For you while you're waiting on the afternoon Saints game:BY ALLEN JOHNSON JR.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten today announced a 63-count indictment against Gregory Meffert, the city’s first chief technology officer — raising questions about how much has changed and how much has stayed the same at City Hall under outgoing Mayor Ray Nagin.
Inaugurated as a “reform” mayor in 2002, [...]
Greg Meffert, the mayor’s former right-hand man, has been indicted, along with his wife, Linda, and his crony, Mark St. Pierre. If Meffert is guilty, does this mean he did all this without Mayor Nagin knowing about it? I doubt it. Meffert: flip on Nagin and do it [...]
Things have come full circle on Ray Nagin. In 2002, he cast himself as the anti-Morial, the squeaky-clean “businessman” who was going to sweep out the corruption of the previous administration. After Friday’s 63-count corruption indictment against former city technology chief Greg Meffert — once Nagin’s top aide and close [...]
Greg Meffert sounds drained. It’s been about 24 hours since a jury found the city’s former technology chief to be partially liable (along with Dell Inc. and two firms owned by city vendor Mark St. Pierre) in a civil trial filed by plaintiffs Southern Electronics Supply Inc. and Active Solutions [...]
Story to follow, but Greg Meffert has issued a statement about the crime-camera jury nearly simultaneously with the return of the guilty verdict:
Statement from Greg Meffert:
Though I am relieved that the jury saw through some of this witch hunt, I’m disappointed that a majority of the jury found that [...]
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