I guess he got off his ass and got something done. Maybe not the right thing, but something

This guy couldn't prepare his people for a category 5 hurricaine effectively, but he could act in a corrupt fashion pretty effectively. What a suprise...

Perhaps not that effective...HE DID get caught...Just sayin...

:-)

Remember they had 5 days warning that a class 5 hurricane was coming, and did nothing. They got what they deserved. If you tell me a class 5 hurricane is coming my way, I will crawl to get out. I have been in 2 typhoons in the South Seas and saw how power full they were.

Nagin? Accused of stealing? Tell me it ain't so......... the man has done wonders keeping New Orleans a "chocolate city"............

"will be a majority African-American city because this was what God wants it to be" - R.Nagin

Good to see no RACISM there...........

They're all corrupt. I live in Central NJ. Our Mayor here in my Twp. "John Bencivengo" was just indicted for corruption.

I live in the suburbs of the city of Trenton. (Way outside in the woods) and the Mayor "Tony Mack" was just indicted also along with his brother. Amazing man.

Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile....

the next chocolate city he will see is prison !

This is only more proof that money and power corrupts... Special interest lobby's, and campaign fund raising, all this needs to be changed...

We need to have back a government that works for the people not working for those that have the most money to give a Politician...

Campaign reform needs to be done over, from local to state wide to federal... There should not be this billions of dollars raised and given for law makers (Law breakers) to get elected...

In South Dakota, a Congresswoman (Kristi Noehm) was elected to the House while she had TWO outstanding arrest warrants on the books. She just got reelected for 2 more years after it was shown that last year she attended the House only 8 times during the year and missed over 90% of her committee meetings. Go figure...

Those east coast mayors getting money for Sandy better read this a go back to their drawing boards!

We all know damm well every single one of them are CROOKS..that's why people want to be politicans!

Surprise, surprise, surprise! Seems like whereever Federal dollars are concerned, corruption runs rampant. This guy was a complete fool if he thought for 1 minute that he would get away with it. The mills of justice may work EXCEEDINGLY SLOW, but they work oh so exceedingly well.

Or... don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Hope he has to repay every penny.

"Nagin has largely steered clear of the political arena since he left office. On his Twitter account, he describes his current occupations as author, public speaker and "green energy entrepreneur." "

In other words....I sucked all the Federal Katrina Money I could to line my pockets.....Hmmmm.....Now where can I get me some more ???....Well, lookie here.....they be shoveling "GREEN ENEGRY" BUCKS without even checking where it's going.....I gots to get me some of that....

"He wrote a self-published memoir called "Katrina's Secrets: Storms After the Storm." "

That's because No Publisher was even remotely interested in Nagin's version....Chocolate Fiction

Never Stop Asking Questions

If only the Party of No would hold career criminals such as Dick Cheney accountable for his (and so many others) crimes against Humanity.

Can you folks ever stick to the topic at hand? This is NOT about Cheney, it's about a corrupt politician who spread lies about those trying to help him in order to gin up votes from no nothing supporters, his arrogance in stealing much needed money from them. Also, see below.

Riverboy21 - If, as you appear to assume, Cheney and Bush used false evidence to pull the US into an unjust war, then Bush is has a far superior intellect than every Democrat in the House and Senate who voted for the war. This man, who's intelligence is held is such low esteem by the liberals, must have been smart enough to fool all of these brilliant pols (including Kerry, Clinton and the rest who voted for the war before they voted against it) into believing the Intel provided. Also, since it was the exact same Intel Bill Clinton used to bomb Iraq during his impeachment, you must also believe him to be a war criminal. You just can NOT have it both ways.

By the way, Bush followed the rules before committing troops to combat. He went to the Senate to get their permission, so you must also hold the Democrats who voted FOR the war accountable. Unlike the current President who rules by executive order, Bush followed the rules. If you have a problem with this, change the constitution.

Look it up for yourselves guys, Nagin was a Republican most of his life.

"More controversially, Nagin had actually been a registered Republican for most of his adult life, switching to the Democrats shortly before seeking office, for which his candidacy was branded as opportunistic in the solidly Democrat city. Nagin was, at that time, a known Bush supporter, having contributed to the president’s campaign"

http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/new_orleans_mayor.html

Barry and Eric are not going to be happy over this.

Never Stop Asking Questions - I'm a Liberal and I hold Nagin fully accountable.

So when are you going to hold Dictator Obama fully accountable for:

Inflaming the over 1.5 Billion Islamic Believers to Violence against the Great Satan (US) with his Reelection Campaign "Osama Bin Laden is Dead, GM is Alive". With the over 1.5 Billion Islamic Believers Worldwide responding with "Obama, Obama, We Are All Osama"; as Osama Bin Laden is their Holy Warrior of Islam Superstar.

So the "Libyan Rebels" that went to Libya to Murder US Ally President Gaddaffi the Collaborator to the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers as supported by President Obama of Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), etc. become Ansar Al Shariah to instate and protect Fundamentalist Islam at Libya. Ansar Al Shariah in response to President Obama's "Osama Bin Laden is Dead, GM is Alive" plan to attack the US Consulate at Benghazi (located close to them at Benghazi, as the location they started at to seize the Libyan Weapons Depots to then attack Algeria, Mali, and the rest of Africa) on the date of their Osama Bin Laden, Holy Warrior of Islam's Greatest Defeat of the Great Satan (US) 9/11.

President Obama as Commander in Chief ILLEGALLY Orders the US Military in violation of the US Law that Restricts and Limits his Presidential War Powers, 1973 War Powers Resolution (Act) to attack US Ally Libya. This is Illegal as no US Law, and Unfunded as no US Congressional Appropriations, like President Clinton and President Bush had to cover their arses pertaining to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Candidate Obama violated the US Law, McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act since before the 2008 Elections, as filed by then Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton. And continued to do so to keep his 2008 Presidential Election Campaign Offices open Nationwide until his 2012 Reelection, now name changed (still needed lots of funding, Billions per year from Corporations) to his current "Action Committees" to push his current "Agenda".

Marty-3578909 ...(#2.13)..."In South Dakota, a Congresswoman (Kristi Noehm)" ...Blah, blah, blah

At least spell her name right...Kristi Noem....It's OK, cause she is Samokin' Hot.....even the Huf-n-Puf Post says so....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/kristi-noem-hottest-freshman-in-congress_n_813000.html#s229211

While Debbie-Wasserman-Shultz is the Democrats Pin-Up girl this year....taking the title from Pelosi...

Marty-3578909 - Yeah, for not paying a seat belt violation fine. Hardly what I would call a world class criminal. All politicians should limit their "corruptness" to something so stupid and trivial.

Now - back on topic....

So your argument Bob is that Bush is too dumb to fake evidence? Great argument. I'm assuming nothing Bob, tell me where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction? I only stated they were never found, and the evidence that was used to propell us to war turned out to be fake or inaccurate. They found that objects in the pictures were drainage pipes loaded onto the backs of trucks. United States, British, Italian, and UN agencies all investigated the dossier in which Sadam was supposedly trying to buy uranium in Africa, all agencies found that the dossier was a forgery, including the United States. These are cold, hard, facts. The only assumption, was by the administration at the time assuming there was weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Go figure, Nagin a crook! Who would have imagined that?

@Just Wrong

You have an appropriate nickname because YOU ARE just wrong. How many bankers and Wall Street folk have gone to jail for the housing crisis? How many mortgage company executives? You must be a lawyer.

The justice system is this country is a laughing stock. The checks and balances that are supposed to keep the 3 branches of government in line are checking nothing and weighted toward the 1%. You have to have lived under a rock for the last 40 yrs not to know that.

Hey Bobby Jindal...... look out, you"re next.

congratulations david, that is quite possibly the stupidest post of the day.... you think iraqis and afghanis might be just a bit pissed off that the "great satan" killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in two (still raging) unprovoked "wars", to revenge the 9/11 bombing by one osama bin laden. (who, by the way they failed to catch, then announced: "oh, well, it doesnt matter, anyway)? or do you just listen to rush, sean, bill-o and the nitwits at faux? by the way, do you think it was a coincidence that bush-cheney saw their approval ratings improve from under 20% on 9/10/11 to 90% on 9/12?

Huh, So it's still GW's fault for Katrina? Not a incompetent Democrat mayor or an Incompetent Democrat Governor.

I'm shocked, just shocked i say:-) New Orleans is trying to be like Chicago and they aren't too far behind. Used to live close to there and saw some "interesting" stuff.

