City Hall corruption sweep begins 84 busts today target brake-tag, taxicab officials Corruption pervades government, Nagin says 07/22/02By Gordon Russell Staff writer/The Times-Picayune In predawn raids, police this morning were scheduled to fan out across New Orleans to arrest 84 city bureaucrats, brake-tag inspectors and illegally licensed cab drivers on charges of public bribery and malfeasance, an opening salvo by the Nagin administration in what bodes to be the biggest crackdown on municipal corruption in the modern history of the city. Today's arrests will include at least one high-level city manager , as well as some brake-tag station...