Rafael Goyeneche likes JP Morrell’s potential ordinance of renting out city owned Pontalba apartment
By Kaare Johnson | New Orleans Neutral Ground | April 7, 2023 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW CLIP
OPCD DID NOT FOLLOW PUBLIC BID LAW AND MADE PURCHASES THAT WERE POTENTIAL CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS
NOIG Press Release – OPCD Credit Cards Audit – Apr. 6, 2023
Recording reveals chaos behind the scenes at Orleans Sheriff’s Office
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | April 6, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — Long before controversy gripped the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office over the decision to get hotel rooms for 13 top deputies while they helped with Carnival security, acrimony had been brewing among the agency’s top executives. In fact, according to multiple sources and…
Federal judge orders several top New Orleans officials to attend consent decree hearing
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | April 4, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – After New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell refused to allow city employees to speak at public hearings on the consent decree without her permission, a federal judge has ordered the presence of several of the city’s top officials. In a court…
Top New Orleans leaders ordered to court by federal judge overseeing the consent decree
By Amy Russo | WGNO | April 4, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The federal judge overseeing the NOPD consent decree is ordering several high-ranking city leaders to court next week. Some of those include Police Chief Michelle Woodfork and Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montano. The order comes after Mayor Latoya Cantrell’s…
New Orleans Woman Sentenced in Staged Automobile Collision Scheme
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana Friday, March 31, 2023 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, on March 29, 2023, U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced TROYLYNN BROWN (“BROWN”), age 35, after she pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States…
Mayor Cantrell again defends use of Pontalba, opposes possible rule changes
By Rob Masson | WVUE| March 29, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she opposes any changes to her use of the city-owned Upper Pontalba apartment. In a routine press conference on Wednesday (March 29) Mayor Cantrell also said there is nothing inappropriate about her security team…
Lawyer: CFO abruptly fired after looking into sheriff’s Mardi Gras hotel rooms
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | March 29, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — While Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson explained that her dismissal of four of her top executives was already in the works as part of a transition as she approaches the one-year mark of her time in office, one of those employees…
New emails raise concerns over OPSO commanders’ Mardi Gras hotel stays
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | March 23, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — This is Part 3 of “Room Service,” an ongoing investigation into the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s use of high-end hotel rooms for top commanders during Carnival. You can read the first and second parts here. Responding to criticism over the use of public money to…
Another Individual Sentenced For Conspiring to Stage Automobile Accidents in Order to Defraud Insurance And Trucking Companies
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana Wednesday, March 22, 2023 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – MARVEL FRANCOIS (“FRANCOIS”), age 54, of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced today for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New…