Court Denies Ray Nagin’s Appeal

The courts say no to former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, again. Nagin was convicted on corruption charges in 2014.

The 5th Circuit's U.S. Court of Appeals rejects Nagin's latest appeal.

The Democrat served from 2002 to 2010 as mayor of the Crescent City. He was convicted on charges of wire fraud, bribery, money laundering and filing false tax returns.

Prosecutors say graft in his administration began before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and flourished afterward.

Bribes included money, free vacations and truckloads of free granite for his family business.

The former mayor had argued in his appeal that a judge gave erroneous instructions to the jury that convicted him.

But the judges wrote in their ruling that they found no error in the jury instructions.