"New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted by a federal grand jury, becoming the first mayor to face federal charges while still in office."
Her police oficer bodyguard went with her on many official trips, defrauding taxpayers, then attempting to hide this from investigators.
Louisiana has always had a serious corruption problem. The Slaughterhouse Cases after the Civil War that did so much damage to 14th Amendment case law for almost a century seemed to have been a consequence of a monopoly granted by the Louisiana Legislature.
I blame the heritage of napoleonic laws, myself.
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