Thursday, February 13, 2014

Chocolate City Mayor: Guilty on 20 of 21 Counts

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.  

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