Ex-New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin heads off to prison for corruption

The Washington Times. ^ | September 8, 2014 | Cheryl K. Chumley

[jazusamo]

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The former mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, shuffled off Monday to serve a 10-year federal prison term on corruption convictions stemming from the city’s years-long recovery of Hurricane Katrina devastations.

Mr. Nagin is serving out his sentence in Texarkana, Texas, Reuters reported.

[jazusamo]

Nagin will have to spend a minimum of 8 1/2 years of the 10 year sentence, at least there's some flowers to cheer him up.

Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana

Location	Bowie County , near Texarkana, Texas
Status	Operational
Security class	Low-security (with minimum-security prison camp)
Population	1,200 (290 in prison camp)
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[Red Badger]

Ray Nagin heads off to prison for corruption

he's going to get even more corrupt?....................

[deadrock]

The other chocolate city.

[TexasFreeper2009]

but is it a chocolate prison?

[TexasFreeper2009]

And will he ride one of the buses he didn’t use during the hurricane?

[ozzymandus]

Bush’s fault.

[jazusamo]

No doubt about it. lol

[Ray76]

Earlier today I was thinking about Mr. Chocolate City and whatever happened to him. Now I know.

[dfwgator]

Will they transport him to prison by bus?

Louisiana - Half under water, the other half under indictment.

[nascarnation]

POTUS pardon in Jan 2017?
Or doesn’t he have enough dough to buy one?

[Cementjungle]

...Ray Nagin, shuffled off Monday...

I thought it was a Federal hate crime to use the word "shuffled"

[jazusamo]

Definitely a possibility from The Won. I have a hunch he’s got enough money.

[Dick Bachert]

Gee, many of those flowers are the very same color as the HUNDREDS OF UNUSED SCHOOL BUSES that could have been used to EVACUATE folks from NOLA — but, instead, sat idle and destroyed by the flood waters!

Corruption? Hell, Nagin should have been tried for STUPIDITY!!

[servo1969]

MSNBC: Some former mayor went to prison today. In other news- BUUUUUUUUSSSHHHHHH!!1!!

[nascarnation]

Caliph Baraq will net a sultan’s fortune in Jan 2017 for pardons issued.

[Gay State Conservative]

If he was corrupt *after* Katrina one could wonder if he was corrupt during it...and just before it.Maybe that's part of the reason so many people were stranded in the city.Well,him and the Rat Governor (Blanco?).

[Cvengr]

Of course, in DNC parlance, this means he’s been promoted.

[BigIsleGal]

No comment.

[RightFighter]

Something is missing from this article...

[Calvin Locke]

There's a term in the Federal prison system called "Bus Therapy".

Basically they'll stick a recalcitrant inmate on the regularly scheduled prison transports between prisons for whatever reason.

They're handcuffed, probably shackled, and they go for a pretty miserable ride. Adding to the discomfort, they get very "binding" sandwiches. Sort of the same effect as two weeks on bread and water.