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1. sentenced to ten yrs...

EW ORLEANS —Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, the businessman-turned-politician who became the worldwide face of the city after Hurricane Katrina, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.

Nagin, 58, was ordered to report to federal prison Sept. 8. Nagin, also ordered to pay restitution of $82,000, was found guilty Feb. 12 of fraud, bribery and related charges involving crimes that took place before and after Katrina devastated the city in August 2005.

Nagin, based on sentencing guidelines, had faced a possible sentence of 12 to 30 years.

A jury convicted Nagin of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes -- money, free vacation trips and truckloads of free granite for his family business -- from businessmen who wanted work from the city or Nagin's support for various hurricane recovery projects.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/09/ray-nagin-new-orleans-mayor-sentencing/12397415/

[pinto]

2. They added a bit -

(Reuters) - Disgraced former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison on corruption charges.

A jury in February found Nagin guilty of charges that include bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and tax evasion, all in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

(Reporting by Kathy Finn, writing by Jonathan Kaminsky; Editing by Scott Malone)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/09/us-usa-neworleans-mayor-sentence-idUSKBN0FE1RD20140709

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I'm sure Faux News will put an (R) after his name. By mistake of course............ (crikets)

[IronGate]

4. Huh?

That doesn't make any sense.
Why would Faux put an R by his name?
They won't, what they'll do is trumpet the fact that he's a corrupt Democrat and try to associate him with all Democrats.
That's just the way they are.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Whooooosh! I'm sure most everyone else got the reference. nt

[IronGate]

7. Well if you would,

please explain it to me.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. Sure. Duke Cunningham, Larry Craig, Mark Sanford, Mark Foley and a bunch others were shown

with a (D) after their names when they got busted in one scandal or another. Now, they've never made the same mistake of labeling a corrupt Democrat as an (R). Which I'm sure it's just a coincidence. hence my sarcastic comment.

[IronGate]

11. My bad.

I get it now.
Thanks.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Any time. I forget not everyone necessarily carries around the same amount of useless information

as I do.

[Mnemosyne]

6. Faux is known for turning R's into D's when any scandal arises. Happens often. nt

[IronGate]

8. True, but Nagin is a Democrat, not a republican. nt.

[Mnemosyne]

10. I believe it was a joke. nt

[IronGate]

12. Yeah, that was explained to me.

Thanks.

[Mnemosyne]

14. Things are sometimes very subtle here. nt