wdsu.com Aubry Killion Investigative Reporter Updated: 6:50 PM CDT Nov 1, 2023 NEW ORLEANS —A bombshell update to a WDSU Investigation. WDSU Investigates first reported Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson spent more than $18,000 to house high-ranking employees in high-end hotel rooms for Carnival 2023. The report says 90 room nights were paid for. The...
By JOSEPH CRANNEY | Staff writer – Nov 1, 2023 More than $18,000 was spent on a combined 90 nights at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel. Taxpayers paid for empty rooms for 53 of those nights. Continue Reading
wwl By Chris Miller A New Orleans inspector general report finds the sheriff’s expenditures for hotel rooms at the Royal Sonesta last Mardi Gras to be “wasteful and unnecessary.” The sheriff’s office spent $18,000 for the rooms, for a total of 90 nights. When news of the sheriff’s use of hotel rooms first became public, the...
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nola.com BY BEN MYERS | Staff writer New Orleans mayors will no longer have access to a city-controlled apartment in Jackson Square after City Council members on Thursday quashed Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of an ordinance ending the longtime perk. With a 5-2 vote, the City Council upheld a measure requiring that the French Market...
wdsu.com Updated: 8:58 AM CDT Aug 18, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter The City of New Orleans is being fined by the Municipal Police Employee Retirement System (MPERS) for $38 million over the next 15 years due to a drastic drop in New Orleans Police Department officers. State law requires that if a department...
wdsu.com Updated: 7:38 PM CDT Apr 27, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter A call for more supervision over those protecting the New Orleans mayor, the Office of Inspector General just released a report raising concerns over a lack of procedure in place for Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s executive detail. “We determined that the executive protection team did...
wdsu.com Updated: 8:49 PM CDT Apr 7, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter Michel assumed the interim job in 2020 after inspector general Derry Harper resigned when it was discovered that he rarely showed up to work. Since he took on this role, the team has hit the ground running. “We had a 400% increase...
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...
