biatch set him up ?

Well duh. That entire city runs on favors and such. Corruption is part of the charm. I'd be surprised if he didn't accept 'gifts'.

He seems like a nice guy.

namatad: I am always amazed at these sources. pretty certain that they are breaking the law when they talk to the press.
why are they not searched for and charged??

Depends on the source. If it was a witness who was interviewed by the FBI or grand jury then they are under no obligation to keep their mouth shut. If it was a juror, they'd be breaking the law. If it was an FBI agent then they might be in trouble, but only if the leak was unapproved.

Remember sometimes the police leak this kind of thing on purpose. Often they want everything kept quiet until the investigation is complete, so the target doesn't have time to destroy evidence. However sometimes they want it leaked, may make the target panic and do something stupid.

He was probably happy that Katrina came, it washed away all the records and informantS

AbbeySomeone: Well duh. That entire city runs on favors and such. Corruption is part of the charm. I'd be surprised if he didn't accept 'gifts'.

I'm also under the belief that corruption shakedowns are part of the process as well. What a great way for the government to absolve themselves from pension and retirement responsibilities.

I guess they're done investigating George Bush?

Oh, yeah: IOKIYAR.

Is this for his vagina-friendliness?

Corruption in New Orleans? No way!

I lived there and had plenty of friends who were arrested and all they had to do to make sure that the criminal record disappeared forever was to pay enough money to their lawyer.

/Tulane!

Nothing can compare to letting ~1K people die. Not only did he screw up massively beforehand, he then spent days sobbing non-stop and doing nothing. Eventually he pulled himself together enough to complain about a lack of outside help.

That voters re-elected him makes keeping Marion Barry look like a genius move.

/DC native

Not just New Orleans, but Vanilla suburbs also chalk full of corruption. St. Tammany's incompetent assessor, Jefferson Parish CAO and President federally indicted on corruption!
Let's not even mention $ Bill Jefferson and family values David Vitter (R-ed Light District).

Thank God for the people who live here that make this city great.

Politicians treat us like cheerios in a toilet . . .

He is being charged with drowning hundreds of city school buses.

It would be news if a NoLa mayor or cop WASN'T under investigation. It wasn't that that long ago that the FBI was coming into precinct stations and arresting the entire shift.

He can just blame Bush and all the Farktards can hold water for him.


Just like Katrina!

Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

Not in NOLA. If we sent the money, it'd be diverted by the politicians into all sorts of pet projects (vacations, hookers, and blow being their favorites) and basically wasted. You could probably get more work done by sending the money to Haiti.

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

There's a fix for stupid?

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

Well 3/5ths of 1500 is only 900 and being less than 1k it really can't be counted as a major tragedy.

Roy_G_Biv: Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

There's a fix for stupid?

Yes, but it involves an educated, thoughtful and informed voting population, so the chances of a fix manifesting are approaching zero.

Roy_G_Biv: Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

There's a fix for stupid?

No, there isn't. That's why we need to avoid the opportunity for stupidity to arise in the first place.

Big Man On Campus: Yes, but it involves an educated, thoughtful and informed voting population, so the chances of a fix manifesting are approaching zero.

Or not living in a city that's below sea-level. Or if you do, listening to evacuation orders. Or maybe having a plan to survive that doesn't involve a plastic bin full of Heineken.

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

There's a fix for hurricanes?

MetryPapi: Not just New Orleans, but Vanilla suburbs also chalk full of corruption. St. Tammany's incompetent assessor, Jefferson Parish CAO and President federally indicted on corruption!
Let's not even mention $ Bill Jefferson and family values David Vitter (R-ed Light District).

Thank God for the people who live here that make this city great.

Politicians treat us like cheerios in a toilet . . .


Totally offtopic but I plan to use this phrase at every available opportunity I get from now on

Gracias

This must mean he is in no way connected with Operation Fast and Furious.

/relieved
//was really worried

is subby high, or are they projecting so hard that 16mm film is about to come spewing out of ther butt?

