Cops say Jeremy Nagin, 18, and a pal tried to make off with $800 in clothing and a $500 cell phone by using an altered credit card.
[snip] Authorities say Jeremy Nagin and Nantambu began their scam by stealing a credit card and using a decoding device to decipher its confidential data.
Then, they allegedly used a computer program to graft those numbers onto another credit card, which was used in the Bloomie's theft and in booking a room at the Courtyard by Marriott.
The two were charged with grand larceny, criminal impersonation, criminal possession of stolen property and forgery.
[snip]" The New Orleans mayor, who is married with three kids, was previously vice president and general manager of Cox Communications. He was responsible for Cox launching the first 24-hour television news service in the United States with CBS affiliate WWL, and is also a principal owner of the professional ice hockey franchise in New Orleans.
A corporate partnership that considered bidding to manage New Orleans' water and sewer operations was secretly paying business executive Gilbert Jackson $1,500 a month because Jackson -- whose employer, the engineering firm Camp Dresser & McKee, was helping draw up the bid specifications -- told company representatives that doing so would help them win the contract, federal prosecutors contend.The revelation, from filings in an unrelated case in Ohio, is the first assertion that payoffs figured in the city's long flirtation with privatizing parts of the Sewerage & Water Board, a five-year process that critics often complained was open to shenanigans.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Announcing the appointment of a new Sewerage and Water Board director, Mayor Ray Nagin said Wednesday that the city has scuttled all plans to privatize the system.Marcia St. Martin, who has served as interim director of the board since 2003, was selected as part of a nationwide search. The announcement ends years of debate over which entity could best handle a crumbling infrastructure and federally mandated repairs. Three groups -- U.S. Filter, United Water and a group of Sewerage and Water Board managers -- were vying for the contract, which would have been worth $1 billion.
The water board is responsible for providing residents with clean drinking water, performing wastewater treatment and disposal and maintaining one of the most extensive and complex drainage systems in the country, Nagin's office said.