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Ray Nagin Corruption Trial Starts Monday

Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin goes on trial tomorrow on 21 charges of bribery, honest services wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy and filing false tax returns. Essentially, he's charged with accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for granting lucrative city contracts,

As is typical in these cases, the Government's witnesses include plenty of wrongdoers singing for their supper.

NOLA.com's live trial coverage page is here.

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    Some places are a lot dirtier (none / 0) (#1)
    by Mikado Cat on Mon Jan 27, 2014 at 01:03:34 PM EST
    than others, but doesn't seem like corrupt politicians are rare.

    Are more higher level cases being brought to trial, or am I just noticing it more?

    I'm skeptical ... (none / 0) (#2)
    by Robot Porter on Mon Jan 27, 2014 at 01:53