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Topic: Feds closing in on Ray Nagin |
Feds closing in on Ray Nagin
WWL-AM [New Orleans]*, by Staff
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/6/2012 5:58:49 AM
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| A businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting to bribe an unidentified former New Orleans public official in a case that appears to be linked to a federal probe of former Mayor Ray Nagin. Rodney Williams, who was president of Three Fold Consultants LLC, made $72,250 in payoffs to the unidentified official for his help in securing city contracts for architectural, engineering and services work, according to a court filing accompanying his guilty plea. Legal analysts tell WWL First News that official is Ray Nagin.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/6/2012 6:09:14 AM (No. 9051001)
There aren´t enough prisons to hold dem kickback schemers in this country. Nothing gets done in these cities until some palms are greased.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
altoona, 12/6/2012 6:16:34 AM (No. 9051011)
Unless Nagin has ticked off someone in the administration, his should be a "chocolate" prosecution under Holder and he should be back to letting the good times roll in NO soon.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 12/6/2012 6:53:44 AM (No. 9051039)
FTA: ´´The City of New Orleans Receives Federal Assistance in Excess of $10,000 Annually.´´
But Nagin required 3 times that amount to award the contract? That sounds about right in line with other government officials´ rip-off tactics. First comes the cloak, then comes the dagger.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/6/2012 7:31:54 AM (No. 9051098)
Was Nagin caught trying to using vital resources to run a marathon in the immediate aftermath of Katrina?
Just wondering.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
artman1746, 12/6/2012 7:56:23 AM (No. 9051140)
The white elephant in the room: city governments dominated by liberal Democrat blacks become rampant with corruption. Everyone will look the other way from the obvious.
Blacks represent 13% of the population but 50% of crime. Nothing to see here.
Blacks have 70% out of wedlock births and we know fatherless families contribute to a host of cultural maladies. Turn your head. Look the other way.
Black representatives in congress from big city Democrat districts prove to be ignorant, uneducated Marxists supporting Castro and other murdering dictators. Oops. Don´t bring that up. Squirrel!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
A Balrog of Morgoth, 12/6/2012 7:59:33 AM (No. 9051145)
#5, one could say the same thing about governments run by liberal Democrat whites.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pineledger, 12/6/2012 8:19:59 AM (No. 9051182)
And Bush took the fall for Katrina.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
civilservant, 12/6/2012 8:22:25 AM (No. 9051190)
That´s why, #1..we need to build more................
Graveyards.
What is the penalty for treason?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/6/2012 8:39:50 AM (No. 9051220)
Mayor Nagin (have you checked the levees lately, mayor nagin? -the funniest bit on Imus in the aftermath of katrina) will be on a breathtakingly long list of people who will be pardoned at the end of Zero´s second term.
Think of it as delayed payments for slavery.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
disasterman, 12/6/2012 8:43:47 AM (No. 9051225)
So what if Nagin took bribes, the blame lies with Bush because he´s a racist. If Bush hadn´t sent Katrina to NO, poor Ray wouldn´t have had to accept payoffs.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
privateer, 12/6/2012 9:03:09 AM (No. 9051259)
So they´re closing in on Empty Noggin! He´s the real Brownie that screwed up the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But naturally, a Republican or two were happy to take the blame, courtesy of the Waste Stream Media.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 12/6/2012 11:25:50 PM (No. 9052868)
Some things are predictable.
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