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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin under investigation: source
Reuters ^ | Feb 11, 2012 | Kathy Finn

Posted on 02/11/2012 6:06:36 PM PST by george76

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the colorful and controversial spokesman for the city after the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is under investigation by federal authorities, a source with direct knowledge of the probe said.

The source told Reuters on Friday that several people linked to Nagin or the New Orleans city administration during his two terms as mayor ending in 2010 were cooperating with the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI

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Nagin, who is black, was criticized for racial divisiveness after Katrina for urging residents to rebuild a "chocolate New Orleans,"

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: corrupt; katrinanagin; neworleans; raynagin
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1 posted on 02/11/2012 6:06:45 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Anyone got the picture of all those buses that could have evacuated New Orleans?


2 posted on 02/11/2012 6:09:46 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: george76

Oh yes, Katrina will be brought up all the way to election day.

Obama is still running against Booosh.


3 posted on 02/11/2012 6:14:27 PM PST by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: george76

Why did you clip out what he was under investigation for?


4 posted on 02/11/2012 6:15:29 PM PST by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: george76

He must have really pi$$ed of someone in the Food Stamp President’s administration to have Eric the Bigot go after him ... Eric just doesn’t go after “his people” without a significant reason. Did Nagin keep some of the loot from a gun running, money laundering, drug dealing, sex trafficking, etc. Food Stamp President operation?


5 posted on 02/11/2012 6:17:26 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Freddd
Since leaving office in 2010, speculation has swirled that Nagin would eventually become the target of a federal probe after a former associate and close personal friend pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the city.
6 posted on 02/11/2012 6:21:53 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: struggle

7 posted on 02/11/2012 6:25:42 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'm not cut out to suffer fools like this.)
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To: Freddd

<< Why did you clip out what he was under investigation for? >>

To save the moderators the trouble of having to reduce the post.


whether Nagin received favors or items of value from vendors to the city in return for contracts they received while Nagin was in office


8 posted on 02/11/2012 6:26:13 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Freddd; george76

“...Why did you clip out what he was under investigation for?...”
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george76 did not say...
freddd did not say...
So here it is:
“The investigation includes whether Nagin received favors or items of value from vendors to the city in return for contracts they received while Nagin was in office, the source said.”

See how easy that is?


9 posted on 02/11/2012 6:26:36 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: george76

Ray Nagin killed Whitney Houston?


10 posted on 02/11/2012 6:27:22 PM PST by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: struggle

11 posted on 02/11/2012 6:28:58 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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12 posted on 02/11/2012 6:30:18 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: george76

Here’s hoping he winds up as the sweetest piece of “chocolate” in Angola Prison.


13 posted on 02/11/2012 6:36:39 PM PST by Yankee (ANNOY THE RNC AND THE MEDIA: NOMINATE NEWT GINGRICH!)
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To: struggle
The Landreau family is who needs to be investigated.
The buses were a result of Aunt Phillis Landreau who as president of the local school board would not release the buses. The houses in the ninth ward were mostly rental properties own by three corporations that repeatedly used HUD funding to revitalize (but who never got the repairs done) Charged the government large sums for rent through HUD. All set up by Ol man Landreau who set the HUD program up under Jimmy Carter.

Check out the archives in the local Paper (Piceheaun sp). They were investigating the fraud when Katrina hit.

14 posted on 02/11/2012 6:44:50 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God and Sarah, the Gipper and Newt will be standing next to you.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Nagin crossed the Landreau and their housing “projects”. See post above.


15 posted on 02/11/2012 6:48:01 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God and Sarah, the Gipper and Newt will be standing next to you.)
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To: george76

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

16 posted on 02/11/2012 6:53:29 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: george76

Laudrea’s Uncle/brother is connected to BO in Chicago and the slum real estate of Valerie Jarrett IIRC.

Also the Rogers, that resigned earlier from the WH social department has the Chicago/New Orleans connection.

It’s quite of web of corruption and fraud all connected to political families and who’s who in the drug/real estate/money laudering.

Don’t expect them to look into Landreau, but they will go after Nagin as a favor to the family. Corruption in the city is second only to Chicago.


17 posted on 02/11/2012 6:55:55 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God and Sarah, the Gipper and Newt will be standing next to you.)
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To: george76

Never fear, he’ll just play his “I’m black so I get out of trouble free” card.


18 posted on 02/11/2012 8:11:52 PM PST by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Thanks. One of my pet peeves. If someone can’t be bothered to post the meat and gist of the article then they shouldn’t post at all. Let someone more thoughtful do it.


19 posted on 02/11/2012 8:42:53 PM PST by plain talk
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To: hoosiermama

Wow u nailed that evil family.
The current NOLA Mayor Mitch was in charge of LA state hurricane evacuations during Katrina .
The family is pure evil .


20 posted on 02/11/2012 8:53:36 PM PST by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !H)
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