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7:00 am
Wed December 5, 2012

Businessman Expected To Plead Guilty To Bribery During Nagin Administration

Plea expected in federal court.

A businessman is expected to plead guilty later today in federal court to bribery charges. The case is widely believed to involve former Mayor Ray Nagin.

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New Orleans Corruption
10:19 am
Thu June 28, 2012

Businessman Linked to Nagin Pleads Guilty

A Louisiana businessman linked to a federal probe of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he paid a $50,000 bribe to a former city official.

Authorities haven't identified the official Frank Fradella allegedly conspired to bribe. 

New Orleans Corruption
9:26 am
Wed June 27, 2012

Businessman Linked to Nagin to Plead Guilty

The lawyer for a businessman linked to a corruption probe of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said his client expects to plead guilty in federal court to conspiring to bribe a former New Orleans official.

Randy Smith, lawyer for Frank Fradella, wouldn't name the ex-official. A two-count bill of information filed Tuesday against Fradella identifies the official only as "public official A" and that he served the city from May 2002 to May 2010 — a period that coincides with Nagin's tenure.

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Hurricane Katrina
1:22 pm
Thu August 26, 2010

Remembering The Eye Of The Storm

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ALLISON KEYES, host:

I'm Allison Keyes, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Michel Martin is away.

Five years ago today, New Orleans was bracing itself for what would become one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Some were injured during the storm, but many more died in the hours and in the days afterward waiting for help to arrive. We'll talk with the much criticized and much praised former mayor of New Orleans in a minute. That, of course, is Ray Nagin.

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WWNO News Reports
9:54 am
Fri March 5, 2010

Nagin Testifies in DC about Stafford Act

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is testifying in Washington, D.C. for changes in the way the federal government responds to a disaster.

Mayor Nagin has testified before Congress more than a dozen times since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He's currently chairman of the U.S. Conference of Mayors task force on reforming the Stafford Act.

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