Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 10:51 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Jeffrey Vappie changed clothes in the Pontalba apartment that other protectors of Mayor Cantrell rarely if ever entered
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Records contradict new claims by Mayor Cantrell regarding NOPD officer Jeffrey Vappie's time at HANO board meetings
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Scope of requested duties often went beyond security, officers told PIB
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 5:28 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Long hours, big paychecks and little oversight: New recordings shed light on the operations of Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s security detail
Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 5:00 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Officers said they always billed taxpayers for 16 hours while traveling with the mayor, regardless of how long they actually worked.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 10:01 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Prior to Officer Vappie joining the mayor's security team, no officer ever traveled with her. Another member of the team says he doesn't know of any other officer on a public board.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2023 at 10:13 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Officer Vappie was interviewed for nearly four hours and repeatedly referred to Mayor LaToya Cantrell as his supervisor, but it’s clear investigators wanted to know if a more personal relationship existed between the mayor and a member of her executive protection team.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 10:23 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Mayor LaToya Cantrell faces more financial trouble as a national company claims she and her husband refused to pay a $20,000 bill for roof repairs.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 10:05 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
FOX 8 obtains a new document that experts say appears to provide proof that Mayor LaToya Cantrell misused tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 11:53 AM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
A city ordinance from April of 1972 prevents all but one company from getting a permit to sell food on the sidewalks and street corners of the French Quarter.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 10:01 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
The Lafourche Parish coroner has charged taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars each year in addition to his salary. But some sources claim he created a staffing crisis, and is performing extra work himself to pad his paycheck.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 10:10 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
One company picks up trash for about half of New Orleans but gets paid millions less each year than the two other companies that split pickup in the other half of the city. Now, some city leaders say it is time to level the playing field.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 12:06 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Cantrell's Campaign Finance Report, filed just before the deadline, shows she spent $198,000 out of her campaign account in 2022.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 4:52 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Kenner and IV Waste are now locked in a legal battle.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 11:06 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Only one pushcart food vendor currently is permitted on the streets of the French Quarter
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 11:49 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Former NOPD officers and Police Association of New Orleans attorney Eric Hessler accuse the NOPD’s public integrity bureau of lopsided investigations and inconsistent enforcement of policies.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 5:02 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Stella Cziment wrote a letter warning of potential conflicts regarding the NOPD’s internal investigation into Officer Jeffrey Vappie's timesheets.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 5:05 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Mayor LaToya Cantrell provided hardly any details about what members of her executive protection team are doing while logging long work days, sometimes nowhere near her.
Zurik: Mayor Cantrell allowed family members to use city-owned Upper Pontalba apartment, emails show
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 10:54 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
New Orleans taxpayers own one of the units in the Upper Pontalba Apartments, but newly obtained emails appear to show Mayor LaToya Cantrell using the unit as a guest house for family members.
Zurik: Mayor Cantrell’s security detail sometimes outnumbered those policing an entire NOPD district
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 10:24 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Records show Mayor Cantrell's protection officers on the clock in New Orleans even when she was out of state or in France
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 5:01 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Mayor Cantrell recall petition needs fewer signatures than originally thought.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 10:01 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
FOX 8 combed through hundreds of pages of documents to find officers clocking long hours, even when they’re nowhere near Mayor Cantrell.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 6:11 AM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
"It’s not fair. It’s an unlevel playing field. How can you expect Mr. Richard at $13.75 a can to compete with other contractors who are getting $23 to $28 a can? You just can’t, because those other companies can pay their people more money."
