Author: WWL Staff; Published: 5:08 PM CDT March 15, 2023; Updated: 5:43 PM CDT March 15, 2023 In a letter to the mayor and the French Market Corporation, Inspector General Ed Michel stated that there is awaiting list of over 300 for an apartment at the Pontalba and that a market rate rental would be close...
WDSU.com Kourtney Williams, Updated: 11:53 PM CDT Mar 15, 2023 The Office of the Inspector General released a letter after looking into reports of the apartment being used as a residence by Cantrell. “The OIG recommends that the city relinquish the apartment to the French Quarter Market Corporation to rent to the public. This would...
BY MATT SLEDGE | STAFF WRITER; MAR 15, 2023 – 4:15 PM For decades, chief executives of New Orleans have kept a foothold in the French Quarter in the form of a special “mayor’s apartment” in the Upper Pontalba Building. But after the revelation last year that Mayor LaToya Cantrell was repeatedly spending hours of her day...
wdsu.com Cassie Schirm The Office of Inspector General has issued an opinion on the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board’s consideration of a rate hike to deal with its ongoing millions of dollars of delinquent funding issues. According to the report, SWBNO has experienced multiple well-publicized issues regarding customer billing, resulting in numerous customer complaints...
wdsu.com Aubry Killion A nonprofit started by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has issued a repayment to the city after an Office of the Inspector General report brought concerns forward about the organization’s spending. Continue Reading
BY DAVID HAMMER | WWL-TV FEB 14, 2023 – 7:00 PM Forward Together New Orleans, the nonprofit formed by Mayor LaToya Cantrell to pay for some of her signature social welfare programs, has returned more than $1 million in public money as it faces an Inspector General investigation and winds down its operations. Continue Reading
The New Orleans Office of Inspector General outlined a wide range of investigations and audits it has planned for city departments and agencies at a City Council budget hearing on Tuesday. The targets of the investigations include some of the most high profile issues in the city, including the city’s lax enforcement of short-term rental...
nola.com Matt Sledge After years of losing money on risky ventures, the New Orleans firefighters pension fund is making sounder investments, according to a new report from Inspector General Ed Michel’s office. Yet while it’s climbing out of its financial hole, the pension fund still hasn’t met all of its promises in a 2015 legal...
BY BEN MYERS | STAFF WRITER APR 27, 2022 – 6:46 PM The New Orleans City Council on Wednesday called on the city’s Office of Inspector General to investigate several initiatives advanced by Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration, while also ordering an immediate halt to distributions from a controversial land trust. Continue Reading
nola.com BY MATT SLEDGE | STAFF WRITER APR 7, 2022 – 4:00 AM The city’s new system for managing $1.1 billion in annual invoices is a big improvement over the problem-plagued system it replaced, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General, though New Orleans still fails to pay some of its bills...
