Clarence Ray Nagin Jr aka Ray Nagin, was the 60th Mayor of New Orleans, LA from 2002 to 2010.Three years after his re-election to a second term in 2009, accusations of the mayor using his public office to gain benefits from local companies supplying the city surfaced. The court was told that Ray Nagin accepted more than $500,000 in bribes in the form of monies, lavish vacation trips and even truckloads of free granite for his son’s granite countertop business, from several entrepreneurs in exchange for the mayor’s support of several city contracts that dealt with hurricane Katrina recovery projects that were worth millions of dollars. Prosecutors also argued that Mr. Nagin spent several years covering up his criminal wrongdoings which brought great damage to the entire community, and furthermore they added, his own testimony during the two-week …show more content…
Attorney Matthew Coman. In January 2014, a jury found him guilty of 20 of 21 charges in the indictment which encompassed bribery, conspiracy to commit fraud, extortion, wire fraud, money laundering, as well as filing fraudulent tax returns . Judge Ginger Berrigan stated, right before sentencing the former mayor that she would in this case "downwardly depart from guidelines" and she added that "sentencing imposed should reflect Nagin's ability to harm the public again." On July 9, 2014, Mr. Ray Nagin was sentenced to 10-year in a federal facility located at the East Texas-Arkansas border, called the Federal Correctional Institution Texarkana, a low-security prison with an adjacent minimum-security camp, and ordered to pay $585,000 in forfeiture and restitution as well. He is currently listed on the website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as inmate Number 32751-034 and the earliest possible date for his release is May 25, 2023