Six More Charged In Orleans City Hall Probe

"Court hearings were scheduled Wednesday for four men indicted as part of the investigation into corruption at City Hall under former Mayor Marc Morial's administration.

A city contract with a Milwaukee-based company, Johnson Controls, remains at the center of the investigation, which resulted earlier this year in grand jury indictments against four people with ties to Morial or his administration — restaurateur and Morial friend Stan "Pampy" Barre; Kerry De Cay, the director of property management under Morial; and subcontractors Reginald Walker and Julius Lips Jr.." |Read more