Indictment posted below.
New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell was indicted by a federal grand jury on public corruption charges. The Justice Department will hold a press conference this afternoon.
The grand jury indicted Cantrell for conspiracy, wire fraud (9), conspiracy to obstruct justice, false statements, false declaration before grand jury (2) and obstruction of justice.
The nutshell version is Cantrell carried on a relationship with her bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, at taxpayer expense. Time records were allegedly falsified. They went on 14 foreign and domestic trips together. Vappie's trips allegedly cost the taxpayers $70,000. The couple spent a great deal of personal time at a city-owned apartment. Whatsapp messages were deleted when the media inquired about the apartment. Cantrell allegedly destroyed or withheld Whatsapp messages after subpoenaed by the grand jury. Vappie has been indicted as well. Earlier post about Vappie indictment.
The Crescent City potentate even sought a protection order against a private citizen who took pictures of Cantrell and Vappie when they were in public together.
The U.S. Attorney announced the indictment at a press conference that is posted below.
12 comments:
Surprise!
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It will be interesting to see how the Randy Ferrell indcitment ties in (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/inspector-indicted-fraudulent-permitting-and-corruption-scheme)
Shouldn’t have crossed Richard’s Disposal. They got the dirt!
New Orleans and public corruption!? Say it ain’t so! You can’t swing a dead cat in New Orleans without hitting a corrupt politician.
Cries of racism in 3, 2, 1.
its about freakin time.
She will not be bullied by the DOJ.
All of these mayors should just report to prison until they are cleared by DoJ at this point.
Latoya the Destroya......
The Feds better go hard in court and set some examples... or else this will become the norm rather than the exception.
FBI busting Blue City officials. Will Lil Choke drop the dime on Jody Owens to reduce his own sentence in plea deal? Aren't there other bribes and crimes for the disgraced duo? Which head makes the best trophy? Probably Owens who says to the FBI undercover: "This is how we've done this before".
The Feds won't be need to go hard in court.
Their investigations and indictments already went hard.
Latoya will make a deal.
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