Dear Bob-304573,

I really wish people like you would wake up. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, I went to Iraq believing in the cause, just like the Senate believed in the cause. Sure bush followed the rules and covered all his bases, he provided the senate with a plethora of evidence, and based on that evidence the senate decided to vote us into war. The number of casualties from the Iraq war doesn't do justice to the horrors that occured, and when I see people like you posting about semantics to defend bush(example: "He went to the Senate to get their permission"), it makes me truly sick and stirs up this internal struggle in myself all over again. Yes he sure did go to the senate with a bag full of evidence.... that turned out to be 100% false.

Surprise - Surprise another crooked elected official who just happens to be a Democrat.

We need to keep the books balanced, now lets expose another crooked elected official, this time that just happens to be a Republican.

Those assumptions that they had WMD fooled other countries' intelligence too. That info was also supported by top Dems including, Clinton, Kerry and many more. Both parties AND other countries relied on those intelligence reports, which came from more than our own intelligence sources.

The Iraqis that were found out to be lying about it were doing so to get rid of Saddam. They admitted so much later.

I wasn't for going in there, but i don't find it a stretch to believe he had WMD. After all he had used it before on his own people and he didn't strike me as the kind of guy to all of a sudden play nice for no reason. We can only guess what happened to it ..... my guess is it went to Syria and is probably some of the stockpile they have today. Yes it is known Syria has some and i would say/guess it is a good bet some of that came from Iraq.

Go figure, an actual story on MSNBC about a corrupt democrat. I guess when the indictments start flying even the media cannot save their beloved democrats anymore.

please say it isn't true.

Steve 446003, Why is it that blacks can say whatever they want,whereas any other race has to watch every word? They must be better than the rest of us, or we just could give a @!$%# less about them....not worth bring up to the level of politeness that so many others enjoy. Just confused as usual,I thought we were all created equal.

Hey Riverboy. You are all bent over bush but Obama is Commander and he is still over there. I wonder why he has not pulled out all the troops from these phoney wars. What is the Death toll under Obama? Maybe he should stop using Drones to kill Children and bring our troops home, that is what you wanted from Bush right? Why do you not hold Obama to the same standard. You Support the killing of Children with Drones when Obama is the trigger man. Baby killer.

msn, HOW come you left off the fact he is a democrat? If he was a Republican.... YOU WOULD BE NAILING HIM. Freaking ridiculous. I just wish there was FAIR reporting. Not bias

mtonepa, I never expressed my concerns on the drone strikes or Obama and the current war(which isn't in Iraq, you seem to be confused on that part), I simply responded to a poster who said something completely inaccurate. I did not bring up the subject of Bush or the Iraq war. If you must know, I agree with you 100% about how you feel on drone strikes. Stop making huge assumptions, ridiculous insults, and being overly defensive, you might find there are people out there who agree with you.

new orleans when it rains it pours...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBfqmhLfjY

msn. lsm, all of them don't know how to report...I am so glad this man is getting what is due..

He was a complete butt through the entire hurricane and now FINALLY getting what is due..

Yeeehawwwwww

Geo, i was down that direction during Katrina, had water in the house and all that good stuff. What most people don't realize is that before the feds could go in down there it had to be requested from the govenors. The Gov from Mississippi, Barber, had the request in immediately. Not so from Louisiana. The feds don't have jurisdiction to just go into a state without a request.

Blanco was Gov of LA. and wasn't timely at all. The white house actually was trying to get her to put in the proper requests and her and Nagin were a slow motion train wreck. When most people blamed the white house for being slow, hardly anyone that didn't live on the coast knew it was mostly Blanco. Thats why she didn't run again because the people in her state knew and her approval rating was about 10%.

I can remember listening to NOAA reports the levies had breached, then seeing the blunderheads on the tube hours later saying they hadn't.

Also they never issued mandatory evacs there. They did in Miss but just suggested it in LA. Very poor leadership from Blanco/Nagin.

The Black guy is always the fall guy f the feds and they racists views!!!!

The KKK government always pushes the white agenda!!!!!

Free all blacks from your prisons in America and get the F out of Africa you slave runners!!!!

This KKK government shouldn't be able to rule blacks anyway after all they have done and all they do that is evil to us!!!!

Took all of the money and the land in this country and now they are after the resources in Africa!!!!
Forget this KKK run Country and their western allies!!!!

googles go back to africa, you racsist prick!!!

As a first responder to Katrina, I got to see first hand some of the felonies that Ray Nagin and Kathlene Blanco perpetrated on the American public. First of all, it was a master plan to tank Bush. Worst of all, he let it happen. Worse than that, it was a master plan to tank the entire Republican party, worst of that, they let it happen. People had to die in order for the Democratic Party plan to go into action. People died at the hands of New Orleans officers and it was Ray Nagin who said to shoot to kill. NOPD officers did and 4 are already in federal prison for the murders they committed per Ray Nagin and the Democratic Party. As a first responder I saw resources diverted away from New Orleans in order to starve and dehydrate the refugees holding out in the Superdome. The plan was to allow in national media and show how Bush had let those people die. Nagin and Blanco cooked up that plan and it worked. If I were Bush, I would have thrown caution to the wind and landed Marine-1 right in the middle of the parking lot in front of the Superdome. I would have then told Blanco and Nagin to get bent and that the US government was nationalizing the guard and taking over the relief. That's because Blanco and Nagin did everything within their lives and power to derail, sabotage, and otherwise damage FEMA's response. They diverted national guard shipments, sent resources to far away places that had horrible logistics, put out conflicting and felonious press information, sent the NOPD on wild murderous benders to kill innocent citizens, which they did, and commit various state and federal felonies in the misappropriate of resources that lead to actual deaths of citizens at a time when those citizens needed them the most.

That sounds pretty racist of yourself also Mike Baudanza.

Googles, are you living off the money i WORK for douche bag. This GUY committed the crime you effin idiot. Go ef yourself.

So if you notice that when Gustav came along, Nagin was a whipped puppy. He had deputy US marshals standing behind him at all times. They were under order by the US attorney to arrest him if he did any of the felonies that he did with Katrina. Of course Gustav went off quite well because Blanco was out of office as a defeated pissant. Jindal was the governor by then and he showed how you get through a disaster. Too bad for many of the dead citizens of Louisiana that Jindal wasn't governor during Katrina.

He's just the tip of the iceberg ......

I had a long time friend that was administering a multibillion dollar federal program ... who was forced to leave because he wouldn't participate in the corruption, he couldn't even safely live in New Orleans, and had to be hidden in housing over a hour away ...

corruption is a accepted part of life in Louisiana ....

ya'll don't be bad mouth'n naworlen's... i'll sic a crawdaddy on ya'...

sounds like another kwame kilpatrick! dertoits famous mayor,can you say prison.

Gee I wonder why we should limit the amount of wealth people can acquire in this system called an economy that we humans created and have control over. All this stupid talk about gun control, but WTF about wealth control? Why do we allow a rigged system to exist? One that makes it easier to make more and more once you have acquired so much, and get ahead of the curve.

The system cannot supply this gain since it MUST be harder and harder to make more and more money. I am sorry call it what ever you want "burdening the successful", but it is what has to happen to have a working system. This bubble B.S. and chasing carrots does not work. The byproduct of limiting wealth is that once you have so much you stop acting like a greedy a$$ and leave some for others. You already have way more then everyone else. Even if you were limited to 10 or 20 times more that is still a HUGE amount. Anything more is F***ING GREEDY and leads to even more corruption, lying, cheating, stealing, etc., there will always be some, but we can limit it.

It was the reason for the 90% tax rate. You know the one we had until Kennedy was shot. What happened after the attempted Regan shooting? Another tax drop...gee I wonder.

I am alright not owning a full auto rifle since they waste ammo :P. It is also why most of our military does not issue fully auto M-16s or other variants.

BIG surprise. Huge. HUGE. I am shocked that this could happen in Amurrrica. Mike Land--I'm glad to hear somebody who was there speak up about the mayor and the governor and their complete ineptitude in getting help down there. BUSH let all those people die. BUSH didn't send help. BUSH BUSH BUSH. So sick of the excuses. They had warnings -- they chose to stay. The Feds can't march into a state or city without permission (although I'm not so sure about this administration). And the FABULOUS Mayor Nagin was the belle of the ball because he shoved the blame onto anybody else but himself and the entire time was laughing at the Katrina victims all the way to the bank. Oh he was working hard to protect the people of Nawlins. Whatever. It finally came back to bite him in the a**. Good. Hope he rots.

And GOOGLES--what an iota brain. Your post doesn't even deserve a response, but I can't help myself.

Racist????? He is a typical corrupt politician. Anyone who says these charges are based on Racism are racist themselves!

