New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell Friday (August 15) Fiscal prosecutors asked for the year to hide his romantic relationship with his bodyguard. Jeffrey Vappie. It's not from one hook to another! The prosecutors accuse the collection of this Bodyguard check, even in private Cantrrel traveling to apartments and vineyards.

The city of New Orleans said he was aware of the accusation and is reviewing the mayor's lawyer.

"Until his review is over, the city will not comment on this issue," the statement said.

Mayor Latoya Cantrell did not send messages in the official social network of X Xn. At the time, the city said the city was declining in crimes.

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New Orleans Mayor & Bodyguard charges

Mayor Katrell has charges for conspiracy, fraud and obstacles. This is less than five months due to the limits of the period before the office left. It was the first mayor of 300 years of New Orleans and was chosen twice. However, it becomes the first mayor of the city to be loaded in the office.

"Public corruption has been years old and years," said Michael Simpson said the US lawyer, referring to the famous history of Louisiana. "And that's very significant."

Cantrell's Bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, was already loading wire scam and loading false statements. Guilty is not guilty. A great jury returned an indictment against a number of 18, adding Latoya Cantrell case.

The Mayor of New Orleans and VAPI said that the relationship was very professional, but he figured out the prosecution "personal and intimate".

Cantrell & Vappie exchanged more than 15k Whatsapp Messages

The prosecutors allegedly exchanged the secrets that they exchanged more than 15,000 encrypted messages to perceive it through WhatsApp and delete conversations. Messages made the citizens to pursue, to eliminate evidence, false statements to fbi agents and "ultimately in front of a federal jury," said Simpson prosecutor.

The accusation says whatsapp in Exchange, Vappie goes to Cantrell in October 20021. That was "where it started." They met in an apartment while Vappie claimed duty, and he organized 14 trips to go, Simpson said. Travel, he added prosecutors "when they were really alone."

The couple spent $ 70,000 on the city funds in the trip

New Orleans taxpayers paid more than $ 70,000 for VAPPIE Travels, Prosecutor said.

The authorities mentioned September 2022 in the Marta vineyard, Cantrell took it to Miami instead of going to a conference. Traveling to Vappie Island covered the city to talk on his own. "We really (traveling) is the most who throws me," the mayor wrote him that month.
Simpson said Cantrell would automatically delete messages in 2021 when he activated a function on your phone.
When a private citizen took food and drinking wine, Cantrell presented the police report and sought the order to hold, Simpson said.
VAPPIE retired from the Police Department in 2024.
The mayor has his advocates
Cantrell and the rest of the allies said that he was unfair as black women and maintained another standard than male officials. Simpson, however, shook that it was any role.
"It doesn't matter that it's romance or female," said journalists, allegations, "he was a tremendous confidence in their government."
Cantrell, a Democrat, has collided with the council members in the second confusing term and effort to remind you of 2022 survivors.
"The new day is for the people of New Orleans," Monet Brignac, a spokesperson for President JP Morrell said as reported the expansion of the prosecution.
In 2014, New Orleans New Ray Nagin established a 10-year prison sentence, money laundering, fraud and tax crimes. Loads of debt from 2002 to 2010 as a mayor from its two terms. It was given to the release of prison in 2020 in the Covid-19 pandemic.
While he went to the office in his last months, Cantrell has alienated before the first confidence and assistant, and his civic profile has retreated. His early achievements were ecliped by self-inflicted wounds and bitter feude with enemies, political instructors. The role of the mayor has weakened the city's letter after the voters allowed to stop its authority.
This year, Cantrell said "Very contemptible, offensive, in some cases in some cases in a simple way. His husband, Jason Cantrell, died in 2023.

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Associated Press Writers Jim Mustian, Jackh Brook, Heather Hollingsworth and Ed White helped this story through AP news.