NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The New Orleans City Council held a 20 minute meeting on Friday (9/5) with a simple message on federal housing money: “Nothing is expected to change.”
The council meeting came after U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner posted two letters on X announcing Mayor LaToya Cantrell and former NOPD bodyguard Jeffrey Vappie were suspended from signing federal contracts.
The letter referenced their criminal wire fraud indictments. Both Cantrell and Vappie face wire fraud charges…