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
IG joins City Council members, two influential civic groups in calling for national search- New Orleans Inspector General Edward Michel urged Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Friday to conduct a national search for Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson’s successor. In a letter to the mayor, Michel advised appointing an interim superintendent to take the reins when Ferguson...
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...
A series of FOX 8 investigations found Mayor Cantrell spending hundreds of hours in the apartment, often for hours at a time during the workday. Continue Reading
The OIG accused Webster in its recent report published Tuesday morning of neglecting his duty at the Juvenile Justice Center by being absent from work and neglecting his responsibilities. They also accuse Webster of abusing his office by transporting his dog in city-owned vehicles and housing his pet at the JJIC facility. “Dr. Kyshun Webster...
The three-and-a-half year tenure of Kyshun Webster as director of New Orleans juvenile lockup was plagued by spotty attendance, questionable spending and an attempt to get the facility to take his ailing pet dog and pay hefty veterinary expenses, according to an investigative report released Tuesday by the city’s Office of Inspector General. Continue Reading
The New Orleans Inspector General released a new audit Thursday that found city building inspectors failed to show up for safety inspections at construction sites 20% of the time between April 2019 and March 2020. The report echoes the findings of a joint WWL-TV/Times-Picayune investigation conducted in January and February 2020, which found the same 20%...
