{"id":33713,"date":"2013-01-18T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T19:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33713"},"modified":"2013-01-18T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T19:36:33","slug":"former-mayor-of-chocolate-city-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33713","title":{"rendered":"Former Mayor of &#8220;Chocolate City&#8221; indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-21092346#FBM182196\">BBC<\/a> to a &#8220;couldn&#8217;t happen to a better guy&#8221; story about Ray Nagin, the guy who, as mayor of New Orleans, watched his city collapse from his hotel room in Baton Rouge. Well, it seems he&#8217;s facing 21 charges for wire fraud, bribery, filing false tax returns and money laundering;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The charges come amid an investigation that has already seen two businessmen and two former city officials plead guilty.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>His indictment in the case has been long expected.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nagin, 56, is accused of using his office for personal gain and of accepting bribes and other illicit gratuities while the city of New Orleans reeled in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>According to the federal indictment, Mr Nagin accepted more than $160,000 (\u00a3100,000) in bribes for his family business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All I can say is &#8220;good&#8221;. But it&#8217;s been my experience that these clowns never get what they deserve, so we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends a link from BBC to a &#8220;couldn&#8217;t happen to a better guy&#8221; story about &hellip; <a title=\"Former Mayor of &#8220;Chocolate City&#8221; indicted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33713\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Mayor of &#8220;Chocolate City&#8221; indicted<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}