While in office, Mayor Ray Nagin accepted a $50,000 payoff and shipments of free granite from city vendor Frank Fradella, and after leaving City Hall, he became a highly paid consultant to Fradella, ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's corruption saga saw its final player leave the stage Wednesday, as former contractor Frank Fradella was sentenced to serve one year in prison for paying Nagin ...

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.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - When Hurricane Katrina’s winds battered New Orleans and the levees failed, Ray Nagin was the city’s mayor. Nine years later, when Nagin was no longer mayor, a federal jury ...

Former Mayor Ray Nagin and the corruption surrounding his office in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is the focus of the season-premiere episode of CNBC's "American Greed" series debuting Thursday night.

Verne Kennedy was trying to reach Ray Nagin in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but couldn’t get through. During the surreal, chaotic week following the storm, he saw and heard the mayor appearing ...

He was charged with bribery, honest service wire fraud, money laundering. Jan. 18, 2013— -- Federal prosecutors today announced a 21-count indictment against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, ...

Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who portrayed himself as a straight-talking anti-politician determined to clean up the city’s notoriously corrupt culture, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in ...

Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that New Orleans would be a “chocolate” city once more and asserted that “God was mad at America.” “I said ...

NASA engineer Nagin Cox lives on Earth but works on Mars time, where days are longer and time works differently. Her work with the rovers has entirely changed the way she thinks about time on Earth.

A federal jury has found Ray Nagin guilty of bribery and fraud. The former New Orleans mayor, 57, was accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, in an indictment that ...