Former New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin, sentenced to 10 years in prison (governor, state)
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Uh, yeah, he got what he deserved for sure. This kinda sums it up:
"A jury convicted Nagin of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes -- money, free vacation trips and truckloads of free granite for his family business -- from businessmen who wanted work from the city or Nagin's support for various hurricane recovery projects."
He violated the trust his people had in him and abused his position to line his own pockets. Glad the jury found him guilty.
Its a good start, but there are plenty of other New Orleans government officials and members of the NOPD who should also be going to prison.
I don't think you will find anyone to disagree with you there.
Hanging in the public square would set a very good example of what happens to scum like that.
I was done with Ray Nagin after Katrina when he and the chief of police got on tv and demonized their own constituents in the SuperDome and in the convention center and the city of New Orleans. They lied about the rapes and murders that were occurring and those accusations turned out to be complete fabrications. And that state of panic and delusions from Nagin probably led to police officers killing 11 civilians.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune on Monday described inflated body counts, unverified "rapes," and unconfirmed sniper attacks as among examples of "scores of myths about the dome and Convention Center treated as fact by evacuees, the media and even some of New Orleans' top officials." Indeed, Mayor C. Ray Nagin told a national television audience on "Oprah" three weeks ago of people "in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."
Journalists and officials who have reviewed the Katrina disaster blamed the inaccurate reporting in large measure on the breakdown of telephone service, which prevented dissemination of accurate reports to those most in need of the information. Race may have also played a factor.
The wild rumors filled the vacuum and seemed to gain credence with each retelling -- that an infant's body had been found in a trash can, that sharks from Lake Pontchartrain were swimming through the business district, that hundreds of bodies had been stacked in the Superdome basement.
Follow-up reporting has discredited reports of a 7-year-old being raped and murdered at the Superdome, roving bands of armed gang members attacking the helpless, and dozens of bodies being shoved into a freezer at the Convention Center.
Hyperbolic reporting spread through much of the media.
Fox News, a day before the major evacuation of the Superdome began, issued an "alert" as talk show host Alan Colmes reiterated reports of "robberies, rapes, carjackings, riots and murder. Violent gangs are roaming the streets at night, hidden by the cover of darkness."
The Los Angeles Times adopted a breathless tone the next day in its lead news story, reporting that National Guard troops "took positions on rooftops, scanning for snipers and armed mobs as seething crowds of refugees milled below, desperate to flee. Gunfire crackled in the distance."
All of these reports complete fabrications that hurt the rescue effort and further demonized the mostly poor black residents that played into racist lies. And Mayor Nagin and the Chief of Police gave that sick stuff credibility.
Only a ten year sentence, yes, I agree that is outrageous, a 25 year sentence would have been much better, but a life sentence would have been deserved. The statement "He was just being another politician" is why we as a country are in the situation we are in. Obama is not the problem, the problem is the people that voted for him. A voter's intelligence will never be tested, but if there was such a requirement, we as a country might be better off.
Sad that Bush had to take a lot of blame for Katrina because of this clown.
No, that was for appointing Brownie
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