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 10:04 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
A former trash contractor for the city of New Orleans believes LaToya Cantrell's administration may have orchestrated the recent trash crisis in order to move the trash contract out of his company's hands.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 4:02 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
New details of a divorce petition obtained by Fox 8 imply New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was involved in an extramarital affair with Officer Jeffrey Vappie.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 10:04 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Sources tell Fox 8 the FBI now is asking about Mayor LaToya Cantrell's schedule, use of a city-owned apartment and her time spent with a member of her security detail.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 10:30 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Mayor LaToya Cantrell claims her use of a city-owned apartment is in line with past mayors. But now former Mayor Marc Morial says he never used the apartment the way Cantrell is utilizing it.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 10:27 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Mayor Cantrell could be writing another check to taxpayers after the city reviews more of her 2022 travel accommodations.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 10:56 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
New records obtained by FOX 8 have a crime watchdog calling for Mayor Cantrell to speak with investigators about how she and a member of her executive protection team spend time and taxpayer money. The city first denied a FOX 8 public records request for the documents but handed them over after a FOX 8 attorney threatened to sue if the records weren't immediately released.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 12:21 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
After a Fox 8 attorney got involved, the City of New Orleans released public documents Wednesday (Nov. 23) it initially refused to hand over.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 10:03 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
A political analyst and a crime watchdog believe Mayor Cantrell may have violated city policy with room upgrades, paid for by taxpayers, during her travel.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 5:30 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
David Bernard is leaving FOX 8 to pursue a new career path, handing the reigns to new Chief Meteorologist Bruce Katz. He promises while he won't be on TV anymore, people will still see him around town.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:11 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik, Ken Daley and Dannah Sauer
Clothing purchases on the mayor's behalf dating to 2017 are being scrutinized by the FBI, according to Fox 8 sources.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:01 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Mayor Cantrell has spent weeks traveling the country and globe this year, and has come under intense scrutiny as taxpayers foot the bill. Now, there are new questions about who is traveling with her, and when , and where Cantrell chooses to have security.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 10:47 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
FOX 8 reviewed Mayor Cantrell’s calendar for the past three years. Our findings lead two political analysts to conclude the mayor might not be working as much as taxpayers may expect.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 5:03 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Sources say the Inspector General is looking into whether the mayor has been utilizing the apartment for personal use, which would be a violation of a city policy
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 10:02 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Crime watchdog calls for broader NOPD investigation into the time Officer Jeffery Vappie logs on his timesheets.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 10:05 PM CST
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Surveillance video raises questions about how Mayor Cantrell is spending her time and taxpayer money outside the office.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Report details the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office's investigation into the unfounded allegations that a member of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office was following and photographing Mayor Cantrell.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 12:56 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Allegations surfaced that Deputy Greg Malveaux, who serves as security for Council President Helena Moreno, was following her and taking pictures. Because of those allegations, Sheriff Susan Hutson temporarily reassigned Malveaux until the sheriff’s investigation declared the allegations “unfounded.”
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 10:01 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
In Louisiana, a judge can rule that a municipality owes a plaintiff money, but despite that, the municipality never has to pay. New data shows it is mainly a New Orleans problem.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 5:30 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
David Bernard has decided to leave FOX 8 to pursue a career change. He's going back to school to become a social worker.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 4:24 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
An investigation launched by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office into a longtime city council security aide found no evidence to back up claims Deputy Greg Malveaux stalked or surveilled Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Six days after an Orleans Parish deputy was reassigned over an allegation that he stalked Mayor LaToya Cantrell, the Mayor has been unwilling to back up the allegations.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 6:54 AM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Sheriff Susan Hutson says she doesn’t address personnel matters, as questions mount over her decision to reassign a deputy.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2022 at 10:24 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Council President Helena Moreno believes Mayor LaToya Cantrell is trying to retaliate against her and says a member of her team has been wrongly dragged into the fight.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 at 7:54 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
A day after the NOPD demoted a Captain who was caught double-dipping, a law professor says he believes the punishment didn't go far enough
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 4:37 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
A two-month-long FOX 8 investigation finds New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is possibly breaking city policy and maybe even state law, spending much of her time at a city-owned apartment, possibly without paying rent.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 11:12 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
A crime watchdog says invoices raise more questions about former Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office employee Timothy David Ray's pay before he was fired.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 10:27 PM CDT
|By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer
Sheriff Susan Hutson has fired her Chief Communications Officer Timothy David Ray, following FOX 8's investigations into his contract & invoices. The sheriff says the contract termination came after a draft opinion from the State Ethics Board that Ray's hiring violated state ethics laws.
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