New Orleans Strip Clubs: Revelations on New Orleans crime camera trial: An editorial
November 4, 2009
But for most New Orleanians, the ongoing business dispute between the companies was hardly the most interesting aspect of the trial. The most significant revelations came mostly in pre-trial motions and testimony that laid out the lavish trips and other expenses that one of Mr. St. Pierre’s firms showered on Mr. Meffert, Mayor Ray Nagin and their families at the same time Mr. St. Pierre was cashing in on lucrative city contracts.
The expenses included a Hawaii vacation for the Meffert and Nagin families and trips to Jamaica and Chicago for the mayor and his wife. Mr. Meffert used a credit card billed to a St. Pierre firm to pay for the trips. Mayor Nagin has said he did not know the trips were paid by a city contractor.
Mr. Meffert rang up more than $130,000 in charges to the credit card Mr. St. Pierre provided, including $11,800 in cruise trips and $6,200 at strip clubs. The expenses, and Mr. Meffert’s incestuous relationship with Mr. St. Pierre’s firms, helped explain why the city wasted millions on useless cameras.
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