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« Suit challenging Ohio State U gun ban | Main | Proposal to dissolve BATF »

Mayor Ray Nagin takes the dive

Posted by David Hardy · 9 July 2014 02:50 PM

Former New Orleans mayor (and former poster child for Mayors Against Illegal Guns) just got ten years in prison on his corruption conviction.

The judge "departed downward" from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which would have called for a 15-20 year sentence. A judge can do that, although the government (in this case) can appeal.

The prosecutor "compared Nagin's crimes with those of other public officials who drew stiff sentences, including former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (28 years), former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (14 years) and former Birmingham, Alab., mayor Larry Langford (15 years)." Kilpatrick and Langford were members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and Blagojevich was about as antigun as is imaginable.

· antigun groups

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Anonymous | July 10, 2014 8:34 AM | Reply

Hmmm ... They're all Democrats.

Roger | July 10, 2014 1:19 PM | Reply

Here's hoping mayor Ray has Bubba for a cell mate.
Then he can get 10 years of what he gave New Orleans, good and hard.

30yearProf | July 10, 2014 10:49 PM | Reply

But he gets to skip Louisiana's notorious Angola prison. He's probably going to Lompoc (a division of Club Fed) to watch the tulips bloom next spring.

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