James Finn

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“The issue is not whether I can make a contempt finding, but whether I should,” said U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles of the Middle District of Louisiana in a Zoom hearing in the case of 43-year-old Ibrahim Mohammed.

A large mural on the corner of E 6th Avenue and 9th Street welcomes visitors to downtown on Thursday, July 17, 2025 in Oakdale, Louisiana.

The program being abused was built to help victims of violent crimes. “What we have here is public corruption on a pretty epic scale,” one U.S. attorney said.

Three years ago, Sean Alfortish was on a comeback run that had brought him home to New Orleans' Fair Grounds.

Three years ago, Sean Alfortish was on a comeback tour of New Orleans’ horse racing scene after a fall from grace. Soon, he would be indicted for murder.

Jury selection began Monday in the second courtroom installment of New Orleans’ staged accidents saga: a murder trial of two men, including the fraud conspiracy’s alleged mastermind, charged with killing

Cornelius Garrison opened his mother’s front door on a warm fall night in 2020, expecting to greet a woman he’d been texting.

The prosecutor, Jordan Ginsberg, had secured an indictment of former New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell that alleged she spent taxpayer money on illicit trips with a paramour.