A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on 21 counts of corruption, alleging that while in office, Nagin took cash bribes and gifts from ...

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.

Nagin was a political newcomer when he won election as New Orleans' mayor, succeeding Marc Morial in 2002. He cast himself as a reformer and announced crackdowns on corruption in the city's ...

WDSU has learned more about the financial trouble surrounding former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Nagin's wife, Seletha Nagin, has filed for bankruptcy in the Eastern District in Texas.

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin writes in a new memoir that he was the only one to understand how to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and that he endured plots against him and incompetence ...

NEW ORLEANS — Former 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. Nagin ...

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for corruption. The trial highlighted the city's tumultuous post-Katrina era.

NEW ORLEANS – Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor and the public face of the battered city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, has been indicted by a grand jury on 21 federal corruption charges.

Watch Ray Nagin leave federal court Ray Nagin leaves federal court after being found guilty on 20 of 21 corruption charges.

A jury found Mr. Nagin guilty of 20 of 21 counts, making him the city's first mayor to be convicted of corruption charges.

On Monday night, right after Katrina hit, Mayor Ray Nagin went on television to tell his battered constituents that “the city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation.” Speaking softly, and ...