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"Chocolate City" Mayor Goes To Prison

Mike

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Wonder if he'll be locked up with the other local jailbird Democrat Rep. Jefferson?

NEW ORLEANS – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reported to a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, on Monday to begin serving a 10-year sentence.

Nagin arrived at the facility shortly before noon. New Orleans television stations showed images of Nagin hugging family members in a parking lot before he entered the lockup. The Bureau of Prisons operates a low-security prison there with an adjacent minimum security camp. Bureau spokesman Chris Burke said Nagin reported to the minimum security camp.

In February, Nagin was convicted on 20 counts including bribery, conspiracy and money laundering stemming from his two terms as mayor, including the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

A Democrat, Nagin had been elected as a reformer when he took office in 2002. But prosecutors said graft in his administration began before Katrina and flourished afterward. Bribes included money, free vacations and truckloads of free granite for his family business.

Re-elected in 2006 despite growing dissatisfaction with the city's recovery, he left office in 2010

A public defender in New Orleans is pursuing an appeal of Nagin's conviction.

Assistant Federal Public Defender Jordan Mark Siverd recently was appointed to the case after Nagin's previous attorney, Robert Jenkins, said the former mayor was unable to pay him. U.S. District Judge Helen Ginger Berrigan had approved the appointment of a public defender. According to a questionnaire filed with the court, Nagin had just $23.65 in the bank and numerous debts.

Nagin reported to prison the week after his former technology chief and deputy mayor, Greg Meffert, was sentenced to 2 ½ years, for his role in the corruption. Meffert had faced a possible eight years but prosecutors urged a lighter sentence and praised his cooperation in the case against Nagin and others.

Another key figure who was convicted in the case, technology vendor Mark St. Pierre, last week won a reduction of his original sentence of 17 ½ years. Because he helped prosecutors after he was convicted, St. Pierre's sentence was cut to five years.
 
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Mike said:
Wonder if he'll be locked up with the other local jailbird Democrat Rep. Jefferson?

NEW ORLEANS – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reported to a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, on Monday to begin serving a 10-year sentence.

Nagin arrived at the facility shortly before noon. New Orleans television stations showed images of Nagin hugging family members in a parking lot before he entered the lockup. The Bureau of Prisons operates a low-security prison there with an adjacent minimum security camp. Bureau spokesman Chris Burke said Nagin reported to the minimum security camp.

In February, Nagin was convicted on 20 counts including bribery, conspiracy and money laundering stemming from his two terms as mayor, including the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

A Democrat, Nagin had been elected as a reformer when he took office in 2002. But prosecutors said graft in his administration began before Katrina and flourished afterward. Bribes included money, free vacations and truckloads of free granite for his family business.

Re-elected in 2006 despite growing dissatisfaction with the city's recovery, he left office in 2010

A public defender in New Orleans is pursuing an appeal of Nagin's conviction.

Assistant Federal Public Defender Jordan Mark Siverd recently was appointed to the case after Nagin's previous attorney, Robert Jenkins, said the former mayor was unable to pay him. U.S. District Judge Helen Ginger Berrigan had approved the appointment of a public defender. According to a questionnaire filed with the court, Nagin had just $23.65 in the bank and numerous debts.

Nagin reported to prison the week after his former technology chief and deputy mayor, Greg Meffert, was sentenced to 2 ½ years, for his role in the corruption. Meffert had faced a possible eight years but prosecutors urged a lighter sentence and praised his cooperation in the case against Nagin and others.

Another key figure who was convicted in the case, technology vendor Mark St. Pierre, last week won a reduction of his original sentence of 17 ½ years. Because he helped prosecutors after he was convicted, St. Pierre's sentence was cut to five years.

Maybe he and McDonnell can share a cell and they can teach each other a few lessons on how to be a crook...

Robert F. McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia, was convicted along with his wife of trading political influence for loans and gifts, prompting the state attorney general to call for ethics reform.

Robert McDonnell, once seen as a possible Republican presidential contender in 2016, and his wife Maureen, a former Washington Redskins cheerleader, were accused of misusing state resources for the benefit of businessman Jonnie Williams. In exchange for helping Williams promote the dietary supplement Anatabloc, the cash-strapped McDonnells were showered with gifts such as private plane flights, golf trips and a $20,000 shopping spree for Maureen, according to prosecutors.

But I agree with Andy--- putting normal everyday crooks with politicians should be considered cruel and inhumane punishment for those poor honest everyday crooks...

Andy Borowitz

I can't celebrate former Gov. Bob McDonnell going to jail when so many other politicians remain free.

Andy Borowitz

My one concern about imprisoning politicians is their negative influence on the other prisoners.
 

Steve

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On November 13, 2009, Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years for bribery, the longest sentence ever handed down to a congressman for bribery
On November 26, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Jefferson's petition for certiorari, making the convictions final. He is scheduled for release on August 30, 2023.

well it looks like they may have the better part of ten years to figure out what went wrong... :shock:
 

Mike

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Steve said:
On November 13, 2009, Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years for bribery, the longest sentence ever handed down to a congressman for bribery
On November 26, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Jefferson's petition for certiorari, making the convictions final. He is scheduled for release on August 30, 2023.

well it looks like they may have the better part of ten years to figure out what went wrong... :shock:


Yea, Jefferson was caught with cash in his freezer. LOL

As for the other umpteen Black Mayors who have gone to prison mostly for corruption, I think they're all trying to outdo each other. Most every city has at least one. :lol:


Must be some sort of culture thing?
 

Steve

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Robert McDonnell, once seen as a possible Republican presidential contender in 2016,

only by the press, party elite, and you of course..

but then you guys are for the status quo...
 
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