republican...

5 posted on 01/18/2024 3:12:54 AM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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So...is anyone asking why the city keeps an ‘apartment’, especially one that has so little oversight that it can be easily used as a covert love nest?


6 posted on 01/18/2024 3:13:32 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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I bet she and Fani Willis of Atlanta are best buddies.

It shocks me when people are shocked that such shenanigans go on in corrupt Democrat-controlled cities. Name one large Democrat city that has not had a top member of its political leadership caught in corruption.

Leftists believe that all politicians do the same. When elected they think it is just their turn at the trough.


7 posted on 01/18/2024 3:20:59 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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Has anyone ever seen a study of what percentage of blacks run the federal government? I strongly suspect it’s in far greater number than their percentage of population. Just like welfare, where their numbers are multiple times their percentage of population. So a majority get a government paycheck one way or another. Then they use their position of power for criminal personal gain, and increasing benefits to others


8 posted on 01/18/2024 3:22:06 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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Funny how these folks with diverse backgrounds get elected by ignorant diverse background morons, then destroy the city they run by doing nothing but getting rich, screwing around and blame the non diverse background folks for their problems.


9 posted on 01/18/2024 3:31:13 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Libloather

While she tries to convict Trump of criminal stuff????


10 posted on 01/18/2024 3:53:43 AM PST by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: CFW

Power corrupts, and attracts corruptable people.


11 posted on 01/18/2024 3:57:48 AM PST by Daveinyork
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She was married when the affair took place; her husband died last August.
She also made official plane trips w/ upgrades costing
taxpayers thousands, "because she's black" and needed extra safety.
12 posted on 01/18/2024 4:04:46 AM PST by Liz
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To: Libloather

Your tax $$$ at work!


13 posted on 01/18/2024 4:04:55 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: Liz

Here she is at the Mayor's Mardi Gras Ball w/ a friend.

14 posted on 01/18/2024 4:07:51 AM PST by Liz
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It would be good if a news agency put together a compilation of the political and moral failures of prominent black women. One after another have been exposed as corrupt, greedy and selfish. It would make people think twice about voting for another one.


15 posted on 01/18/2024 4:08:39 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Liz

Looks like a drag queen show.


16 posted on 01/18/2024 4:12:29 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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These black female politicians sure like to do the nasty with the help. Nice to see equal opportunity sleazy behavior.


17 posted on 01/18/2024 4:13:01 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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While these corrupt pols deserve a good thumpin’, could someone explain to me why this is a federal beef, and not for the state AG?


18 posted on 01/18/2024 4:38:06 AM PST by BikerJoe
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...because she's black" and needed extra safety.

Isn't it amazing how these blacks who get elected to high offices and treated like royalty whine the most about being oppressed and scared?

Especially when they are caught in their corruption.

19 posted on 01/18/2024 5:31:09 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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She needs the FIB.


20 posted on 01/18/2024 5:47:08 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (In a world of parrots and lemmings, be a watchdog.)
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