[battlegearboat]

Pravda is very interested in this.

[U S Army EOD]

I am beginning to wonder about how many of those "suicides" were not suicides.

[claptrap]

The plot thickens!

[phil112]

just a bunch of blood sucking leeches...maggots and thieves

[rawhide]

I wonder if you would find this in the La State Police?
Also I wonder if you researched other departments in both New Orleans and the La State government, you would find many phantom employees? I can only imagine you would.
I hope the FBI does a thorough job?

[Dustbunny]

New Orleans Police haunted by corruption

Wow, who would have ever thought this was possible.

[andie74]

So Nagin is sending police officers to Vegas on the LA nickel, eh?

Wouldn't wonder if Harry Reid offered to put them all up...for a fee, of course.

[de Buillion]

I was responding to this post at about post#3, that it was duplicate, and got a message that this thread pulled, yet it still seems to be here.

[citizencon]

10,000 dead (truth: 900); 1,700 police officers (900). Go figure...the mayor is mathematically delusional.

[aquila48]

New Orleans Police haunted by corruption

Makes it sound like the police dept is the victim!!!

How about "New Orleans Police Corrupt"

At first I thought it was AP or the NYT - it's Pravda!

Same thing.

[stinkerpot65]

Am I the only one who has had a passing thought that maybe there was a reason a hurricane went through the debauched city of New Orleans?

[TheCrusader]

"Several middle ranking police officers committed suicide after the Katrina debacle, Nagin and Compass believe it was due to trauma and exhaustion from the storm but officials are looking into whether or not it might have been related to fear of being caught in a payroll scandal, AHN reports."

Or murder.

[af_vet_rr]

Corruption was wide-spread during the Katrina aftermath

That statement should read "Corruption in Louisiana has been wide-spread for generations".

I lived in Louisiana in the '60s, I've driven through it many many times over the past 30 years, and there has never been any doubt in my mind about the problems there, and the fact that they start at the top (and I'm not talking the N.O. police leadership - it goes right on up to the state level).

[ex-Texan]

Thanks for posting this report!

[johnny7]

Welcome to FreeRepublic... Tovarisch.

[FreedomPoster]

I'd sure like to see another primary source on this, besides Fox News.

[marty60]

You mean Clinton's 100,000 cops on the streets scam, was really just a payoff to his favorite Dum politicians.

[aShepard]

"And in a follow-up interview with Captain Compass, he asked the media to go away, 'so's he can jes enjoy time wif his family on their 100 foot yacht'".

[WasDougsLamb]

Mayor Ray Nagin was also questioned about allowing a large number of unnamed police officers to go to Las Vegas for rest and relaxation once the military arrived to take over the city. But a problem for the mayor rose when questioned who those officers were and how they could be contacted. Nagin did not have specific names to give.

Several middle ranking police officers committed suicide after the Katrina debacle, Nagin and Compass believe it was due to trauma and exhaustion from the storm but officials are looking into whether or not it might have been related to fear of being caught in a payroll scandal, AHN reports.

---Someone better check all of Ray Nagins bank accounts and trace how many fictitious ones he has then charge all of those involved (that exist).

[jordan8]

This is simply a reprint of a tabloid article making unproven allegations. There were 2 suicides, not several.