The wife of Ray Nagin defended her husband in a letter to Judge Ginger Berrigan, who will announce a sentence for the former New Orleans mayor on Wednesday.Seletha Nagin didn't ask for mercy; she ...

The attorney for convicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has filed paperwork seeking to withdraw from the case.Robert Jenkins has represented Nagin through the years-long trial, but likely won't ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's memory wasn't so good when it came to questions about private jet travel or his dealings on a Home Depot development plan, a federal agent testified Wednesday as ...

But Home Depot wanted no part of such an agreement. And the retailer had an ally in Mayor Ray Nagin, who, as it turned out, also wanted something from Home Depot: a steady supply of work for Stone Age ...

Former News Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, best remembered for his impassioned pleas for help after the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina, was convicted today of accepting bribes in exchange for helping ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $84,264 in restitution. Nagin was already forced to forfeit more than $500,000 in May. Nagin, 58, was ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted on federal bribery, money laundering and other corruption charges in 2014, has completed his 10-year sentence and is asking a ...

The fact that former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was even elected shows how much New Orleans wanted someone different. He came into politics from corporate America with no experience in government.

Former Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted on 20 of 21 federal charges in February, was sentenced this morning to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $84,000 in restitution. The sentence was ...

Newly re-elected Mayor Ray Nagin immediately began trying to mend ties with political opponents and crucial leaders on Sunday as he looked ahead to another four years to oversee reconstruction of this ...