Posted on 01/18/2013 11:57:55 AM PST by Zakeet
A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former Mayor Ray Nagin with 21 counts of corruption, alleging that while in office, Nagin took cash bribes and gifts from two city contractors and used his power as mayor to leverage a granite installation contract from Home Depot as the retailer was building a store in Central City. Despite New Orleans' reputation for political shenanigans, Nagin is the first mayor in the city's history to be indicted by a grand jury on corruption charges.
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The indictment against Nagin includes six counts of bribery, one count of conspiracy, one count of money laundering, nine counts of deprivation of honest services through wire fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
The Mayor of Chocolate City is headed uptown to Chocolate University for an advanced degree in Chocolatology.
I thought in Lousiana corruption was a job requirement for a politician.
It’s not in the lede, but give NOLA.com credit for identifying Nagin with the Democratic Party -
and in the second, not the last, paragraph.
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