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Ray Nagin indictment: First New Orleans mayor to face corruption charges
New Orleans Times-Picayune ^
| January 18, 2013
| Gordon Russell
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 ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: corruption; crime; nagin; neworleans
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It's George Bush's fault that Katrina wiped out my city and exposed my ineptitude and corruption!
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posted on
01/18/2013 11:57:59 AM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
From Chocolate City to Chocolate jail...
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:00:08 PM PST
by
max americana
(Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
To: Zakeet
Just another racist tin badge wannabee.
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:02:33 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
To: Zakeet
nd this took so long because?? Which witnesses have already “passed”...
To: Zakeet
Nagin’s picture is next to the dictionary definition of “slack-jawed insouciant.”
To: Zakeet
A corrupt Democrat.
But I repeat myself...
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:08:29 PM PST
by
grobdriver
(Sic semper tyrannis!)
To: Zakeet
Four counts of filing false tax returns. Another democrat fair share felon. These are the charges on which he’ll likely skate.
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:08:52 PM PST
by
DPMD
To: Zakeet
First New Orleans mayor to face corruption charges. I find that somewhat surprising considering it's New Orleans and Louisiana. I would have thought that more would have been indicted over the years.
To: Zakeet
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. YAY. I get to be the first one to say it!
Headlines from the Liberal media.....(and we all know it's coming)......."The only reason they're going after this democrat is because they're racist! All this has nothing to do with his personal finances. They're attacking him simply because he's a black man".
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:14:36 PM PST
by
abb
To: Zakeet
There must have been a lot of evidence for the GJ to indict the former Chocolate City mayor.
To: Zakeet
Don’t rob banks! Run for office. That’s where the real money is.
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:15:16 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Zakeet; Clemenza
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:17:58 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
To: blueunicorn6
Nobody said it better than Mark Twain:
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress."...politicians.
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:20:59 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
To: Zakeet
Ray Nagin indictment: First New Orleans mayor to face corruption charges Just how incompetent did he have to be to be just the first Mayor of New Orleans to face corruption charges?
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:21:10 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
To: Paleo Conservative
Ray Nagin indictment: First New Orleans mayor to face corruption charges
Just how incompetent did he have to be to be just the first Mayor of New Orleans to face corruption charges?*WHISTLE*...THAT CORRUPT...
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:24:41 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:35:16 PM PST
by
kenmcg
(scapegoat)
To: Zakeet
Schoolbusses coming home to roost?
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:45:36 PM PST
by
353FMG
( I refuse to specify whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
To: Zakeet
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ‘Bout danged time!
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posted on
01/18/2013 12:57:18 PM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade, There are only two sides. Pick one.)
To: Zakeet; mrsmel
one note in his defense..he got whites out of the convention center best he could
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posted on
01/18/2013 1:25:31 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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