While in office, Mayor Ray Nagin accepted a $50,000 payoff and shipments of free granite from city vendor Frank Fradella, and after leaving City Hall, he became a highly paid consultant to Fradella, ...

New Orleans officials are working to remedy a $160 million deficit and make payroll through the end of the year, after the state auditor last month uncovered months of botched budgeting. But it's not ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - When Hurricane Katrina’s winds battered New Orleans and the levees failed, Ray Nagin was the city’s mayor. Nine years later, when Nagin was no longer mayor, a federal jury ...

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 and the corruption surrounding his office in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is the focus of the season-premiere episode of CNBC's "American Greed" series debuting Thursday night.

He was charged with bribery, honest service wire fraud, money laundering. Jan. 18, 2013— -- Federal prosecutors today announced a 21-count indictment against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, ...

Verne Kennedy was trying to reach Ray Nagin in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but couldn’t get through. During the surreal, chaotic week following the storm, he saw and heard the mayor appearing ...

Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that New Orleans would be a “chocolate” city once more and asserted that “God was mad at America.” “I said ...

Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who portrayed himself as a straight-talking anti-politician determined to clean up the city’s notoriously corrupt culture, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in ...

Taking his oath at an iconic site of Katrina's misery, Mayor Ray Nagin began his second term and a new hurricane season Thursday by recounting small miracles in the city and promising bigger ones to ...

NASA engineer Nagin Cox lives on Earth but works on Mars time, where days are longer and time works differently. Her work with the rovers has entirely changed the way she thinks about time on Earth.