Eric - followed by numbers...........not you Eric - followed by NY...haha

I don't care if he was the Pope , he saw the thieving , corrupt , "I aint did it" , Bush's fault , lying , race baiting , class warfare party of the Democrats and said to himself "wow , look at all the sh!t the lefties get away with and the people that vote for them just keep on chucking money at 'em , cool"

Canis Boneheadis

JFK and LBJ got 5 million civilians killed during Vietnam , are you one of the leftist pea brains that think it didn't happen like Stalin/Mao after their "purges"?

your post is pretty weak , ergo worthless , back to the basement with you

Tired (like your posts)

NO ONE EVER paid a 90% tax rate , I challenge you to link to ANY data that proves that ANYONE ever paid a tax rate of 90%

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on charges that he used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while the city was struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

The indictment also accuses Nagin of getting free private jet and limousine services to New York from an unidentified businessman. Nagin is accused of agreeing to wave tax penalties that the businessman owed to the city on a delinquent tax bill in 2006.

The federal indictment accuses Nagin of accepting more than $160,000 in bribes and truckloads of free granite for his family business in exchange for promoting the interests of a local businessman who secured millions of dollars in city contract work after the 2005 hurricane.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, here is the 21st century personification of Liberalism/Progressivism.

Of course the limp-wristed Liberal bobbleheads will blame this on Bush, the GOP, the TEA Party, Big Bird or some other bogeymen that hide under their beds and scare them all their lives.

I predict they will demand MORE laws, rules and regulations be created to stop all this. This is the typical knee-jerk reaction the Liberal cabal has for every problem. Just like the gun violence debate, they never think anything through, they just react. Just like what that idiot Cuomo did in New York. Now even the police may have to be restricted to 7 bullet clips because he forced the law through, so he could be the first to do something, and no one read through the law before he had his photo-op faux signing ceremony.

ROTFLMAO!!!!

This is the typical Liberal symbolism over substance nonsense that they live through all their life. Just more Bread and Circuses in an effort to pretend they have a clue and know what they're doing.

They don't!

Waste, fraud, abuse and corruption are all acceptable unintended consequences of massive government expansion in the eye of the Liberal/Progressive, as long as they keep getting their free handouts. No concern for their or their children’s future, they just assume the real Americans will continue to work hard and support their welfare lifestyles.

We are a 50/50 nation. The country is roughly divided 50/50, the people that work for a living (Conservatives) verses those that vote for a living (Liberals/Progressives).

Greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what they earn, its people demanding a greater share of money that someone else has earned.

If this was a Republican or, God forbid, a TEA Party member the media would be herniating itself to get the story out. PMSNBC would be be awash with Liberal bobbleheads wetting themselves as their typical filth, anger, hate, rage and racism was flying.

It's time to end this nonsense. Liberalism/Progressivism must be stopped and all the poor lost souls must be forced back to work to provide for themselves

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin charged with Katrina-related corruption

Let this be a forewarning to Gov. Chris Piggy Christie of New Jersey.

I'm sure he is finding funds to stuff and line his piggy pockets with.

Guess he is going from his chocolate city to the pen full of chocolates.

I remember the mayor of New Orleans during Katrina. I was impressed with his outspoken criticism of FEMA and Bush. People died and suffered. I guess heroes are easily made, by the media and easily fall because, of the media. The mayor is one of many, who have gotten into trouble, in recent years. And let us not forget the Governor of Illinois, who traded his ethics for money and power, as well. Are there any politicians, who really can be a representative, for all of their constituents?

I believe in President Obama and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Elizabeth Warren the new Senator from Massachusetts and Senator Al Franken but, they are just a handful of what should be a long list of "good guys." I am 100% positive I will get flack from my list of contenders but I am sure, I would argue with your lists, too.

Why is politics so corrupt? Why do all of us continue to believe there is such a creature? I will take responsibility for not researching all the facts. I will take responsibility for being gullible. I'll even take responsibility for donating to causes, that promote my beliefs. I want to believe their are good guys out there. I want to know there is hope, for our country. Republican or Democrat, somewhere along the line, WE THE PEOPLE, have to take responsibility for our actions. Americans need to start the conversation and listen. We need to give up the extreme and childishness and start thinking of the whole. All of us, equal freedom. We need all of us to maintain the United States, working together for the greater good.

Our agenda should be a combination of rights and laws, that benefit all of us. We need balance and even more, we need ethics and morality. Americans need to help one another, so all of us can achieve our dreams.

Ray Nagin may be a fraud but we allowed him to be just that because, we are too lazy and selfish to pull together. We would have lost the Revolutionary war, had we been alive then. Instead of fighting the British, all of us, would have been complaining about Paul Revere and his bell. Oh, it's too loud. Oh, it's made of copper and the legal bells are made of silver. Paul didn't ride by my house first, so I am not going to help. Paul was so busy trying to impress the rich, he left all his tools for me too polish. Yes, we would have been that petty. We ARE that petty. This country will not be here in another century, if its citizens keep whining and blaming every problem on others.

Judy

Al Franken voted lockstep for obamacare , and all that was in it , now he wants his state waivered from the part that places a new tax on medical devices , and THAT is one of the things that your King and all of his minnions told you was going to PAY FOR THE SCAM...in other words Al Franken is a moron , not mention not funny

I won't even waste my time on the other clowns that you named , dinners ready

One more corrupt African American shamming their community, there is a large list of Democrats African Americans that use the political power to fill their pockets, the Nation Capital is full of them starting with Marion Barry , Chicago is another nest of corrupt African Americans, the sad of that is their own community continue voting for the same kind of people.

Well, just in kickbacks, about a quarter mill according to the article. Who knows what he got in cash under the table!

But we can assume he's a lousy investor too, so he'll be in the poorhouse if not dead before he gets out of prison.

John:

I am FOR United Health Care. And I believe Al Franken is more qualified to be a Senator than many. Answer this John, How much do you think you can take with you, when you die? Wealth get passed down from one generation to another but like marrying your cousin, it makes the heirs, more vulnerable and susceptible, to weakness and the inability, to see outside the box.

The arrogance of Mitt Romney is living proof, that money not earned is, money not appreciated. You have only proved my argument, the citizens of the United States, will never be able to stop the infighting and the nit picking.

You don't know: msn didn't have to identify his political party in the article; they ran his photo.

United Health Care is an insurance company..Do you mean universal healthcare? Mitt Romney earned his money and has been quite generous with it. There is weakness and inability in the wealthy, poor, middle class, etc. Besides, what does this have to do with this article?

Nagin is getting exactly what he deserves regardless of political affiliation. I am from the New Orleans area and it was so evident.

I rember clearly folks trying to point out the blatant fraud by the City Officials as well as scum bags who not only were not in New Orleans when Katrina hit but loaded up folks to collect free money. This is the voters fault for turning a blind eye to the corruption. I was called everything but a human being because I called people out and the worst perpetrater was the red cross who doled out money like it was coming out of their pockets. I have never been back to La nor will I ever give the red cross a dime of my money. Mr. Nagin needs to go to prison period. It shows just how ignorant the people of that city are.

Judy

I will give you a PO box number , just send me your money and call it a day

Tired

I see no evidence or retort on the 90% tax rate drivle , guess you will be dropping that pablum from your repertoire 'eh ?

John, I will happily send you all my mail from Publishers Clearing House. Like a typical Republican, you alwways have your hand out!

NurSilas, I would give one single Red Blood Cell to the Red Cross! People give blood and think the Red Cross bottles it up and the patients, who need it, get it for free. Little does the blood doners know, a unit of blood can be made into five different products and one unit of blood is about a thousand dollars.

Yeah John? Call and find out for yourself. And back to Ray Nagin. He did speak out against FEMA and BUSH!

riverboy - Again, you must purposely try to twist statements. My argument is not the Bush was too dumb to fake out other pols, it is the stupidity of your arguments using standard, and false, talking points. There WERE WMDs found. Since you either don't know, or it wasn't published in whatever left wing news blog you subscribe to, gas shells and biological weapons were found and destroyed. If you don't think they are WMD's, ask the Kurds and Iranians who he used them against. There was evidence of a nuclear program also. Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it isn't the truth. Also, since the current President is so hip on following UN orders, how many resolutions condemning Iraq and authorizing force were in place at the time of the war? 40 or more?