I am born and raised in or within 1 mile of New Orleans for my entire life. I can confirm that the previous century of mayoral administrations were corrupt beyond measure. I have personal experience being blocked from doing business in New Orleans due to blatant corruption.


The current Mayor Mitch Landrieu might, maybe, could just be legit. I have to say I'm impressed by his taking the initiative to call in the FBI and other outside investigative agencies to clean and restaff the city leadership, and police ranks.

He's clean now, but II know enough about our city to know that even good intentioned individuals become corrupted. If Mayor Landrieu is corrupted, maybe he'll channel Huey Long's style, and actually use corrupt means to decent and humane ends.
Governor Huey Long played the corruption game like a pro, but not necessarily in the way people portray him. He was working within a corrupt system, using it to further some rather humane and decent causes. Such as feeding the poor, (chicken in every pot) expanding civil liberties where possible (considering the times) for the non-white skinned peoples, building massive infrastructure projects (a single mile of paved road in every town gave every small town a taste of how good it is, and insisted to have more), and generally dismanteling the good-ole boys network of "old money" politics, which has not resurfaced sense.

Of course, we are Southerners, so we vote against our self interests, and who knows how long Landrieu's reforms will go on, or if the corruption will ever stop.

shanrick: Nagin, please.

Came to say that.

/thanks
//surprised it took that long

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

Let's declare a war on weather.

ThrobblefootSpectre: Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

There's a fix for hurricanes?

No, but there WAS a fix for the hurricane highway. Keeping it open saved money dontchaknow?

thelordofcheese:

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

Let's declare a war on weather.

I have a better idea. Let's not only ignore weather, let's fight any projections about weather.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

AbbeySomeone: Well duh. That entire city runs on favors and such. Corruption is part of the charm. I'd be surprised if he didn't accept 'gifts'.

Next FBI investigation: rumors of gambling and prostitution out in the Nevada desert.

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

Weather? City incompetence? The sea-level?

You build a city, in a bowl, near the coast between a hurricane prone gulf and a giant lake and it's going to flood from time to time.

Actually arresting Nagin and preventing him from ever serving in government again would go a long way towards fixing the cause of death.

So was John Lennon and Martin Luther King. What's your point?

Not saying this guy is like them at all, but simply being investigated by the FBI means nothing. In fact it could almost be taken as a sign you're doing something right.

Maybe they will finally get this Black Racist....him wanting to turn New Orleans into a Chocolate City

Can you imagine the derp you would get from the race groups if a white mayor said he wanted to turn his city into a "Vanilla City"?? The Fark Left Derps would have sent whitey mayor to UN for War Crimes trial

But, Ray The Drowning Mayor gets a pass...got a pass on his farked up Hurricane Katrina...and probably will get a pass on this too

watson.t.hamster: Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Isn't it disturbing that we had a natural disaster 6.5 years ago that killed 1,500 people and we haven't fixed what caused their death?

Weather? City incompetence? The sea-level?

You build a city, in a bowl, near the coast between a hurricane prone gulf and a giant lake and it's going to flood from time to time.

Then carve a path from the water to the city's edge = getting seriously fuct when a hurricane does hit. Hurricane highway, look it up.
It's nothing serious, just business. Potential dead folks or BP profits?
Guess we learned which was more important.

Nagin is scum (like all politicians, but worse). He hired his brother-in-law to install "crime cameras" throughout the city. Few ever worked. A very close friend of mine was walking his dog in the Irish Channel and 2 thugs put so many bullet holes in him that he had to be cremated. That was to steal his puppy.

It happened directly under ... a non-working crime camera.

After Nagin got re-elected, he moved his wife & fatass daughter to Houston. How's that for turning your back on the city? What kind of message does that send?

The Feds need to put him away, but he may be too slick.

Dedmon: building massive infrastructure projects (a single mile of paved road in every town gave every small town a taste of how good it is

If only he would've made his namesake bridge less narrow.