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Former New Orleans mayor indicted on federal corruption charges
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/justice/louisiana-former-mayor-indicted/index.html ^

Posted on 01/27/2014 12:47:44 PM PST by kcvl

As part of the alleged bribes, Nagin's family members received a vacation in Hawaii; first-class airfare to Jamaica; private jet travel and a limousine for New York City totaling $23,500; and cellular phone service, the indictment said.

According to the indictment, the bribing businessmen allegedly received city contracts of $1 million for consulting, more than $3 million to build a project at Louis Armstrong International Airport, and $1 million for another airport project, the indictment said. Other contracts were for sidewalk repairs in the French Quarter and professional services, authorities allege.

Among the conspiracy charges is an accusation that Nagin awarded "no bid" work to a city contractor who provided "concealed and direct campaign monies" to Nagin, the indictment says.

Nagin allegedly received bribes from city contractors in the amounts of $60,000, $2,250, $50,000 and $10,000, the indictment says.

He also is accused of receiving a bribe in the form of granite inventory from a city construction contractor.

Nagin faces nine counts of honest services wire fraud, alleging he received nine wire transfers amounting to $12,500 each that were bribes or kickback payoffs from the same city construction contractor in 2010 and 2011, the indictment says. Those bribed totaled $112,500. In his 2005 tax return -- the same year that Katrina hit the Gulf Coast -- Nagin allegedly filed a false tax return claiming his income was $156,278, the indictment says.

He is also accused of filing false returns for 2006 listing his income at $170,364, for 2007 with an income of $31,163, and for 2008 with a $143,852 income, the indictment said.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii; US: Louisiana; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bribes; chocolatecity; corruption; nagin; raynagin
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To: SkyDancer

We have long realized that where party affiliation is omitted by the MSM, the perp has to be a Rat!


21 posted on 01/27/2014 1:20:24 PM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: kcvl
So what?

I've known that politicians in LA and New Orleans were absolutely, unrelentingly and irreparably corrupt since I became aware of politics in the 1950's.

It's been so bad for so long that my parents used to offer up an excuse for NM back in that time.

It was "thank god for LA".

If not for LA, NM would have been and might still be the most corrupt State in the Union.

22 posted on 01/27/2014 1:27:45 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: kcvl

There have been some articles over the past day or so but
I’ve not seen anything on the national tv news.

https://www.google.com/#q=Nagin+goes+to+trial


23 posted on 01/27/2014 1:29:03 PM PST by deport
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To: kcvl

Maybe he can get assigned to a chocolate cell block.


24 posted on 01/27/2014 1:43:05 PM PST by bgill
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To: kcvl

Don't forget, Ragin' Nagin is still one of Holder's People


25 posted on 01/27/2014 1:44:21 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: kcvl

Whoa. Did my lying eyes deceive me again? I thought it said that Eric the Corrupt indicted one of His Arrogance’s possible son candidates. I guess even his son must pay his fees (or tax if you like) to the Chicago Group, LLC.


26 posted on 01/27/2014 1:45:21 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Stalin is smiling in Hell at how well Obama has copied his communist organization.)
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To: kcvl

Now, whenever a Conservative complains about the targeting of tea-partiers, leftist talking heads will cite Nagin as proof that ubama/holder are balanced in their prosecutions...


27 posted on 01/27/2014 1:46:06 PM PST by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're shouting "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: Doogle
Admiral Nagan hits the rocks......beach em.

Nagin's Navy


28 posted on 01/27/2014 1:53:53 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: kcvl
Racis' charges.

He should be in jail for leaving the school buses empty and flooded.

29 posted on 01/27/2014 1:56:29 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: kcvl

This story is over a year old. Right?


30 posted on 01/27/2014 2:00:29 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: kcvl

I hope he gets at least 30 days in jail bit he probably won’t.


31 posted on 01/27/2014 2:03:12 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: kcvl

Just another example of Mychal Massie’s asertion that the “Black Elite” are living “N-——er Rich.”


32 posted on 01/27/2014 2:07:42 PM PST by vette6387
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To: thefactor

good catch, they are doing jury selection for the trial now. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/27/justice/nagin-trial/index.html?iref=allsearch


33 posted on 01/27/2014 2:27:11 PM PST by lwd
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To: kcvl

Why am I not seeing this anywhere else, not even on Drudge?


34 posted on 01/27/2014 2:28:33 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Oh, I see this is a year-old story. Why post it now?


35 posted on 01/27/2014 2:29:36 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

BRIBERY TRIAL OPENS FOR RAY NAGIN, EX-NEW ORLEANS MAYOR

January 27, 2014,

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bribery-trial-opens-for-ex-new-orleans-mayor/


36 posted on 01/27/2014 2:59:00 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Color me surprised.


37 posted on 01/27/2014 3:14:36 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: kcvl
Maybe a scant 15 sec mention on the network evening news without an party affiliation, of course.

Brent Bozell & Newsbusters will be watching and reporting the bias & omissions.

38 posted on 02/12/2014 1:02:21 PM PST by TexasCajun
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39 posted on 02/12/2014 1:03:19 PM PST by TexasCajun
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