More than a decade ago, Ray Nagin was elected mayor of New Orleans on a vow to root out corruption in a city plagued by decades of it. On Friday, the former mayor was indicted on charges he lined his pockets with bribe money, payoffs and gratuities while the chronically poor city struggled to recover from Hurricane Katrina’s punishing blow.
The federal indictment alleges that city contractors paid Nagin more than $200,000 in bribes and subsidized his trips to Hawaii, Jamaica and other places in exchange for his help securing millions of dollars in work for the city.
The charges against Nagin are the product of a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen and a prison sentence for a former city vendor.
And what group is he a member of?
Seems that “Progressives” always speak out against despicable behavior that they personally partake in.
This is why Nagin suddenly decided to STFU after Katrina. Bush threatened to trace back all those federally funded checks to mystery police that suddenly “vanished” after Katrina.
Of course, this didn’t prevent Jindal from doing his own digging at the state level.
You have to admit that corruption couldn’t hide from him.
“Seems that “Progressives” always speak out against despicable behavior that they personally partake in. ”
People do tend to go on at length about things they know well.
To be fair, the people pushing for gun control seem to almost nothing about guns, crimes, or even our current crop of gun laws.
“Corruption” is always “that other guy” that’s getting all of the money that SHOULD be coming to you.
And there you have the politics of my hometown in a nutshell. The most lucrative and corrupt board in NOLA was the Levee board. What was it that broke during Katrina again?