http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Nagin-story-guts-182242111.html
"Nagin’s image as a crime fighter first started to crumble in 2006 and 2007, when the blog American Zombie and Gordon Russell of The Times-Picayune exposed inside dealing in Nagin’s technology office. The stories and blog posts focused on Nagin’s tech chief (and neighbor) Greg Meffert,who proclaimed himself Nagin’s “deputy mayor” (even though no such title existed) and bragged about giving his boss free yacht parties and vacations."David.....
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Awesome! You even got mentioned by MSM.
http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Nagin-story-guts-182242111.html
These are priceless. Maybe he will add more in the days to come...
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/04/mayor_ray_nagins_eight_years_i.html
The advertisement banner atop the article on NOLA.com says "The Future Has Arrived". Subtle irony - hello Stone Age, LLC?
Karen is having an indictment celebration at The Lens tonight at 5:00.
Congratulations & job well done! Now, where is the party?
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/developer_city_reach_agreement.html
President of Bank A
President of Bank B
Lawyer/Businessman C
Who is Businessman A?
Possibly Ceasar Burgos? I don't know.
george solomon, perhaps.
August 2002 to May 2010:
City sued Kailas & Ryan in 2004.
Ashton Ryan & Gowri Kailas owners until Ashton Ryan bought out Kailas in 2009. This rules out Gowri Kailas per the indictment.
Ceasar Burgos joined Ryan in 2009 along with new group of investors.
Ashton Ryan is President of First NBC Bank and appears to be the only owner of this property from 2002 to 2010.
Wrinkle to the story though is that Alden MacDonald Jr. took out a loan from the City in 2002 for movie theater.
Grand of the East is owned by Alden McDonald, Ashton Ryan, and George Solomon Jr.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/another_loan_in_arrears_linked.html
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2009/09/bureau_of_governmental_researc_1.html
http://www.bgr.org/news/archives/council-to-decide-fate-of-lake-forest-plaza-mall-financing-today/
So delighted by the news and your finally getting due credit. Proud to know ya, sir. All drinks imbibed by me at the KdV ball will be in your honor. I had a friend who went to Ukraine in the Peace Corps. He said if one was visiting a neighbor, you had to drink when the man of the house raised his glass in a toast, and that happened about every six minutes. If the man of the house couldn't come up with a suitable toast, the standard one was "To the ladies!" Tomorrow night I'll have two toasts at the ready, "To the slammer!" and "To the Zombie!"
Thank you! You're the man.
Hell yes. Good work, Dambala.
One question: who is working as Frank Fradella's lawyer?
George Solomon Jr. appears to be the leading candidate as the news media is staked out outside his home right now.
Congratulations on all the hard work (that chapter at least) becoming realized. Power to the people! You took it on when no one wanted to see it. You offered people a voice and a place to come to stop corruption.
Superbowl, Parades, and indictments: hot damn, New Orleans, what a season.
Interesting that the destruction of emails was not mentioned. You have to wonder whether there's any chance Nagin/Meffert didn't orchestrate that.
It's a great day for the Zombie and the whole premise of the internet giving direct power to the people.
And that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I think Fradella's lawyer is Randy Smith. I think...
Yeah, the e-mails.
Whatever happened to those?
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