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Nagin Sentencing Set For June

Franklin Reyes
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AP
Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin.

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin will be on home detention for several weeks. The federal court set June 11 for his sentencing for public corruption.

Legal analysts are saying Ray Nagin is facing as much as 20 years for his 20 convictions of public corruption. Several witnesses who testified against him are facing much less. They agreed to plead guilty in exchange for their testimony.

One who didn’t take a plea bargain — businessman Mark St. Pierre — is serving more than 17 years for paying Nagin’s travel and personal expenses.

University of New Orleans political science professor Ed Chervenak says the end of the Nagin trial means the public will now concentrate on the future of New Orleans.

“I really do think that people have kind of put it in their rear-view mirror," Chervenak said. "People are just going to put that behind them and they’re going to move forward.” 

Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who was elected after Nagin served his two terms, says he’s concentrating on “restoring the public’s trust in government.”

Eileen is a news reporter and producer for WWNO. She researches, reports and produces the local daily news items. Eileen relocated to New Orleans in 2008 after working as a writer and producer with the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. for seven years.

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