PartOfThe47PercentVets - Your arguments are specious at best. When i joined, I repeated and signed an oath. This oath included phrases stating I would "...obey the orders of the President and the officers appointed above me..." and "...that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States..." In neither of the phrases were the words "If I agree with them" included. If you felt that you could not follow the orders of the President, you violated the part where you stated that you "...take this obligation freely, with out any mental reservation or purpose of evasion..." I did not wish to sit off the coast of Iran in 79, go to Lebanon in 82, Grenada in 83, Panama in 89, Kuwait in 90, or run through minefields in the Gulf in the 90's to support the no fly zones, yet I went. More importantly, defending the Constitution is also the job of the President. If he follows the rules, as the current one seems to have trouble doing, then he IS defending it, whether you agree or not.

In both of these cases I ask again, what does it have to do with the matter at hand, which is the corruption of a Mayor? It seems that, again, serial bloggers wish to change the subject when their side is shown to be in the wrong. From morons who wish to blame everything that goes wrong on the Republicans, Tea Party, or Bush, to absolute idiots who cry "racism" the minute a person of color, and a Liberal, are said to be wrong, political discourse in this time has reached new lows.

Judy - You are right, Nagin spoke out condemning Bush and FEMA. And he did it while stealing money form those in need. While he was blaming all others for the help not arriving, he was making sure his pockets were lined. Where is YOUR condemnation of this act?

Are we going to hear from Kanye saying the Nagin hates black people? I would doubt it.

First off Bob, you are a flat out liar and here is why. Go to whitehouse.gov and read the statement they made 6 years to the day after the start of the war in which they said no WMD's have been found and it appears that Sadam had complied with the requests from the U.N. to destroy all his chemical and biological weapons. Is whitehouse.gov a good enough reference for you, or is that just a Liberal blog too? Can you point me to a legitimate resource in which they say that WMD's were found? No you can't, and that's why you probably won't even reply to this post. Also, I'm not Liberal and I don't read liberal blogs or any blog at all for that matter, I believe that bloggers and blog readers are some of the most annoying and uneducated people in existence.

Second, I didn't try to twist your statements, I never once mentioned Bush being dumb, you were the one that twisted my statement. Show me where I argued that Bush was an idiot? It was only you who said that. You acuse me of throwing around liberal blogger talking points, and the one claim I made can be backed up by going to a .gov site. Your claims can't be backed up anywhere except conservative blogger sites, so who's the blogger?

Finally, I have stated it several times, and if you read my replies before you just repeated your earlier replies to me, you would know that I did not bring this up, and it has nothing to do with the post. Some loony lefty brought it up and some wacky righty responded, both made completely incorrect statements and it was those two who I was responding to, instead of responding directly about the article. Will you read it this time or will you just state again for the 3rd time that my response doesn't have anything to do with the article. You can go ahead and do that again, I'm ready to repeat for the 5th time I was responding to two other commenters.

So let me get this straight..

A [BLANK] city mayor just got charged for corruption?!

I'm shocked. And what's the [BLANK]?

riverboy - First off, I did go to the whitehouse.gov website and searched for "WMD's", which brought uo numerous articles from the Obama Admin about how they are stopping the proliferation of these devices, but not what you said you saw. While I am not as crude as you are to call you a liar because I could not find what you said you found, but I could not locate your referenced article. And I did have respect for the content of the White House website until the current webmaster seemed to have then need to amend entries for almost every 20th century President to report how the current administration is doing what they did, but better. Now it is no better than another propaganda arm of the administration.

A WMD is classified as any weapon that has the potential for mass killing. This would include not only nuclear, but biological and chemical weapons. According to all news services, including NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, the US Military DID recover many artillery shells, some filled withchemical weapons at the start of the invasion. According to the same news services, all paragons of liberal virtue and no friend of the Bush Administrationbiological weapons were also found. And Sadam showed he hod absolutely no compulsion about using these weapons.

You complain about me calling you on bring up President Bush, so let me give you my time line. In your comment, 2.7, YOU bring up how Bush's lies cause the deaths of over 4800. In my comment 2.18, I called you on it and asking to stay on topic. You got annoyed in your comment 2.24 and continued your rants against Bush and his handling of the situation as it arose, completely ignoring my comments about how you anti-Bush folks tried to show him to be a moron yet are all up in arms about how he flummoxed the great brains of the Democrats. In my comment 2.72 I called you in your hypocrisy again. Yet in your comment 2.74 you wish to start calling names, stomping your feet and denying your complicity in this exchange. Well, if ignorance was a WMD, then look out for the next invasion.

I apologize for the lateness of my reply, as I have read how you are waiting to reply. Work soometimes keeps me from replying in a timely manner.

Maybe its also why he was complaining Bush wasn't sending cash fast enough.

"Nagin" ... hahaha... now THAT'S a loaded last name... I'm sure the bigots down in the South just LVOE having fun with his last name... Nagin reminds me of that fight scene in Me, Myself, and Irene... the one with the little black midget man and RubberFace Jim Carrey...

A person cannot be a career politician and NOT be a crook. HOW ELSE does a politician make it worth his while to have a job that does not pay as well as being in the private sector? Gotta do crooked deeds to make up the $$ difference...

So very difficult for the Associated Press to call him a "Democrat." ...Typical.

Look it up for yourselves guys, Nagin was a Republican most of his life.

"More controversially, Nagin had actually been a registered Republican for most of his adult life, switching to the Democrats shortly before seeking office, for which his candidacy was branded as opportunistic in the solidly Democrat city. Nagin was, at that time, a known Bush supporter, having contributed to the president’s campaign"

http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/new_orleans_mayor.html

Eric, you have been a DS most of your life.

THE HYSTERICAL part of this is that, with all the Katrina related corruption that actually occurred, like the millions of dollars worth of unused drinking water and the formaldehyde-infused trailers (incidentally owned and leased to the gov by a bush relative), the only guys the feds could manage to bag on actual corruption charges were these three, two of whom pleaded guilty. Another great job by the men who broguht you the "search" for whitey bulger (who may get off because he was promised immunity) and the "search" for osama bin laden (who evaded the feds for nearly 10 years). Couple questions here: were the other two corrupt officials also black? And, how do you idiots out there think that the bush administration was anything other than corrupt and incompetent? Under that administration, the Katrina response was bungled beyond all recognition, and the number one and number two characters on the "most wanted list" roamed the globe freely for 8 years despite billions being spent to "find" them.

Thanks Eric - now I understand why the mayor blamed the hurricane on the gays - it was part of his republican DNA.

I do love it when an anti-gay politician gets knocked off his moral high horse.

Yeah Spiderman, bigots ONLY live in the south. LOOK HERE you f%%%king piece of crap. There are bigots everywhere... and guess what, not all of them are white. news flash... racism is everywhere. People like you need to learn to shut the F%%% up. Steroetyping piece of trash.

you don't know....

calm the fck down!!!!!!!!

do you people suppose it would be possible to get through a discussion without turning on each other? Or bringing up Bush; neither of which has anything to do with the present topic.

The Ex-mayor is the typical corrupt politician. For anyone to says it was because he was once a Republican, is a hypocritical Fool!

The city of New Orleans is located quite generally in The South. End O' THAT discussion. Youdon'tknowjack really doesn't know, AND needs to calm down. Behave yerself, boah... or else, I'll have to MAKE you behave.

Mary P... Answer: NO. It's Friday, and also you are asking for an impossibility; most NewsVine commenters are hard-headed and to ask them to become malleable and change their way of reacting on this comment board will cause their brittle brains to shatter, rendering them truly dumb, and their next of skin will have to apply for Gum'ment medical aide, foood stamps, and then... Michael Moore will have a Sicko part 2 to have to work on.

DO YOU REALLY WANT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN? MARY P? hahaha

You gotta force yourself to stick to the topic of discussion and behave yourself, Youdon'tknowjack , if you want to sit at the Adult's Table and gab with the grownups.

*facepalm*

Bush got a lot of a bad rap for Katrina. Obviously as you could see with Sandy, Obama should have got the same flack, but then again the media is very bias and they employ much in the way of real journalists anymore. I never blamed Obama for Sandy really, just called the hypocrisy. FEMA was the one with the "Slow" response time, but obviously with events of such magnitude it is very difficult to get things up and running again. Same thing happened in Tennessee, but because this was a "Red" state, Obama didn't help. Luckily the country industry has a very large base and are classy people.

Politics will be politics.

Lastly and back on topic, during Katrina, Nagin was the jerk who made the racist comments and the jerk who should have called for a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. Governor Barbour called for a mandatory evacuation, but Nagin was negligent. Negligent, but not criminal I should add. The corruption is however and he should be jailed. I say it wasn't criminal to be negligent because really people should evacuate due to common sense. Personal responsibility is what people should have. If you want to stay, then you shouldn't expect resources to be tied up saving your tail and putting first responders at risk.

