Convicted Felons Profit From Contracts In New Orleans

Only in New Orleans can a convicted felon profit financially from city contracts while the convicted felon awaits sentencing from looting from other city contracts. This is how the scheme works:

1. You get rich under New Orleans' city contracts.
2. You receive a plea bargain for stealing from one contract.
3. As a result of your plea bargain, your sentence is reduced.
4. You transfer ownership of your business to your wife, thus she now holds the interest in your other questionable city contracts.
5. When you go to prison, your wife still collects from the city contracts.
6. Any fines you have to pay are paid with proceeds from the city contracts that is still under you and your wife's control.
7. When you get out of prison, you are able to go on with your life, from the proceeds that your wife was collecting, from the city contracts while you were in prison.

Only in New Orleans could such a thing happen. Although the City of New Orleans has hired a new Inspector General, he too feels that the City is stuck with this arrangement. As a result, New Orleans' politics will never change.