Another appeal has been lost by former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin regarding his 2014 corruption conviction.
Nagin is serving a 10-year sentence on charges which include bribery, fraud and money laundering. The charges against Nagin relate to crimes that happened before and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Nagin was mayor from 2002 until 2010.
After his lawyers lost earlier appeals, Nagin acted as his own attorney this time. He asked U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to throw out his conviction. Nagin's motion cited a number of reasons. One of those was Nagin's claim that the Supreme Court overturned a conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell in what he called a "practically identical" case.
The motion was rejected by Milazzo, Monday. According to her order, it noted that the Supreme Court rejected Nagin's earlier appeal months after the McDonnell decision.