Like Barack Hussein Obama, Ray Negin, disgraced
black former mayor of New Orleans, has used racial division for self-promotion
and to absolve himself from all guilt or responsibility. You know the scheme: First, use race to get elected and to stay in
office as long as the office profits you; second, meet and ingratiate yourself
to the power brokers within and outside your community; third, make self-enriching deals with
the power brokers; fourth, use race to attack anyone who questions you or your
actions; and finally, retire fully funded by your community and become a lobbyist
and motivational speaker for any big bucks agency who will have you. Although alleging concern for his people, a race manipulator
really only has concern for his self.
You
surely recall that on January 16, 2006 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Mayor
Ray Negin screeched, "We as black people, it's time, it's time for us to
come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should
be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying Uptown or
wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day…[New Orleans]
will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to
be." By a chocolate New Orleans he,
of course, meant a city with a majority black population and black power
structure. He knew that appealing to
God’s divine will would be well received by the black electorate.
The alleged lover of his own people, however, was
not so kind to Hispanics. On October 11,
2005, in a meeting with local small business owners, Ray Negin boasted that he
would ensure that “New Orleans is not
overrun by Mexican workers” who had been helping rebuild the flood-ravaged city. The business people, as
expected, applauded heartily. And on
June 20,2011, in an interview with newsman Matt Lauer, Negin stated that race
“played in just about every aspect of this disaster,” meaning that the
flood would have been handled much better if New Orleans had been a “vanilla
city.” He also blamed Louisiana Governor
Kathleen Blanco and President George W. Bush for the Katrina disaster when, in
fact, it was he, Negin, who failed to follow advice to provide transportation
for evacuation of the city’s residents.
Ray
Negin did need someone from outside the city to run things. We learned yesterday, February 12, 2014, that he had been very
busy during his mayoralty. He had people
to meet and things to do in order to enrich his self and to cover-up his
crimes. Those crimes and the verdicts, listed
below, are directly quoted from thecount.com.
Realize that these are only the crimes for which prosecutors had
sufficient evidence to bring Negin to trial.
Imagine how many other crimes there were.
Count
1: Conspiracy – Guilty
The
charge: Creating, through a variety of bribes and kickbacks, “a scheme and
artifice to defraud” the residents of New Orleans of his honest services as a
public official. Many of the individual elements of this scheme make up the
other 20 crimes with which Nagin was charged.
Count
2: Bribery – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting $60,000 from the three principals of Three Fold Consulting,
an engineering firm, in exchange for special treatment.
Count
3: Bribery – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting a $2,500 bribe from Rodney Williams, a principal in Three
Fold Consulting, in exchange for favorable treatment.
Count
4: Bribery – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting a shipment of granite from Frank Fradella’s company, Home
Solutions, in exchange for favorable treatment.
Count
5: Bribery – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting a $50,000 bribe from Frank Fradella’s company, Home
Solutions, in exchange for favorable treatment.
Maximum prison term: 10 years
Count
6: Bribery – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting a second shipment of granite from Frank Fradella’s company,
Home Solutions, in exchange for favorable treatment.
Count
7: Bribery – Not Guilty
The
charge: Accepting a $10,000 bribe arranged by Rodney Williams, a principal in
Three Fold Consultants.
Count
8: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
9: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
10: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
11: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
12: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
13: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
14: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
15: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
16: Wire Fraud – Guilty
The
charge: Accepting, via interstate wire transfer, a $12,500 check from a company
associated with Frank Fradella, ostensibly for consulting services after Nagin
left office, but really a reward for favorable treatment.
Count
17: Money Laundering Conspiracy -Guilty
The
charge: Conspiring with others to accept money derived from illegal activity,
i.e. bribes, and transferring those proceeds through the financial system.
Count
18: Filing a false tax return – Guilty
The
charge: Misstating income on his 2005 tax return.
Count
19: Filing a false tax return – Guilty
The
charge: Misstating income on his 2006 tax return
Count
20: Filing a false tax return – Guilty
The
charge: Misstating income on his 2007 tax return.
Count
21: Filing a false tax return – Guilty
The
charge: Misstating income on his 2008 tax return.
