Federal prosecutors said convicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin lied on the stand in his corruption trial, ran and organized a bribery scheme, and should face a stiff sentence next week.Watch ...

Ray Nagin rose to prominence in New Orleans business circles as an executive for Cox Cable, where he was credited with making the once moribund local cable franchise into one of the most profitable in ...

NEW ORLEAN, LA (WVUE) - Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrived Monday at Federal Court with his attorney Robert Jenkins for the start of his federal corruption trial. Nagin faces a 21 count ...

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 ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin told a jury today that he didn’t know a one-time city vendor paid for his family’s vacation to Hawaii in 2004, a trip that prosecutors have cast as one of several ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. (Photo by NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune) When former Mayor Ray Nagin floated into federal court Wednesday witnesses detected no shaky gait. Facing 21 counts of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday summed up their case for convicting former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin of corruption during his two terms as mayor — a period that included the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- He arrived on the scene eight years ago, a political rookie who vowed to run City Hall like a business. Ray Nagin took office and enjoyed rock-star popularity in a city that was eager ...

As former Mayor Ray Nagin prepares to head to federal prison, his lawyer, Robert Jenkins, has asked a judge to allow him to withdraw as Nagin’s counsel, saying Nagin is “indigent” and cannot cover the ...

NEW 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.

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 ...