Former New Orleans Mayor Reports to Prison

Sept. 15, 2014

Former New Orleans Mayor Reports to Prison

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Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from TheNorthStarNews.com

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - C. Ray Nagin, 58, former mayor of New Orleans, reported to a minimum-security federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, on Monday to begin serving a 10 year sentence after being convicted of public corruption, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service told The NorthStar News & Analysis.

New Orleans U.S. District Court Judge Helen G. Berrigan in July sentenced Nagin who was convicted of 20 of 21 counts of public corruption.

A federal jury convicted him of one count of conspiracy, five counts of bribery, nine counts of wire fraud, one count of money laundering and four counts of filing false tax returns. The jury found Nagin guilty of accepting more than $160,000 in bribes and truckloads of granite for his family business, Stone Age, LLC. Nagin also was ordered to pay $84,264 in restitution to the IRS.

Federal prosecutors indicted Nagin in January 2013. He is the first New Orleans mayor to be convicted of crimes and sentenced to prison. Nagin was the voice of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, which flooded parts of the city in August 2005. Nagin served as mayor from 2002 to 2010.