President Donald Trump is suspending New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and former New Orleans Police Department officer Jeffrey Vappie from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s funding procurement process weeks after the pair were indicted on fraud and obstruction of justice charges.

The Justice Department indicted Cantrell and Vappie on Aug. 15 over what the federal government referred to as “years-long” effort to defraud New Orleans residents and the city’s police department and cover up a romantic relationship the two developed while Vappie served as a member of Cantrell’s protective detail.

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