Democratic Mayor Nagin, guilty

[Team Sergeant]

This is how democrats/progressives/socialists roll...... The sheep need to get their heads out of their collective asses.


Democratic Mayor Nagin, Guilty

Jury reaches verdict in ex-New Orleans mayor Nagin bribery case

A defense lawyer says a verdict has been reached in the corruption case against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

After a day's delay, deliberations resumed Wednesday. Nagin's attorney Robert Jenkins says the jury has made a decision. The timing of the announcement is uncertain.

Nagin faces a 21-count indictment. Prosecutors allege he took bribes worth more than $500,000 in a string of criminal acts that began before Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 and continued during the recovery.

The defense argued that the prosecution case was built on testimony from businessmen who entered plea deals and told prosecutors what they wanted to hear in hopes of getting light sentences.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...-bribery-case/

[CSB]

That site says verdict reached, doesn't say what the verdict is. Is there more news? Got it, guilty.

[Beef]

Not only is Baby Ray guilty of corruption, he's guilty of felony stupidity. Remember, he was the mayor of NOLA when Katrina missed it by several miles. If it had actually hit the city, it would have been apocalyptic. He's the one who left all the city buses in the bus park to be flooded after the levee broke instead of using them for evacuation.

[cbtengr]

I am sure that the A.G. is looking into this as it seems to clearly be a disproportionate case of convictions of minority mayors. Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick, D.C.'s Marion Barry, and now New Orleans Ray Nagin.

[CDRODA396]

Guilty of Bribery, Wire Fraud, Money Laundering, Tax Evasion, 20 of 21 counts.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...verage_10.html

Just another in a LOONNNGGGG Line of crooked politicians. Heck, being thrown in jail cant keep a good politician down in Louisiana!

"Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards isn't saying "yes" or "no" about a report that he's thinking about running for Congress.

Edwards, a colorful Democrat who served about a decade in federal prison for racketeering, told The Times Picayune that he didn't "have any comment at this time" about a report in The Hayride, a conservative website, that he's mulling a bid in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District.

But Edwards, who previously served in Congress from 1965 to 1972, told the New Orleans paper he's heard "a lot of encouragement" from people who want him to seek political office again. The congressional seat is currently held by GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy, who is running for the U.S. Senate."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpoli...eback/4303043/

[JimP]

What's interesting is that this verdict came from a State famous for tolerating this type of behavior under Huey Long. Corruption is rampant in Louisiana - hence May Landrieu, (ex. #1).

also - the "chocolate city" turned and bit the chocolateer.

Hope he gets to room with bubba and Skeeter.

[tonyz]

Shortly after Katrina...who doubts that this was at some point in time uttered by Nagin...

"...it's alright, I'm the mayor...I can do whatever I want..."

...maybe there's a selfish reason Holder is now focused on felons getting their voting rights restored.

[Mills]

Quite the victory.

I still remember it to this day.........

It's George Bush's fault that we have people stranded inside the city!

Dude played the blame game from day 1 in the interest of smearing the republican party because the entire state failed to take responsibility for what it failed to do.

[Sdiver]

Bubba done got his-self a new dance partner.

10-year sentence for ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin


NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering and other corruption that spanned his two terms as mayor — including the chaotic years after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan handed down the sentence Wednesday morning.

Nagin was convicted Feb. 12 of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from businessmen who wanted work from the city or Nagin's support for various projects. The bribes came in the form of money, free vacations and truckloads of free granite for his family business.

The 58-year-old Democrat had defiantly denied any wrongdoing after his 2013 indictment and during his February trial.

Nagin was a political newcomer when he won election as New Orleans' mayor, succeeding Marc Morial in 2002. He cast himself as a reformer and announced crackdowns on corruption in the city's automobile-inspection and taxi-permit programs. But federal prosecutors say his own corrupt acts began during his first term, continued through the Katrina catastrophe and flourished in his second term.

Until his indictment in 2013, he was perhaps best known for a widely heard radio interview in which he angrily, and sometimes profanely, asked for stepped-up federal response in the days after levee breaches flooded most of the city during Katrina.

He also drew notoriety for impolitic remarks, such as the racially charged "New Orleans will be chocolate again" and his comment that a growing violent crime problem "keeps the New Orleans brand out there."

Elected in 2002 with strong support from the business community and white voters, Nagin won re-election in 2006 with a campaign that sometimes played on fears among black voters that they were being left out of the city's spotty recovery. He was limited by law to two consecutive terms but a third term would have been unlikely, giving plunging approval ratings and the stricken city's continued recovery struggles. He was succeeded in 2010 by Mitch Landrieu.

Most government pre-sentence reports and recommendations were not made public but a filing by Jenkins ahead of the sentencing hearing indicated prosecutors were pushing for a sentence of 20 years or more under federal sentencing guidelines.

Defense attorney Robert Jenkins said that would amount to a virtual life sentence for the former mayor. Jenkins said Nagin's family needs him, there is no danger of Nagin committing more crimes and that the crimes for which Nagin was convicted constituted an aberration from an otherwise model life.

Prosecutors said the schemes that led to Nagin's conviction included two family members: His two grown sons were never charged with a crime but they were part of the family business that received free granite from a contractor. They also said that what Jenkins calls an "aberration" was behavior that spanned six years and involved multiple contractors.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/10-yea...rticle/2550648