DancingSpider man you really do have a narrowminded grasp of the world. Don't talk about the adult table when you are still in the booster seat.

New Orleans is obviously located in the south, but it's very culturally diverse. I haven't even been there and I know this. Obviously he was black and he was elected as mayor and he is a democrat. It goes to show you that you really are making a fool of yourself. That and you really played a Michael Moore card, you lose all your points and thank you for playing.

What good is a mandatory evacuation if the people can't afford to go anywhere? All I heard from Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the conservative media was that the people of New Orleans needed to pull themselves up by their boot straps. Pretty hard to do if you don't have boots! The overwhelming majority of American citizens that died during Katrina were there because they couldn't afford to leave. We as a country need to start taking care of our poorer members of society. I know that people make their own choices in life. I also know that someone has to flip the burgers. Someone has to clean the hotel rooms, but why can't those people get health insurance? Are they not worthy of a healthy life? If America doesn't change it's views and policies on poverty, we will be in trouble. Just ask Russia (circa 1917).

Severin....holmes

when the bonehead LBJ started his scam known as "the war on poverty" the poverty rate in this country was about 14% , today the poverty rate is?........................wait..........................wait..............

you guessed it about 14% !!!! , wow! , stone waste of 15 TRILLION dollars wouldn't you say? , of course you wouldn't , no self-respecting leftist liberal would , never mind

you don't really want the list of corrupt republicans, do you? it's just as long as the list of bad democrats. wrong is wrong, no matter your political affiliation. just sad.

republicans are just as bad!! I say get rid of all of them -

Nagin was a republican most of his life, he switched parties right before the election. He contributed to the Bush campaign and was a known Bush supporter.

Eric, Nagin was a life long democrat.

Eric-913730,

Check Nagin's Wikipedia-..."Although a lifelong Democrat, Nagin endorsed conservative Republican Bobby Jindal over conservative Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco in the 2003 runoff for governor. Both candidates platforms were almost identical, so Nagin requested each write a letter detailing what they would do for the citizens of New Orleans if elected. Jindal wrote a very detailed plan while Blanco sent a one page, two paragraph letter.^[8]

How typically lefty of you to take a fact, twist it and shout it out in a completely distorted fashion to fit an argument that you cannot otherwise make.

sikchimp

wrong is wrong, no matter your political affiliation. just sad.

Trying to decide between political choices is becoming more and more like trying to figure out how to pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

YEAH !

It's all Bush's Fault!!!!!!

Eric-913730 - Nagin was a republican most of his life, he switched parties right before the election. He contributed to the Bush campaign and was a known Bush supporter.

*********************************LIAR LIAR PANT ON FIRE!*****************************

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkv_29Rncg

Since you lazy jackarse Demoncraps love using Wikipedia so much instead of doing your own Research:

Although a lifelong Democrat, Nagin endorsed conservative Republican Bobby Jindal over conservative Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco in the 2003 runoff for governor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Nagin

Eric-913730 you still need to pull out your gun (penis) so that I can cut it off. No gun for you as a Dictator Obama Requirement to be a Demoncrap.

This Is My Rifle. This Is My Gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U

lol yes he fits in quite well!!

Nagin and all New Orleans politicians are and will be crooked, the EX mayor of Kenner, all those who get paid big bucks and that isn't enough they want IT ALL.

They should hang him out to dry. He hurt and caused so many people to die. It amazes me he can sleep at night.

Yes I have learned watching Al Gores opps I mean the Oil Company Network. This fraud was the fault of Global scamming lol

Now things like that would never happen in New Orlean. I just can not believe he got caught. He must not have paid off someone. Governement at its finest.

Well I would think that all criminals have to think they won't get caught. Otherwise, who would commit a crime? I guess someone who had something else to prove or nothing else to lose. For guys like this it's got to be a flaw in their mental processes. They must be mentally retarded in at least that one aspect.

Power corrupts.... and absolute power corrupts, absolutely............

Just check DC..........

concernedone

Can these people honestly think they won't get caught? How is that possible? Don't they understand the information age we live in today?

How many people have been caught and prosecuted for selling us $10 trillion of goods and services in exchange for $16 trillion of debt?

Keep posting it over and over Eric....that is pathetic....He was the hero to you and the media as long as he was spreading his lies and corruption....now you throw him under the bus.

more dumbocrats and libtards at their finest

Maybe there would be a whole lot fewer if we quit voting the pricks into office. It's one thing to vote someone in who then commits a crime (And they aught to have a lifetime ban of funning for any kind of public office if they have been convicted of a felony.), but it's a sad how often politicians get voted into office after the people voting for them KNOW they are criminals and in some cases even convicted criminals.

I agree with you, Gneisenau... we keep putting them back in office, so who is the stupid ones here? Our entire government is corrupt and we are simply too lazy to do anything about it. So sad. I worked in LA during Nagin's first term and before I even went there, I was told of the corruption in New Orleans government offices. Cheaters, liars, theives, you name it, it was all wrapped up in one package. God sent a message with Katrina, but obviously, it was't a strong enough message...... this time.

Gneisenau

Does Marion Barry come to mind? Who were the people who kept voting him back in?

Yeah, Marion is the poster child for this. There's no doubt why DC is so screwed up. The residents there don't have the sense God gave a rock. Chicago isn't far behind.

you mean just like George Zimmerman?

Still waiting for a real jury for Zimmerman.

Or at least in Chicago they wouldn't have thought twice about it......

In Washington DC they would have re-elected him (a la Marion Berry) after he was caught. And again after he was released from prison.

Leo my 'Truther' friend tells me Katrina was staged by liberals to make George Bush look bad and that Ray Nagin was (and is) actually a CIA agent planted into the position of Mayor of New Orleans by Home Depot as part of the subplot designed to support the Concrete Slab Lobby which, at the time, was in bed with Barney Frank (literally) in order to pass a bill that would pave over Rhode Island to turn it into a giant basketball court. Leo says he has photos and documentation to back all this up so I'm sure it's true.

BS.... HILARIOUS, man. sad, but true, watch faux news tonite for the REAL story!

Mayors remind me of military Majors. They get a taste of power and many wind up getting busted for corruption.

Who do we trust when everyone's a crook?

@ RTypo - No one in the government. When they tell you that they want to help, run screaming the other way.

Gneisenau: Ronald Reagan said it best. "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

Indeed!

Yes, but it was white people telling the slaves they owned to build where they built. We cannot and should not pin the blame on black people; this one was clearly the white man's fault WAY back when...

who's blaming black people for the flooding of NO?? The poster just said, "Mother nature is not responsible for your mistakes..." Noone mentioned blaming any race until you came along. It's pretty revealing which race in America is really the racist one.

You do realize the city was built almost 300 years ago and flooding was not what it is now, right? The Army Corp of Engineers screwed that up in the 1900s when they built the levee system the way they did. So please, leave your ignorant "you get what you deserve" statement behind. Otherwise there are PLENTY of other areas in the country who get what they deserve when there is a tornado, earthquake, flood or any other natural disaster.

There haven't been any slaves living in NO in 150yrs more or less. Stop blaming the mistakes of the present on the past.

This story confirms something all of us already knew - it was the Greyhound Bus companies fault!!! Damn them!! Where were they during all this? Probably carrying all the stolen cash in those bathrooms at the back of the bus. No one would DARE go into one of those to search for evidence. To this day I'm convinced Jimmy Hoffa was just stuffed into a bathroom on the back of a Greyhound Bus.

no @!$%#! Dummies build in a swamp then cry because it flooded. OVER AND OVER AND OVER! not the brightest bulbs on the tree!!

so Joe, here, now in the twentyfirst century what would YOUR solution be? since its really kinda too late to build the city above sea level. Maybe we could raze the whole city and build a gigantic dizneyworld. Get rid of all the pesky wildlife and sea birds and put up some plastic condos and mcmansions.

murph: Instead of pouring billions of dollars into new orleans to rebuild, spend the money to move people OUT. Then NO MORE floods, NO MORE payments. In the long run, it would save money.

Anti, did you fall asleep in your American History classes? The cities that lie low, such as New Orleans, were built where they are because they are on the waterways (duh!!). In the early days of this country, modes of moving goods were quite limited. There were no airplanes, just ships, to bring goods back and forth between Europe and the US. You want all of these cities to be rebuilt on higher ground now?

In the midst of all the insults and vile, let me remind folks that Nagin had one cogent comment - I believe that it was the day after Katrina had gone through.

One of the network reporters asked him IF New Orleans should be rebuilt. His response was something akin to "yeah, about 25 miles further inland (Might have been 35 miles)." AND he was right!!

