NEW ORLEANS – Federal prosecutors rested their corruption case Wednesday against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, leaving it to defense lawyers to counter five days of testimony from more than two ...

Nagin, 56, is charged with a sweeping conspiracy count that includes 59 overt acts, including taking payoffs totaling at least $235,000, not including free granite deliveries that our sources say were ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin enters Federal Court in for jury selection and possible opening arguments for his corruption trial in New Orleans, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Nagin is charged with ...

Former News Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, best remembered for his impassioned pleas for help after the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina, was convicted today of accepting bribes in exchange for helping ...

May 6, 2002: Ray Nagin becomes 60th mayor of New Orleans. Greg Meffert named chief technology officer. Nov. 27, 2002: Nagin's oldest son, Jeremy, 18, arrested in New York City and charged with grand ...

The corruption case against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the city’s chief executive when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, was in the hands of jurors today after prosecutors said they had ...

A year after former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted on public corruption charges, his federal trial is now in full swing. Day seven's action starts up at 9 a.m. Be sure to refresh this page ...

Sources tell the WDSU I-Team that Ray Nagin’s defense team has issued a dozen subpoenas and will issue three to five more tomorrow.Watch reportThe first subpoenas were issued last week, informing ...

Ray Nagin rose to American political fame in swift, albeit uncensored, fashion -- as the New Orleans mayor who publicly trashed and pleaded with President George W. Bush to save his city in the ...

, who is on trial on charges that he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes from city contractors in exchange for lucrative city work and committed tax fraud by failing to report ...

The fact that former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was even elected shows how much New Orleans wanted someone different. He came into politics from corporate America with no experience in government.

Nagin was the public face of post-Katrina New Orleans He%27s convicted on 20 of 21 corruption charges New Orleans residents said he was an upright%2C albeit ineffective%2C leader The former mayor of ...