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LaToya Cantrell, Mayor of New Orleans speaks during the 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 07, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for ESSENCE) Expand

A federal grand jury indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Friday.

The indictment is the culmination of a long-running federal corruption investigation into Cantrell, the first female mayor in the city’s 300-year history.

Latoya Cantrell indicted

What we know:

Cantrell’s lawyer, Eddie Castaing, confirmed to The Associated Press that an indictment was returned. He said her name was read aloud by a federal magistrate judge as a defendant.

WWL reports that the federal investigation began in early 2024 and led to the i

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