New Orleans has been sinking since it was built, it was not originally below sea-level.. So now we've poured billions into rebuilding it - still below sea-level. The next time it goes, and it will, we really should think about relocation as opposed to rebuilding.

mpa

The next time it goes, and it will.

The operative phrase is "and it will". It will always happen again, it always has, and it always will, there is no way to stop mother nature, whether it be floods from the Mississippi, hurricanes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, its always going to happen again and there is not much we can do about it. What we do after it happens is a very different story, and what Nagin did was "nothing", instead of yelling "Im incompetent, and so is Blanco", he tried to blame racism, and most of all Bush. The best thing N.O could have done is donate money for a glass belly button so Nagin could see what he's doing while he has his head up his a$$. Chocolate City and Chocolate Government, you wanted it, and you got it, how did it work out for you.

Port facilities need to be built in areas where there is adequate water for shipping. Residential areas do not need to be built in areas prone to flooding. There is plenty of information and technology which can identify zones best suited for ports, and zones poorly suited for residential housing. New Orleans has a long long history of political corruption. It can't be dismantled because of the significance of the Mississippi River to international trade. It can be rezoned for residential housing, and non port related commerce.

Did anyone notice and appreciate the irony of the video at the top of this story? The commercial that plays before the video is for... tada... Home Depot! I thought that was great. They should add one for Greyhound Bus lines too just to be fair. Also, calm down everyone. Corrupt, dishonest behavior is the RULE these days... not the EXCEPTION. Some day soon headlines will feature stories of people doing the RIGHT THING because THAT will be newsworthy: POLITICIAN SHOWS UP AT WORK AND DOESN'T STEAL MONEY... MAN WINS GOLD MEDAL WITHOUT STEROIDS... CHILD GO TO SCHOOL AND IS NOT SHOT... film at eleven.

Clearly the federal investigators are racists - don't they know that only white people in government are evil and corrupt?

To some of the people here that are using the racism card are idiots. No matter what color you are you can become corrupt. He is scum & deserves to be locked up for a long time.

Did you just reply... to yourself?

These people? THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!

Whatd'you mean, "THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!"

How many times have I heard that one...LOL!

I don't know Inspired...how many times have you done something corrupt, gotten caught, and then try to turn the tables on the accuses as being racist?

he meant THOSE people.

InspiredByHumanity

obama lies means YOU PEOPLE hahaaaaha

InspiredByHumanity: It would have been more appropriate to use the term "them people" (as we intentionally do in Northern Maryland). Now go eat a big bowl of mashed potatoes and pork gravy and "calm down"!

Thanks, glock23-3282286-
That's EXACTLY what I am talking about, Json-703315-
You ain't kidding, joe s-1610165-

I had to goto diversity training more than once...

;-)

Mashed Potatoes? No problem!
Pork Gravy? Who eats that @!$%#?

PMoscatelli- No, not everyone thinks that US politicians are not corrupt. Because of the power and the position they hold they have much more opportunities to get involved in corruption than people in other professions, and they take full advantage of it.

You are correct, and no matter what the color, no matter what the position, if they should be found guilty they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

InspiredByHumanity, the subsidence which took St. bernard Parish below sea level was caused mostly by oil drilling, which happened after the area was built up. Therefore not the fault of the people living there! I was there last February, and saw it.

McMillen

Ive seen some stupid shi! posted on here, but yours takes the cake! Did you evacuate when this sinking took place or did you just stand there and yell "Save me King Bama". The mentality of dumbocrats is just not to be believed.

The real shock was that they reelected him. I can't stand it. He dropped the ball blamed someone else, for HIS inaction and then still kept his job. WTH

sounds like a play outa the Saints playbook!! lol

again, do we need to post the list of corrupt republicans? it's just as long as the list of corrupt democrats, maybe longer. as a lifelong democrat, i say prosecute his ass, if he's found guilty, put same ass in jail. wrong is wrong, no matter your political affiliation.

fine, you asked for it.....

Under Investigation

Ted Stevens (Republican Senator, AK): Under Investigation. Under Federal Investigation for bribery and illegal gratuities and/or unreported gifts from from VECO Corp., Alaska's largest oil-field engineering firm.

Don Young (Republican Representative, AK): Under Investigation. Under Federal Investigation for bribery and illegal gratuities and/or unreported gifts from from VECO Corp., Alaska's largest oil-field engineering firm.

Jim Gibbons (Republican Governor, NV): Under investigation. Under Federal investigation for influence peddling for recieving gifts in exchange for federal government contracts.

Rick Renzi (Republican Representative, AZ): Under investigation. Under Federal investigation for involvement in land swap deal. After the investigation of Renzi was initiated by Paul Charlton, the US Attorney for Arizona, Charlton was added to the list of attorney's to be dismissed in what would become the justice department's US attorney's controversy. Previous to the investigation Charton had been on the "retain" list.

John Doolittle (Republican Representative, CA): Under investigation. Under Federal investigation for possible illegal activities in connection with Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and illegal compensation of his wife Julie Doolittle. The investigation is directed at the activities of Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions Inc., a fund-raising company run by Mrs.Doolittle (see below).

Julie Doolittle (Republican Consultant): Under investigation. Under Federal investigation for possible unlawful compensation and possible illegal activities connected with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Mrs. Doolittle's firm, Dominion Financial Solutions Inc., in which Mrs. Doolittle is the only employee, recieved compensation and commissions in return for event planning for Abramoff, book-keeping services for lobbying firm connected to Abramoff and over $180,000 in commissions since late 2001.

Curt Weldon (Republican Representative, Pennsylvania): Under Investigation. Ongoing investigation into influence peddling and unlawful ties to two Russian companies.

Mark Foley (Republican Representative from Florida): Under Investigation. Resigned amid evidence that he had engaged in sexually explicit electronic communications with former and current congressional pages.

Ben Stevens (Republican State Senate President, Alaska): Under Investigation. FBIinvestigating possible illegal "consulting" fees paid to Stevens from the oil and fisheries industries. The fisheries industry has recieved numerous substantial Federal "grants" from the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board of which Ben Stevens was the board's first chairman and was curiously set up by Ben's father, Alaskan Senator, Ted aka "the Bridge" Stevens.

Ralph Reed (Fundiecon, first executive director of the Christian Coalition): Under Investigation. Being probed in Jack Abramoff scandal. Target of Republican criticism arising from alleged profiteering from his position as a Conservative Christian leader. Numerous other shady dealings and accusations of overbilling. Resigned from the Christian coalition after federal prosecutors began investigating allegations by the Christian Coalition's chief financial officer, Judy Liebert. Under his leadership the Christian Coalition was found in violation of federal campaign finance laws during congressional elections in 1990, 1992 and 1994, and the presidential election in 1992.

Kenneth Tomlinson (Republican Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, former Chairman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting): Under Investigation. Under Investigation for misuse of Federal money. A state department investigation revealed that Tomlinson had ran a horse racing operation out of his office, overbilled the government, used employees for personal errands, and "improperly" put a friend on the payroll. PBS investigators said "that they had uncovered evidence that its former chairman had repeatedly broken federal law and the organization's own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias." The investigation led to his resignation from PBS in November 2005.

Jerry Lewis (Republican Representative, California): Under Investigation. Under Investigation for influence peddling, earmarking Federal Funds and possible conflict of interest. Lewis is Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and was currently named one of the most corrupt members of Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington(CREW).

Indicted

Mark Deli Siljander (Republican, Former Representative, Michigan, President Reagan alternate representative appointee to the United Nations General Assembly): Indicted. The 42-count indictment includes charges of money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying to investigators about lobbying efforts on behalf of the Islamic American Relief Agency which allegedly has funneled funds to declared terrorists.

Michael S. Carona (Republican, Sheriff, Orange County, CA, Resigned): Indicted. Grand jury 10-count indictment include bribery, tax evasion, conspiracy and witness-tampering and faces a maximum sentence of up to 20 years.

Glenn Murphy Jr. (Young Republican National Chairman, Clark County GOP Chairman, Indiana): Indicted. Resigned from all GOP positions during investigation for criminal deviate conduct, a Class B felony. According to the report Murphy performed oral sex on another sleeping man without his consent during a party for Young Republicans. Murphy was also investigated in 1998 for sexual battery for apparently committing the same act. Murphy was charged with a class B felony, criminal deviate conduct and faces between six and 20 years if convicted.

Ozwald Balfour (Republican, Founder, Utah Republican Black Assembly): Indicted. Charged with three felony counts forcible sexual abuse and one felony count of attempted forcible sexual abuse after allegedly groping four women.

