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nagin-corruption-verdict.html?_r=0New York Times:

Former Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans was found guilty on Wednesday of accepting payoffs for city contracts, becoming the first mayor in the city’s history to be charged and convicted of corruption.

 

The jury, deliberated for about six and a half hours in total before finding Mr. Nagin, 57, the Democratic mayor for two terms and the face of the city’s leadership during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, guilty in 20 of the 21 counts against him.

 

Tania Tetlow, a Tulane University law professor and a former federal prosecutor, said Mr. Nagin could receive a sentence of as many as 20 years under federal sentencing guidelines. He will remain free on bond until sentencing, but was placed on home detention.Scissors-32x32.png


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"We as black people, it's time, it's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day." -- Ray Nagan

 

 

His favorite brand of bar must be Schadenfreude "Bitter Sweet".

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Curse you, George Bush! If you hadn't mishandled the Katrina cover clean-up.....Ray Nagin would never have been tempted to steal from his choklit city!

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Curse you, George Bush! If you hadn't mishandled the Katrina cover clean-up.....Ray Nagin would never have been tempted to steal from his choklit city!

 

 

You are of course aware that George and Dick steered Katrina so that it would hit New Orleans because 1. a Democrat was mayor and B. (more importantly) N.O. has a large number of Blacks.....Racism.

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Ray Nagin Found Guilty of Corruption; CNN Plays Name That Party
Ed Driscoll
February 12th, 2014

“Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin found guilty of corruption charges,” CNN reports. I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am.

 

Curiously though, hitting Control-F on the above Webpage detects no use of the word “Democrat” in the actual article; merely in the comments section from readers. As Ace notes today, “They simply refuse to offer party affiliations for convicted Democrats. They flat-out refuse. They just will not do it.” I think it was last month that he suggested a modest proposal to prevent such “unexpected” “accidental” oversights from occurring: append the style guide (such as AP’s version) that news agencies issue to their journalists to require naming the party when an official is found guilty of corruption charges. (I can’t find the exact post; feel free to paste the URL in the comments if you do, and I’ll add an update.)

 

But they never will — for reasons which are obvious. (Which is why, as Geoffrey Dickens noted last month at Newsbusters, “Don’t Know the Party of a Politician Caught in a Scandal? He’s Probably a Democrat.”)

 

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Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor turned felon, is just another grubby crook: James Varney

 

By James Varney, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

On February 12, 2014 at 4:02 PM, updated February 12, 2014 at 4:13 PM

 

It's tempting, when prominent former public officials get convicted, to talk about a character flaw and Greek tragedy. Tempting, but in the case of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, inaccurate.

 

There's nothing heroic about Nagin; nothing grand. His Wednesday conviction on 20 of 21 federal corruption counts doesn't mark the end of a great career, but the just desserts for another crook whom the city long ago left in its rear view mirror. The whole case is grubby and sordid, not tragic.

 

Nagin stands revealed not as a man whose accomplishments are overshadowed or undone by his flaw, but as just another elected official working harder for his personal enrichment than the public good. Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2014/02/ray_nagin_former_new_orleans_m.html#incart_river

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Lew Rockwell On Endemic Corruption of US Government

By Mises Updates

Saturday, February 15th, 2014

Former New Orleans, La. Mayor Ray Nagin was convicted of 20 counts of corruption, while found not guilty on one count. Nagin was the mayor of the Crescent City from 2002 to 2010, shepherding the city through the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding that began immediately after. But during the rebuilding phase, Nagin required kickbacks from people looking to help the battered city. RT’s Perianne Boring discusses the case and corruption in America with libertarian author Lew Rockwell.

http://bastiat.mises.org/?p=6767

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