четверг, 13 февраля 2014 г.
Former president George W. Bush won reelection in 2004. His first term was disastrous from the start
This guilty verdict may put the politico in federal time out for 30 years. Nagin was the focal focus during wine tours tuscany the horrible events that lead to New Orleans being flooded during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
On January 18, 2013, Nagin was indicted on 21 corruption charges, including wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering related to his alleged dealings with two troubled city vendors following Hurricane Katrina disaster.
CNN reports that prosecutors had accused Nagin of being at the center of a kickback scheme in which he allegedly received checks, cash, wire transfers, personal services and free travel from businessmen seeking contracts and favorable treatment from the city.
The charges detailed more than $200,000 in bribes, his family members allegedly received a vacation in Hawaii; first-class airfare to Jamaica; private jet travel and a limousine for New York City; and cellular phone service.
The onetime cable-television executive was elected mayor in 2002 and was in office when the massive Katrina slammed ashore just east of New Orleans on August 29, 2005. The storm flooded more than three-fourths of the low-lying city and left more than 1,800 dead, most of them in across Louisiana.
Supporters credited Nagin's sometimes-profane demands for aid from Washington with helping reveal the botched federal response to the storm -- a fiasco that embarrassed the George W. Bush administration and led to billions of federal dollars being poured into Gulf Coast reconstruction efforts.
But Nagin also had his critics: A congressional committee criticized wine tours tuscany him for delaying evacuation orders, and his frantic description of post-storm New Orleans as a violent wasteland with up to 10,000 dead turned out to be greatly exaggerated.
Former president George W. Bush won reelection in 2004. His first term was disastrous from the start. September 11, 2001 attacks were the first of many reckless hings to happen under his watch. His second term was going to be a rebound from his first term. People were war weary and divided. August 28, 2005 will be the day that Bush will always remember as his "worst day ever!"
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