Robert Lichfield (Republican fundraiser for Mitt Romney): Indicted. Named along with 140 other defendents, the Federal lawsuit alleges that students at schools operated by the Worldwide Association of Specialty Schools, were subjected to "physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse."

Alan B. Fabian (Republican fundraiser for Mitt Romney and Bush Ranger): Indicted. Indicted by a grand jury on 23-counts of mail fraud, money laundering, bankruptcy fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice. According to prosecutors, Fabian made $32 million in false purchases of computer equipment, but actually spent the money on real estate and private jet use.

Robert Regola (Republican State Senator, PA): Indicted. Indicted on three counts of perjury, allowing possession of a firearm by a minor, recklessly endangering another person and false swearing in the suicide death of a teenage neighbor in which his weapon was used.

Bruce Weyhrauch (Former Republican state representative, Alaska): Indicted. Weyhrauch faces four counts of extortion, bribery and wire or mail fraud. Weyhrauch faces charges of helping to pass legislation in exchange for future legal work contracts from the oil engineering firm VECO.

Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari (aka Michael Mixon) (Republican businessman, GOP Donor, White House Advisor, activist): Indicted. Attempted to send over 150 thousand dollars to the Middle East to purchase equipment for terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Also facing charges of money laundering.

Kyle "Dusty" Foggo (Republican Former CIA official): Indicted . 11 counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. Connected to bribery of convicted Congressman Duke Cunningham. (See below)

Tom aka "The Hammer" DeLay (GOP House Majority Leader): Indicted. Resigned. Indicted on multiple charges money laundering and conspiracy. Implicated with Abramoff.

John Colyandro (Executive Director of the political action committee Texans for a Republican Majority): Indicted. Charged along with Tom Delay and Jim Ellis in numerous conspiracy, money laundering and illegal campaign finance activities.

Jim Ellis (Executive Director, Americans for a Republican Majority): Indicted. Charged with Delay and Colyandro in "scheme to use corporate political donations illegally to support candidates in state elections."

Warren RoBold (DeLay fundraiser): Indicted. Charged with nine different felonies in Delay money laundering campaign contribution scheme.

Ernie Fletcher(Kentucky Republican Governor, Evolution hater): Indicted. Cronyism. Due to the likelihood of Fletcher's executive immunity as governor and the likelihood of pardoning himself upon leaving office a plea bargain was reached where "The governor acknowledges that the evidence strongly indicates wrongdoing by his administration with regard to personnel actions within the merit system. Further, the governor hereby states that these actions were inappropriate and that he regrets their occurrence and accepts responsibility for them as head of the executive branch of state government."

James Tobin (President George W. Bush's New England campaign chairman): Retrial. Convicted on telephone harassment charges "for his part in a plot to jam the Democrats' phones on Election Day 2002." Update: 6/07/07. Conviction overturned on appeal. Prosecutors were reviewing the decision, and did not say if they planned to appeal.

Lawrence Novak (Vice-Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party) Indicted. Charged with laundering money from a client facing drug charges.

Guilty

Pete Kott (Former Republican state representative, Alaska): Guilty. Found Guilty on three counts of extortion, bribery and mail fraud for recieving money in exchange for his support of a pipeline and a tax proposal that favored the oil engineering firm VECO.

Victor Kohring (Former Republican state representative, Alaska): Guilty. Kohring was found guilty conspiracy, bribery, and attempted extortion for accepting bribes from oil company VECO Corporation in exchange for services rendered in the company's behalf in the Alaska State Legislature.

John E. Sweeney (Republican, Former Representative, New York): Guilty. Pled guily to aggravated DWI. Arresting officer witnessed Sweeny's vehicle swerving erratically with a young woman partially sitting on his lap. Sweeney's blood alcohol level was .18, over twice the legal limit.

Bob Allen (Republican state representative and co-chairman of John McCain's presidential campaign, Florida, Resigned): Guilty. Found guilty of solicitation to commit prostitution after being arrested at a public restroom, offering cash to perform oral sex on a male undercover police officer. Sentenced to six months probation, fine, court costs, mandatory STD testing and education and to stay away from the park where he was arrested.

Thomas Ravenel (former Republican State Treasurer and Rudolph Giuliani State Chairman, South Carolina): Guilty. Plead guilty to "conspiring to buy and distribute less than 100 grams of cocaine". Faces sentence of up to fifty years in prison.

Jeffrey Ray Nielsen (Republican, Former Aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, Republican Activist): Guilty. Pled guilty to molesting two teenage boys in order to avoid second trial and a maximum 11 year sentence. Nielsen faces 3 years in prison.

Ted Klaudt (Republican, Former State Representative, State Senate Candidate, South Dakota):Guilty. Found guilty on four counts of second-degree rape. Klaudt used the pretext of his underage foster daughters selling fertile eggs to perform fake "medical exams". Klaudt faces a maximum sentence up to 100 years (25 years for each count).

Brent Wilkes (Republican businessman, Defence Contractor): Guilty. Found guilty on all 13 counts of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and bribes involving convicted Congressman Duke Cunningham in return for government contracts. Still awaiting second trial on multiple counts of bribery involving former CIA executive director Dusty Foggo.

Larry Craig (Republican Senator, ID, Resigned as U.S. Senate co-chair of the Mitt Romney for president campaign): Guilty. Arrested in June 2007 on suspicion of propositioning police officer at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Craig payed a fine, was given one year of probation and a 10 day jail sentence which was stayed. Craig now denies wrongdoing.

Michael Flory (former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans): Guilty. Pled guilty to sexual battery in a plea bargain while on trial for overpowering and repeatedly raping a young woman in a hotel room during a national Young Republican convention in Cleveland in the summer of 2006. Sentenced to five years in prison.

Italia Federici (President, Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy): Guilty. Pled guilty in Federal investigation for tax evasion and obstructing a Senate investigation in exchange for cooperating in continuing Congressional and Bush Administration corruption investigation involving former convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

J. Steven Griles (former Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Interior, Coal Lobbyist):Guilty. Plead guilty to felony obstruction of justice for making false statements in relation to Abramoff lobbying scandal.

Tom Anderson (former Republican state representative, Alaska): Guilty. Found guilty on all charges. Sentencing scheduled in October 2007. Anderson faces a maximum penalty of 20 years and $250,000 for extortion, 20 years and $500,000 on each count of money laundering, 10 years and $250,000 on the bribery count and five years and a $250,000 fine for conspiracy.

Bernard Kerik (NYPD Commissioner, Bush homeland security chief nominee, formerly the Interim Minister of Interior of Iraq): Guilty. Pled guilty to two ethics violations accepting $165,000 in renovations to his Bronx apartment from a contractor with suspected mob ties and an illegal loan. Under investigation for tax fraud, conspiracy to eavesdrop and mortgage fraud.

Lewis aka "Scooter" Libby (V-P Chief of Staff): Guilty. Resigned. Found Guilty on four charges of obstruction of justice, 2 counts of perjury, and one count of lying to federal investigators in Plame leak investigation. Sentenced to 30 months in prison. Sentence commuted by Presidential order.

Gary Miller (Republican Representative, California): Guilty. Ongoing investigation by FBI and IRS for tax evasion on earmarked investment property.

Lester M. Crawford (FDA Commissioner): Guilty. Resigned after two months as FDA Chief in Fall 2005, pled guilty in October 2006 to charges he hid ownership in food and drug companies that his agency regulated.

Jack Abramoff (Lobbyist): Guilty. Pled Guilty to multiple felony conspiracy, bribery, tax evasion and fraud counts. Currently testifying in gang-style murder of SunCruz Casinos owner Konstantinos Boulis.

David Safavian (Employee of the Office of Management and Budget): Guilty. Four felony counts of lying and obstruction in Abramoff lobbying and corruption scandal.

Tony Rudy (Lobbyist, DeLay staffer): Guilty. Unindicted co-conspirator "Staffer A" in DeLay scandal. Pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with investigators.

Michael Scanlon (Former DeLay Communications Director, Lobbyist): Guilty. Pled guilty to conspiring to bribe a member of Congress and other public officials.

Bob Ney (Republican Representative, Ohio): Guilty. Pled guilty to conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Abramoff scandal. Sentenced to 30 months in prison, a $6,000 fine and 200 hours of community service.

Neil Volz (Chief of Staff to Representative Bob Ney): Guilty. Pleded guilty to one count of conspiracy, including wire fraud and violating House rules.

Tom Noe (Republican (Bush/Cheney) Fundraiser, Activist): Guilty. Found guilty of money laundering and under indictment for a plethora of felonies in the Ohio "Coingate" scandal.

