Ray Nagin

Who is Ray Nagin?

Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr., also known as C. Ray Nagin, is an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana. He was formerly a management consultant and the 60th mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 2002 to 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Nagin was first elected as mayor in March 2002. He was re-elected in 2006 even though the election was held with at least two-thirds of New Orleans citizens still displaced after Katrina struck. His term was limited by law and he left office on May 3, 2010.

After leaving office, Nagin founded CRN Initiatives LLC, a firm that focuses on emergency preparedness, green energy product development, publishing, and public speaking. He wrote and self-published Katrina Secrets: Storms after the Storms.

In 2014, Nagin was convicted on twenty of twenty-one charges of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering related to bribes from city contractors before and after Hurricane Katrina and was sentenced to ten years in federal prison.