A federal grand jury on Friday returned an indictment against New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell for… something, Fox 8 reports, writing that “Details of the indictment have not yet been released at this time,” kind of like when it took a day for the charges against George Santos to be made public.
Also like with George Santos, the media has plenty of material to work with on speculating what the charges are in connection to as Fox 8 lists an affair Cantrell had with the head of her security detail, a legal battle with a resident who took pics of them together, another legal battle with the city’s public school district, an alleged Saints tickets bribery scheme, and frequent travel during inopportune times like when all those punks broke out of the city jail and during power outages.
Of course this will become spank material for the right wing media, painting all Black Dem mayors of major cities as corrupt assholes while the national media barely notices RJ May in South Carolina.