Randall aka "Randy" or "Duke" Cunningham (Republican Congressman): Guilty. Pled Guilty to bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion. Currently serving eight year sentence.

Mitchell Wade (Defence Contractor, President MZM, Inc.,): Guilty. Paid over $1 million in bribes to "Duke" Cunningham in exchange for millions more in government contracts.

Claude Allen (Presidential Domestic Policy Advisor, Fundiecon): Guilty. Pled guilty in felony theft scheme of returning shoplifted goods for refund.

Bob Taft (Ohio Republican Governor): Guilty. Pled "No Contest" to four criminal misdemeanors for undisclosed gifts.

Shaun Hansen (Republican Activist): Guilty. Former co-owner of Idaho-based telemarketing firm Mylo Enterprises. Charged for conspiring to commit, and aiding and abetting the commission of, interstate telephone harassment relating to a scheme to jam several New Hampshire telephone lines on Election Day, 2002.

Charles McGee (former Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee):Guilty. Plead Guilty to conspiracy to commit telephone harassment in New Hampshire phone scam. Sentenced to 7 months.

Allen Raymond (President, GOP Marketplace): Guilty. Hired by McGee to jam Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire phone scam. Served 4 Months. Served and released.

George Ryan (Former Republican Governor of Illinois):Guilty. 16 federal public corruption convictions of racketeering and bribery.

John Roland (Republican governor, Connecticut): Guilty. Pled guilty to corruption charges. Served sentence and released.

Adam Taff (Republican Congressional Candidate): Guilty. Pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of violating federal campaign law in charges stemming from his use of campaign funds to put a down payment on a 1.2 million dollar home.

Dishonorable Mentions

Richard Curtis (Republican State Representative, La Center, Washington) Resigned.. Resigned after denying and then admitting having paid for sex with 26-year-old male waiter. Curtis, opposed a 2006 gay rights discrimination bill and a 2007 domestic partnership bill.

Ken Calvert (Republican Representative, California) Should be under investigation. Earmarked Federal funds for personal gain by buying and selling land that benefited from multiple freeways and commerical development pushed through by his position as a Representative. Ties with consulting firm of Copeland, Lowery that is currently under investigation in the Jerry Lewis scandal above.
Also. Arrested in 1993 for Soliciting a prostitute.

Don Sherwood (Former Republican Representative, Pennsylvania): Civil Suit Settlement. Settled in civil suit with former mistress accusing Sherwood of repeatedly assaulting her during their 5-year extramarital relationship. The mistress, Cynthia Ore, called police in September 2004, after locking herself in the bathroom, and accused Sherwood of choking her. No charges were filed because "Both parties have left out significant information or are not willing to discuss in detail what actually happened".

Rush Limbaugh (Conservative Radio Talk Show Host): Plea Bargain. Charged with "doctor shopping" to obtain prescription pain medication. Limbaugh surrendered to authorities after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Prosecutors agreed to drop the charge if Limbaugh paid $30,000 to help offset investigation costs, complete a drug addiction treatment with his physician and submit to random drug testing.

Bill O'Reilly (Conservative Fox News Talk Show Host): Civil Suit Settlement. Settled a civil suit for sexual harrassment. Former O'Reilly factor producer Mackris filed a sexual harassment suit, complaining that O'Reilly had made numerous references to "phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and other sexual fantasies".

and this is only through 2008.....

What's your point. Lots of people are charged with a crime and are found not guilty. Remember OJ.

wow someone has ALOT of spare time. you should spend as much time looking for a job and get off welfare you 47 percenter.

I have the list of democrats that were actually convicted not "under investigation" because some anti american socalist wants to cast anybody who will not help Obama take america down as a enemy. I will say it is working though,, ever see a president run on everything but his true record?

The party of hate , lies and deception that has hurt the minorities more than anytime in recent history not to mention the retire, poor and middle class. These progressive socalist along with Obama will do anything hurt anybody and use any distaster to spin the truth to take us down another notch.

Back to the subject the list of actually convicted socalist democrats is much longer but cannot figure out how to download it, typing would take at least a hour mabey two.

Great post MSNBC,now how about some balance and list the democrats who far outnumber this list?What's that?Ohhhh thats right you support the marxist/fascist/treasonous letch in office and would never try to undermine this godless selfish effort.

YOU FORGOT BUSH THE WAR MONGERING LYING piece of crap that he is and Donald Rumsfield.

"Back to the subject the list of actually convicted socalist democrats is much longer but cannot figure out how to download it, typing would take at least a hour mabey two."

Sounds familiar. Didn't Bush have a list of WMD's in Iraq? (but he couldn't figure out how to download it... look how legit that turned out to be.)

I could have been more harsh, you know if a democrat had posted what you just did, you probably would have been the fist to rip them to pieces.

Ted Stevens is no longer under investigation. Ted Stevens is underground; about six feet to be approximate.

TRANSLATION: He died in an airplane accident.

Another low life liberal. This is a great day in N.O. Nagin was one of the worst, scum bag Mayors N.O. ever had. He's not as bad as Morial, both father and son; just a lot dumber. Morial had too much clout for anyone to dare testify against him. They would disappear. Nagin was just an indignant A hole. Current Mayor Landrieu is no better, just comes off a little more polished. His disgusting joke of a sister might not get re-elected to the Senate this time. Nagin should have accepted the Feds plea deal; now he and his thieving sons will go to jail. Sounds like the William Jefferson family scum all over again. Wonderful Democrats

I find the democrat and republican squabbling hilarious. Your all such morons, stuck in your collective ideological ruts. You fools can't see the nose on your faces. Our government is corrupt. Republican and Democrats alike. All your constitutional rights are being stripped away from you, But all of you are completely oblivious, and blame the opposition party. Your easily controlled because your reactions are so predictable and kneejerk. Wake up your ship of fools. Your division is by design. United We Stand, Divided We Fall, afterall.

sikchimp--that's impressive. Now, if you really want to be fair instead of cherry picking GOP examples, how about doing the same with Dems--AND POST IT.

sikchimp can't doesn't have enough time

actually, that was, as should have been obvious, a quick cut and paste from a google search. and it was obviously old, as i stated at the end. yes, ted stevens, corrupt asshat that he was, is most assuredly dead. unlike many newsvine posters, i have a job, and only interject when i have a spare hour or two, but that list could be MUCH longer...as can that of corrupt democrats. the list wasn't the point, which was lost on the posters behind it. reading comprehension can be a good thing....

To stevephoenix---He "got away" with his chocolate city comment because he's black, and because the Obama Administration is SO corrupt. If welfare payments were suddenly stopped, 90% of those in N.O. would suddenly begin a weight-reducing diet, and have NO beer and cigarettes money. Hey...good idea!

To DrmdMD: First,Nagin did not get away with this comment; he was vilified by both black and
white people at the time he made those remarks.

Second, the comments were made during the Bush Administration; therefore the Obama Administration had nothing to do with it. Correct me if I wrong but isn't it the Obama Administration that is conducting this investigation.

Third, how do you know that 90% of the people in N.O. are on welfare and how many of them do you know are fat, drink beer and smoke cigarettes? I find it quite ironic that every time welfare is talked about, it is always a minority race issue. It was once stated to me that the majority of people on welfare were either minorities (i.e. Black,Hispanic) or illegal immigrants, when in reality even if every minority and
illegal immigrants in this country was on welfare (which they are not) there would still be four times as many white people on the welfare rolls. So if they cut out welfare payments white people would suffer the most.

Lastly, it is a shame that someone as intelligent as you appear to be would make comments based on hearsay, rather than take the time to find out the real facts for himself.

As long as we Americans continue to fight with each other out of ignorance and fear we all lose.

This discussion should be about an individual corrupt politician who if he is guilty should be punished to the fullest extent of the law period and it should not matter who or what he is.

He will probabaley hirm him as his diversity zar or his ethics zar. Obama promoted barnie franks the socalist progressive that was the CEO of fanny mae and Chris dodd the CEO of freddie mac right after the lied about the housing market costing investors billions of dollars and the banks trillions. They almost collapsed the US economy and the world economy. Obama promoted franks to his banking director!

The progressive socalist show who they are at every turn, all you have to do is pay attention!

Shawn3179: Get help before it is too late.

This is old news, the only thing new is he was finally charged.

I'm very sure that he will be sentenced to write a very heartfelt letter of apology.

But since he's no longer a Politician and is a private citizen he had better be careful and not steal any candy bars because he will be chasing down tackled beat up and then thrown into jail.