Feds May be Zeroing in on Ray Nagin

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The U.S. attorney's office has reportedly issued subpoenas seeking missing e-mail messages involving Nagin and a number of other people tied to New Orleans' technology office. A firm hired by the Nagin administration to find the missing e-mails subsequently turned over some of what it had uncovered.

Here's some background from the newspaper:

Nagin took office in May 2002 and promptly created the position of chief technology officer, to which he named [Gregory] Meffert. Though Meffert left City Hall in 2006, it emerged earlier this year that he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in lavish trips and other gratuities while at City Hall from a company owned by [Mark] St. Pierre. St. Pierre, a friend of Meffert's who worked for him before Meffert joined New Orleans government, managed a firm that essentially ran the city's technology office. St. Pierre also paid for trips for Nagin and his family.