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Despite criminal charges against Mayor Cantrell, lawsuit against her could be settled

The Sept. 19 settlement conference was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Janis van Meerveld in the lawsuit against Cantrell by ...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is accused of criminal cover-up to keep affair with officer secret

Officials allege she defrauded the city while trying to keep hidden her relationship with a police officer assigned to ...

When will Mayor Cantrell go to trial? Law professor breaks down timeline

LaToya Cantrell is the first sitting mayor of New Orleans to come under federal indictment. One law professor says it is very ...

Indictment far from the first time Mayor Cantrell accused of misusing public money

The allegations hearken back to 2017, when Cantrell was a city councilwoman, and this reporter reviewed hundreds of pages of ...

The Mayor of New Orleans had a years-long romance with her bodyguard. She’s been indicted for spending city money on hotels and wine tastings with him

The mayor of New Orleans had been treating her bodyguard to trips on the taxpayers’ dime during their years-long affair, a new federal grand jury indictment alleges. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell ...